Sabarmati Prison

Gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad, who was sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment in the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case by a court in Prayagraj today, will be taken back to Sabarmati Central Jail in Gujarat, a senior prison official said.

Atiq Ahmed: A convoy bringing gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed from Gujarat reached Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj this evening, where he will be kept in a prison.

Some 3,000 inmates of Gujarat's Sabarmati Central Jail got a Gandhi Jayanti gift on Friday with authorities starting a dedicated radio station for them.

The Gujarat High Court has decided a set of appeals challenging convictions and acquittals in the case of the burning of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra in 2002, which triggered massive communal riots across the state of Gujarat in which more than 1,000 people were killed.

The Gujarat High Court on Monday rejected the bail plea of Vismay Shah, awarded a five-year jail term by a lower court in a 2013 BMW hit-and-run case, even as his lawyer cited the case of superstar Salman Khan who was given the relief in a similar incident in Mumbai.

DG Vanzara, the controversial former Gujarat police officer charged with multiple cases of fake encounters, says his release from jail is not a political quid pro quo.

Suspended Gujarat cadre IPS officer DG Vanzara, who has been behind bars for the past seven years in connection with fake encounter cases, today retired after 34 years of service.

A junior jail superintendent of the Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad has been suspended in connection with the conspiracy of a jailbreak attempt by 14 accused of 2008 serial bomb blast.

Sabarmati prison staff were today under the scanner of the cops investigating the daring jailbreak attempt by serial blasts accused amid questions how iron rods and the jail map found its way into the barrack and the tunnel digging work went undetected for two months.

An 18-foot tunnel has been discovered at the Sabarmati prison in Ahmedabad.

In a first, the Gujarat High Court has launched an online bail application system, made available to all convicts and undertrial prisoners of Sabarmati Central jail from today.

Gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad, who was sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment in the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case by a court in Prayagraj today, will be taken back to Sabarmati Central Jail in Gujarat, a senior prison official said.

Atiq Ahmed: A convoy bringing gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed from Gujarat reached Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj this evening, where he will be kept in a prison.

Some 3,000 inmates of Gujarat's Sabarmati Central Jail got a Gandhi Jayanti gift on Friday with authorities starting a dedicated radio station for them.

The Gujarat High Court has decided a set of appeals challenging convictions and acquittals in the case of the burning of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra in 2002, which triggered massive communal riots across the state of Gujarat in which more than 1,000 people were killed.

The Gujarat High Court on Monday rejected the bail plea of Vismay Shah, awarded a five-year jail term by a lower court in a 2013 BMW hit-and-run case, even as his lawyer cited the case of superstar Salman Khan who was given the relief in a similar incident in Mumbai.

DG Vanzara, the controversial former Gujarat police officer charged with multiple cases of fake encounters, says his release from jail is not a political quid pro quo.

Suspended Gujarat cadre IPS officer DG Vanzara, who has been behind bars for the past seven years in connection with fake encounter cases, today retired after 34 years of service.

A junior jail superintendent of the Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad has been suspended in connection with the conspiracy of a jailbreak attempt by 14 accused of 2008 serial bomb blast.

Sabarmati prison staff were today under the scanner of the cops investigating the daring jailbreak attempt by serial blasts accused amid questions how iron rods and the jail map found its way into the barrack and the tunnel digging work went undetected for two months.

An 18-foot tunnel has been discovered at the Sabarmati prison in Ahmedabad.

In a first, the Gujarat High Court has launched an online bail application system, made available to all convicts and undertrial prisoners of Sabarmati Central jail from today.