Punjab Prisons

Aam Aadmi Party leader and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday said that if his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal is sent to jail, they will approach the court seeking permission to set up his office in prison to run his government from t

The superintendent of the Dibrugarh Central Jail was arrested Thursday night over a major prison breach last month, in which several electronic gadgets were seized from the inmates belonging to the separatist group 'Waris Punjab De'.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court directed the additional director general of prisons in Punjab on Thursday to file an affidavit after it came to know that there was not much headway in a matter related to a television interview of Lawrence Bishnoi.

The NHRC has sent notices to the Punjab government and the state's prison chief over a report that claims 42 per cent of prisoners in its jails are "drug addicts," officials said on Friday.

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has been provided with a slew of new facilities at Attock District Jail and expressed his satisfaction over them to a top police officer during his visit to the prison in the Punjab province.

Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, an UN-designated terrorist who trained the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) attackers for the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, died in a prison in Pakistan's Punjab province while serving a sentence for terror financing.

Radical preacher and 'Waris Punjab De' chief Amritpal Singh, who is lodged at the Dibrugarh Central Jail along with his associates following their arrest in Punjab, has said he is in 'chardi kala' (high spirits) in prison

Security has been increased in Dibrugarh as pro-Khalistan radical preacher Amritpal Singh will be shifted to a prison in the Upper Assam town from Punjab on Sunday, police said.

A video clip surfaced on Sunday purportedly showing a group of gangsters lodged in a jail in Punjab's Tarn Taran "celebrating" the killing of two rival gang members accused in the Sidhu Moosewala murder case inside the prison last week.

Around 30 cops were injured and several vehicles damaged as protesters seeking the release of Sikh prisoners countrywide clashed with them while trying to reach Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's official residence in neighbouring Chandigarh.

Four persons, including two jail inmates, were arrested for running an inter-state pharmaceutical drug cartel from a prison, police said on Tuesday.

The Punjab Prisons Department today suspended a Patiala jail deputy superintendent of police (security) and three other officials after an inmate escaped from a government hospital.

The visits -- allowed for prisoners exhibiting good conduct -- will last for two hours and the department has designated a separate room with an attached bathroom, the official said.

The post tagged Mr Bains and Punjab Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav and appealed to them to shift Bobby Malhotra, Saraj Sandhu, and Jagroshan Hundal from Bathinda jail and inquire into the matter.

An inmate at a jail here accused some officials of branding the word "gangster" in Punjabi on his back with a hot iron rod, a charge denied by the prison authorities.

Aam Aadmi Party leader and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday said that if his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal is sent to jail, they will approach the court seeking permission to set up his office in prison to run his government from t

The superintendent of the Dibrugarh Central Jail was arrested Thursday night over a major prison breach last month, in which several electronic gadgets were seized from the inmates belonging to the separatist group 'Waris Punjab De'.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court directed the additional director general of prisons in Punjab on Thursday to file an affidavit after it came to know that there was not much headway in a matter related to a television interview of Lawrence Bishnoi.

The NHRC has sent notices to the Punjab government and the state's prison chief over a report that claims 42 per cent of prisoners in its jails are "drug addicts," officials said on Friday.

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has been provided with a slew of new facilities at Attock District Jail and expressed his satisfaction over them to a top police officer during his visit to the prison in the Punjab province.

Hafiz Abdul Salam Bhuttavi, an UN-designated terrorist who trained the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) attackers for the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, died in a prison in Pakistan's Punjab province while serving a sentence for terror financing.

Radical preacher and 'Waris Punjab De' chief Amritpal Singh, who is lodged at the Dibrugarh Central Jail along with his associates following their arrest in Punjab, has said he is in 'chardi kala' (high spirits) in prison

Security has been increased in Dibrugarh as pro-Khalistan radical preacher Amritpal Singh will be shifted to a prison in the Upper Assam town from Punjab on Sunday, police said.

A video clip surfaced on Sunday purportedly showing a group of gangsters lodged in a jail in Punjab's Tarn Taran "celebrating" the killing of two rival gang members accused in the Sidhu Moosewala murder case inside the prison last week.

Around 30 cops were injured and several vehicles damaged as protesters seeking the release of Sikh prisoners countrywide clashed with them while trying to reach Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's official residence in neighbouring Chandigarh.

Four persons, including two jail inmates, were arrested for running an inter-state pharmaceutical drug cartel from a prison, police said on Tuesday.

The Punjab Prisons Department today suspended a Patiala jail deputy superintendent of police (security) and three other officials after an inmate escaped from a government hospital.

The visits -- allowed for prisoners exhibiting good conduct -- will last for two hours and the department has designated a separate room with an attached bathroom, the official said.

The post tagged Mr Bains and Punjab Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav and appealed to them to shift Bobby Malhotra, Saraj Sandhu, and Jagroshan Hundal from Bathinda jail and inquire into the matter.

An inmate at a jail here accused some officials of branding the word "gangster" in Punjabi on his back with a hot iron rod, a charge denied by the prison authorities.