Tihar Jail Inmates

A 29-year-old prisoner was stabbed to death by another inmate inside Delhi's Tihar Jail, officials said on Friday. The victim, who worked as a 'sewadar', was allegedly attacked inside Jail Number 3 after a dispute over food.

In a suspected gang war and fight for supremacy inside the prison, two groups of inmates clashed inside Tihar's jail number 3, an official said on Thursday, adding that four inmates sustained injuries.

Around 700 inmates are employed and 1,200 more are presently getting training to work in various sectors after coming out of jail, Tihar's Director General (prisons) Sanjay Baniwal said.

The Delhi Prisons Department has procured 10 non-linear junction detectors from a US-based firm to detect mobile phones and metal objects hidden inside jails by inmates, officials said on Saturday.

The Delhi Prisons Department has initiated the process of procuring electric shock batons, pepper sprays and other non-lethal weapons to be used by prison personnel to quell inmate brawls inside jails.

Days after he allegedly bypassed authorities and moved two inmates to the cell of former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain, the Tihar jail administration has transferred Rajesh Chaudhary, the superintendent of jail number 7.

All six inmates of Tihar Jail arrested in connection with the killing of jailed gangster Tillu Tajpuriya were on Friday taken to the Forensic Science Laboratory in Rohini as part of the investigation, police said.

The attackers of dreaded gangster Tillu Tajpuriya in Delhi's Tihar jail fashioned knives out of an exhaust fan, used bedsheets to climb down a floor and barged into his cell to beat him to death, police sources have told NDTV.

The killing of a second gangster in less than a month inside the Tihar jail here has once again put a serious question mark on the security at one of the largest prisons in Asia.

An associate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was killed in an attack by rival gang members inside Tihar Jail on Friday evening, according to officials.

As many as 23 surgical blades, drugs, smartphones and a SIM card were recovered from an inmate in Tihar jail, prison officials said on Friday.

AAP national spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj on Wednesday alleged that party leader Manish Sisodia is being kept with other inmates in jail and has been refused the 'Vipassana' cell.

Liquor policy scam case accused and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia is lodged in a Tihar prison cell for senior citizens and like any other inmate, has been given basic items and is being served food as per the prison manual.

The NHRC has issued notices to the Delhi government and the director general of Prisons over reports that a prisoner was sexually assaulted by fellow inmates in Tihar Jail, officials said on Monday.

He was earlier seen getting a massage by a man inside his cell, and chatting with other inmates, none of which is allowed inside the prison. He was also seen eating fruit salad, bringing his complaint on food quality in jail under question.

A 29-year-old prisoner was stabbed to death by another inmate inside Delhi's Tihar Jail, officials said on Friday. The victim, who worked as a 'sewadar', was allegedly attacked inside Jail Number 3 after a dispute over food.

In a suspected gang war and fight for supremacy inside the prison, two groups of inmates clashed inside Tihar's jail number 3, an official said on Thursday, adding that four inmates sustained injuries.

Around 700 inmates are employed and 1,200 more are presently getting training to work in various sectors after coming out of jail, Tihar's Director General (prisons) Sanjay Baniwal said.

The Delhi Prisons Department has procured 10 non-linear junction detectors from a US-based firm to detect mobile phones and metal objects hidden inside jails by inmates, officials said on Saturday.

The Delhi Prisons Department has initiated the process of procuring electric shock batons, pepper sprays and other non-lethal weapons to be used by prison personnel to quell inmate brawls inside jails.

Days after he allegedly bypassed authorities and moved two inmates to the cell of former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain, the Tihar jail administration has transferred Rajesh Chaudhary, the superintendent of jail number 7.

All six inmates of Tihar Jail arrested in connection with the killing of jailed gangster Tillu Tajpuriya were on Friday taken to the Forensic Science Laboratory in Rohini as part of the investigation, police said.

The attackers of dreaded gangster Tillu Tajpuriya in Delhi's Tihar jail fashioned knives out of an exhaust fan, used bedsheets to climb down a floor and barged into his cell to beat him to death, police sources have told NDTV.

The killing of a second gangster in less than a month inside the Tihar jail here has once again put a serious question mark on the security at one of the largest prisons in Asia.

An associate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was killed in an attack by rival gang members inside Tihar Jail on Friday evening, according to officials.

As many as 23 surgical blades, drugs, smartphones and a SIM card were recovered from an inmate in Tihar jail, prison officials said on Friday.

AAP national spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj on Wednesday alleged that party leader Manish Sisodia is being kept with other inmates in jail and has been refused the 'Vipassana' cell.

Liquor policy scam case accused and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia is lodged in a Tihar prison cell for senior citizens and like any other inmate, has been given basic items and is being served food as per the prison manual.

The NHRC has issued notices to the Delhi government and the director general of Prisons over reports that a prisoner was sexually assaulted by fellow inmates in Tihar Jail, officials said on Monday.

He was earlier seen getting a massage by a man inside his cell, and chatting with other inmates, none of which is allowed inside the prison. He was also seen eating fruit salad, bringing his complaint on food quality in jail under question.