Jail Breaks
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Ex-UP minister Gayatri Prajapati attacked inside jail, inmate repeatedly stabs him with scissors
Uttar Pradesh | Sep 30, 2025, 11:32 PM ISTFormer Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prajapati, currently lodged in Lucknow jail, was attacked by a fellow inmate with a pair of scissors.
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More than 200 inmates escape in jailbreak in Pakistan's Karachi: How an earthquake led to the chaos
India | Jun 03, 2025, 11:02 AM ISTPakistan jailbreak: A massive jailbreak at Karachi’s Malir District Jail during an earthquake allowed over 200 inmates to escape. Chaos led to gunfire, injuries, and one inmate's death. Authorities have recaptured 75 prisoners and launched a city-wide search.
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Israel searches for 6 Palestinians after rare prison break
World | Sep 07, 2021, 11:18 AM ISTIsraeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called it a “grave incident” that required maximum effort by Israel’s various security branches.
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Five prisoners escape from district jail in Chhattisgarh
India | May 07, 2021, 07:06 AM ISTFive prisoners, including one facing trial for rape, escaped from a jail in Chhattisgarh's Mahasamund district on Thursday.
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Bhopal jailbreak: Use of force inevitable, quite reasonable in SIMI activists’ encounter, says panel
India | Jun 25, 2018, 07:09 PM ISTEight members of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who had escaped from the Bhopal Central Jail in October 2016, were shot dead by the police near here.
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Five prisoners escape from Buxar Central Jail in Bihar
India | Dec 31, 2016, 10:11 AM ISTIn another jailbreak incident, five prisoners escaped from Buxar Central Jail in Bihar on late Friday night.
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‘Sabko nipta do’: New audio clip of Bhopal encounter raises doubt
India | Nov 04, 2016, 12:40 PM ISTThe controversy over the killing of eight SIMI activists after they escaped the Bhopal Central Jail grew bigger on Thursday with the new audio tapes of conversation purportedly between cops hinting at the encounter being a pre-planned murder.
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‘We’re coming on Diwali’, wrote slain SIMI activists; had planned to free all 29 accused
India | Nov 03, 2016, 12:13 PM ISTInvestigations into the Bhopal jail break incident have revealed that the eight SIMI activists, who were killed in a police encounter after they managed to escape the Central Jail, were planning to set free all 29 Islamic radicals lodged in the priso