Prisons In India

A prison in Haridwar staged the Ramlila on Friday evening to impart a lesson to its inmates on the victory of good over evil, only to see evil prevail when two prisoners playing the part of 'vaanars' used the event to stage a jailbreak.

Five undertrial prisoners, charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, escaped from a prison in Assam after breaking rods and scaling a 20-foot wall using bedsheets, blankets and 'lungis'.

The BJP has a new MLA in Haryana's Dadri - Sunil Sangwan, the ex-Haryana prison official who granted parole - six times - to Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim.

In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday banned caste-based discrimination like division of manual labour, segregation of barracks and bias against prisoners of de-notified tribes and habitual offenders.

The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was released on Wednesday after two years behind bars in Tehran's Evin prison, media outlets in the Islamic republic reported.

Two days after he was granted bail and walked out of prison after six months, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched an all-out attack against the Narendra Modi government and said it was more dictatorial than the British.

The jailer of the Ballari Prison has warned the Kannada actor Darshan not to create any fuss over facilities provided to him inside the prison.

Arvind Kejriwal bail Live: The Aam Aadmi Party leader can now leave jail - after nearly six months in prison without a trial - after having secured bail in a case filed by the Enforcement Directorate.

Accusing her family of lodging false kidnapping and rape cases against her husband who allegedly committed suicide in jail, a woman on Monday said they had eloped and got married. She claimed her husband was "killed" in prison.

An underworld don serving life sentence in the Almora district jail was offered 'diksha' by seers in the prison premises recently to initiate him into monkhood, claimed a man who mediated between the don and the seers.

A Singapore court on Friday sentenced two Malaysian nationals of Indian descent to 10 months in prison for attempting to smuggle a fellow citizen out of the country by concealing him in the cargo compartment of a truck.

The BJP has named former prison official Sunil Sangwan - who granted Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Ram Rahim parole six times - on its list of candidates for next month's Haryana Assembly election.

The prisons in Madhya Pradesh are facing a severe crisis in health services, with a staggering 72.4 per cent positions of doctors and 47.4 per cent positions of other medical staff remaining vacant.

A former Indian national yoga instructor was on Friday sentenced to 23 months in prison and four strokes of the cane for molesting three women while conducting classes with them.

BRS MLC K Kavitha, who returned to Hyderabad following her release from Delhi's Tihar prison after the Supreme Court granted her bail in excise policy case, met her father and former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday.

A prison in Haridwar staged the Ramlila on Friday evening to impart a lesson to its inmates on the victory of good over evil, only to see evil prevail when two prisoners playing the part of 'vaanars' used the event to stage a jailbreak.

Five undertrial prisoners, charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, escaped from a prison in Assam after breaking rods and scaling a 20-foot wall using bedsheets, blankets and 'lungis'.

The BJP has a new MLA in Haryana's Dadri - Sunil Sangwan, the ex-Haryana prison official who granted parole - six times - to Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim.

In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday banned caste-based discrimination like division of manual labour, segregation of barracks and bias against prisoners of de-notified tribes and habitual offenders.

The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was released on Wednesday after two years behind bars in Tehran's Evin prison, media outlets in the Islamic republic reported.

Two days after he was granted bail and walked out of prison after six months, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched an all-out attack against the Narendra Modi government and said it was more dictatorial than the British.

The jailer of the Ballari Prison has warned the Kannada actor Darshan not to create any fuss over facilities provided to him inside the prison.

Arvind Kejriwal bail Live: The Aam Aadmi Party leader can now leave jail - after nearly six months in prison without a trial - after having secured bail in a case filed by the Enforcement Directorate.

Accusing her family of lodging false kidnapping and rape cases against her husband who allegedly committed suicide in jail, a woman on Monday said they had eloped and got married. She claimed her husband was "killed" in prison.

An underworld don serving life sentence in the Almora district jail was offered 'diksha' by seers in the prison premises recently to initiate him into monkhood, claimed a man who mediated between the don and the seers.

A Singapore court on Friday sentenced two Malaysian nationals of Indian descent to 10 months in prison for attempting to smuggle a fellow citizen out of the country by concealing him in the cargo compartment of a truck.

The BJP has named former prison official Sunil Sangwan - who granted Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Ram Rahim parole six times - on its list of candidates for next month's Haryana Assembly election.

The prisons in Madhya Pradesh are facing a severe crisis in health services, with a staggering 72.4 per cent positions of doctors and 47.4 per cent positions of other medical staff remaining vacant.

A former Indian national yoga instructor was on Friday sentenced to 23 months in prison and four strokes of the cane for molesting three women while conducting classes with them.

BRS MLC K Kavitha, who returned to Hyderabad following her release from Delhi's Tihar prison after the Supreme Court granted her bail in excise policy case, met her father and former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday.