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  Ex-UP minister Gayatri Prajapati attacked inside jail, inmate repeatedly stabs him with scissors

  Uttar Pradesh | September 30, 2025 23:32 IST

  Former 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 | June 03, 2025 11:02 IST

  Pakistan 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 | September 07, 2021 11:18 IST

  Israeli 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 7:06 IST

  Five 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 | June 25, 2018 19:09 IST

  Eight 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 | December 31, 2016 10:11 IST

  In 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 | November 04, 2016 12:40 IST

  The 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 | November 03, 2016 12:13 IST

  Investigations 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