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Mutton Biryani, Chicken Curry: Durga Puja Menu For Bengal Prisoners
The changed menu for inmates - both convicts and undertrials - for lunch and dinner would be effective from Sasthi (October 9) to Dashami (October 12), covering the beginning and end of Durga puja, he said.
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62 Babies Born In West Bengal Jails In Last 4 Years, Court Told
Sixty-two babies were born in West Bengal jails over the last four years and most of the women inmates who gave birth to them were expecting when brought to prison, the Supreme Court has been informed.
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Women Getting Pregnant In Bengal Jails, 196 Babies Born: High Court Told
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered transfer to a criminal division bench of a matter in which the amicus curiae claimed that some women prisoners lodged in West Bengal's correctional homes were getting pregnant and 196 babies
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Notice To Centre, 11 States On Plea Claiming Caste Discrimination In Jails
The Supreme Court today sought responses from the Centre and 11 states, including Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, on a PIL alleging that the prison manuals of these states encourage caste-based discrimination in jails.
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Cops Accused Of Torture After Undertrial Prisoner Dies In Custody In Bengal
A 25-year-old man who was in judicial custody died in a hospital on Saturday, prompting a group of people in Panchla area of West Bengal's Howrah district to block a road alleging that he died because of torture.
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Jailed Over Dollar Printouts, Bengal Photographer's Nepal Nightmare
A trip to Nepal has turned into a nightmare for a photographer from West Bengal as he ended up in prison for allegedly carrying jpeg image printouts of USD 100 notes, which he would have "needed there for shooting a short film".
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Coronavirus: Vandalism In Bengal Jail By Prisoners Demanding Bail Amid COVID-19
A section of inmates at the Jalpaiguri correctional home in West Bengal held a violent protest on Saturday, demanding that they be granted bail in the wake of coronavirus outbreak, officials said.
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Official Thrashed As Prisoners Turn Violent In West Bengal's Baruipur Jail
A jail official was trashed as he tried to stop violent clashes between two groups of inmates of the Baruipur correctional home in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, officials said on Tuesday.
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"Echo Manmohan Singh's Words": Mamata Banerjee To Centre On "Vendetta"
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today borrowed former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's "advice" as she accused the government of diverting attention from the state of the economy.
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"Will Go To Jail Fighting": Mamata Banerjee Attacks BJP At Kolkata Rally
In a throwback to her signature 'mercurial' avatar, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today exhorted the people to "break down the prison walls put up by the BJP" in the country and said that she will not be intimidated by the threat of being sent to jail. "Today they are calling my brother, tomorrow they will call me. I am ready for that....
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West Bengal Prisons to Have Video Conferencing Facilities
Correctional homes in West Bengal are all set to have video-conferencing facilities to prevent undertrial prisoners from escaping on way to courts.
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3 Sentenced to Life for Killing Minor Who Protested Sister's Harassment in Bengal
Three men were been sentenced to life in prison today in West Bengal's Barasat for fatally stabbing to death a 16-year-old boy who had tried to stop them from harassing his sister. The three sentenced convicts are Mithun Das, Biswanath Chattopadhyay and Monojit Biswas.
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13 Get 20 Years in Prison for Ordering Gangrape of Tribal Girl in Bengal
A court in West Bengal has sentenced 13 people to 20 years in prison over the gang-rape of a tribal girl at Labhpur village in the state's Birbhum district in January this year.
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Three Prisoners Escape From Kolkata Jail
Three prisoners, including a murder convict, escaped from the city's Alipore Central Correctional Home today, a West Bengal minister said.
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Saradha Group chairman Sudipto Sen sentenced to three years imprisonment in chit fund case
Saradha Group chairman Sudipto Sen was sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment by a Bidhannagar court today in a provident fund default case, making it Sen's first conviction in a slew of cases involving a multi-crore chit fund scam.
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Mutton Biryani, Chicken Curry: Durga Puja Menu For Bengal Prisoners
The changed menu for inmates - both convicts and undertrials - for lunch and dinner would be effective from Sasthi (October 9) to Dashami (October 12), covering the beginning and end of Durga puja, he said.
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62 Babies Born In West Bengal Jails In Last 4 Years, Court Told
Sixty-two babies were born in West Bengal jails over the last four years and most of the women inmates who gave birth to them were expecting when brought to prison, the Supreme Court has been informed.
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Women Getting Pregnant In Bengal Jails, 196 Babies Born: High Court Told
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered transfer to a criminal division bench of a matter in which the amicus curiae claimed that some women prisoners lodged in West Bengal's correctional homes were getting pregnant and 196 babies
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Notice To Centre, 11 States On Plea Claiming Caste Discrimination In Jails
The Supreme Court today sought responses from the Centre and 11 states, including Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, on a PIL alleging that the prison manuals of these states encourage caste-based discrimination in jails.
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Cops Accused Of Torture After Undertrial Prisoner Dies In Custody In Bengal
A 25-year-old man who was in judicial custody died in a hospital on Saturday, prompting a group of people in Panchla area of West Bengal's Howrah district to block a road alleging that he died because of torture.
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Jailed Over Dollar Printouts, Bengal Photographer's Nepal Nightmare
A trip to Nepal has turned into a nightmare for a photographer from West Bengal as he ended up in prison for allegedly carrying jpeg image printouts of USD 100 notes, which he would have "needed there for shooting a short film".
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Coronavirus: Vandalism In Bengal Jail By Prisoners Demanding Bail Amid COVID-19
A section of inmates at the Jalpaiguri correctional home in West Bengal held a violent protest on Saturday, demanding that they be granted bail in the wake of coronavirus outbreak, officials said.
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Official Thrashed As Prisoners Turn Violent In West Bengal's Baruipur Jail
A jail official was trashed as he tried to stop violent clashes between two groups of inmates of the Baruipur correctional home in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, officials said on Tuesday.
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"Echo Manmohan Singh's Words": Mamata Banerjee To Centre On "Vendetta"
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today borrowed former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's "advice" as she accused the government of diverting attention from the state of the economy.
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"Will Go To Jail Fighting": Mamata Banerjee Attacks BJP At Kolkata Rally
In a throwback to her signature 'mercurial' avatar, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today exhorted the people to "break down the prison walls put up by the BJP" in the country and said that she will not be intimidated by the threat of being sent to jail. "Today they are calling my brother, tomorrow they will call me. I am ready for that....
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West Bengal Prisons to Have Video Conferencing Facilities
Correctional homes in West Bengal are all set to have video-conferencing facilities to prevent undertrial prisoners from escaping on way to courts.
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3 Sentenced to Life for Killing Minor Who Protested Sister's Harassment in Bengal
Three men were been sentenced to life in prison today in West Bengal's Barasat for fatally stabbing to death a 16-year-old boy who had tried to stop them from harassing his sister. The three sentenced convicts are Mithun Das, Biswanath Chattopadhyay and Monojit Biswas.
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13 Get 20 Years in Prison for Ordering Gangrape of Tribal Girl in Bengal
A court in West Bengal has sentenced 13 people to 20 years in prison over the gang-rape of a tribal girl at Labhpur village in the state's Birbhum district in January this year.
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Three Prisoners Escape From Kolkata Jail
Three prisoners, including a murder convict, escaped from the city's Alipore Central Correctional Home today, a West Bengal minister said.
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Saradha Group chairman Sudipto Sen sentenced to three years imprisonment in chit fund case
Saradha Group chairman Sudipto Sen was sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment by a Bidhannagar court today in a provident fund default case, making it Sen's first conviction in a slew of cases involving a multi-crore chit fund scam.
