Jail
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Jaipur gets first petrol pump operated by jail inmates
News | Mar 16, 2021, 07:32 AM ISTRajasthan's Jaipur prison opened a petrol pump that is being operated by jail inmates. This initiative is providing opportunity to prisoners to earn money. The revenue generated through the petrol pump will also be used for infrastructure development of prison.
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Man gets six months in jail for sexually abusing stray dog
India | Jan 12, 2021, 07:24 PM ISTA court here has sentenced a 40-year-old man to six months in jail for sexually abusing a stray dog in Maharashtra's Thane city.
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4 COVID-positive jail inmates run away from hospital; 3 held again
India | Dec 28, 2020, 08:12 AM ISTFour COVID-positive jail inmates, who were taken to a hospital for treatment, ran away on Sunday evening in this Uttar Pradesh district but the police managed to nab three of them.
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Released during pandemic, UP prisoners asked to return to jail
India | Dec 01, 2020, 10:13 AM ISTMeanwhile, eight of the 15 prisoners, who had been released on parole from Pilibhit district jail on April 29, following the state government's orders, have gone missing and did not return to jail.
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Neil Nitin Mukesh: We must do 'Jail 2'
Celebrities | Nov 06, 2020, 10:35 PM ISTActor Neil Nitin Mukesh says his 2009 prison drama, Jail, is the only project where he used the method acting approach.
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Breaking: Rhea Chakraborty released from Byculla jail after a month
Entertainment | Oct 07, 2020, 05:56 PM ISTMumbai: Actor Rhea Chakraborty released from Byculla jail after a month. She was granted bail by Bombay High Court in a drug-related case filed against her by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)
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Over 44 per cent jail inmates test COVID-19 positive in Guwahati
India | Jul 24, 2020, 08:30 AM ISTThe Gauhati High Court has ordered the Assam government to provide the best treatment to prisoners who have tested positive for COVID-19 after suo motu cognisance of the rising number of cases inside the jails. Total 535 inmates have been infected by coronavirus in 10 jails across the state, and of the highest 435 were from Guwahati, Assam Inspector General of Prisons Dasarath Das said.
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Prisoner escapes from MP's Bhind hospital
News | Jun 08, 2020, 08:24 AM ISTA prisoner escaped from a district hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district on June 7.
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Delhi: 15 inmates, one staff test coronavirus positive in Rohini's Jail
India | May 16, 2020, 02:54 PM ISTAmid the rising number of coronavirus cases in the national capital, 15 inmates and one official tested positive for coronavirus in Rohini jail. The jail authorities had conducted the COVID-19 test of 19 inmates who had shared barracks with a coronavirus positive inmate.
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Delhi: Rohini Jail's inmate tests coronavirus positive; 20 others including 5 staff quarantined
India | May 14, 2020, 11:31 AM ISTAn inmate of Rohini Jail in Delhi has tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday. According to Delhi Prisons DG Sandeep Goel, this is the first case of an inmate at a Delhi prison testing positive. Goel said: “The inmate was admitted at Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital for an intestine surgery on May 10. He was tested for the virus there."
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Here's what's being done to prevent Covid-19 outbreak in Delhi prisons
India | May 11, 2020, 04:31 PM ISTIt is possible for ordinary citizens to practice social distancing but it's hard to enforce such measures in jails. Indian jails are overcrowded already
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Singapore court jails Indian-origin man for abusing police
World | May 06, 2020, 12:11 PM ISTAn Indian-origin man in Singapore was on Wednesday sentenced to seven months in prison for verbally abusing police and safe-distancing enforcement officers who were urging compliance with the COVID-19 measures. Ravi Sinathamby Subramaniam, 53, pleaded guilty to two charges of verbally abusing police and health officers, and a third charge of threatening to "break" the faces of three health officers.
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Punjab jails to get live wire fencing, AI-enabled CCTV systems
India | Feb 20, 2020, 09:37 PM ISTPunjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday approved a series of measures to make jails more secure, including AI-enabled CCTV systems, live wire fencing and creation of a separate prison intelligence wing.
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Deaths of two inmates rock Delhi prisons
India | Nov 15, 2019, 01:41 PM ISTNow the question arises -- 'What's wrong with the high-budget Delhi prisons that have far better facilities as compared to other jails across the country?'.
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Man jailed for seven years for raping woman in UP's Muzaffarnagar
Crime | Nov 14, 2019, 07:53 PM ISTThe judge of the fast track court, Ankur Sharma, also imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 on the accused after holding him guilty under sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code
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Chidambaram lost weight despite getting home-cooked food inside jail
India | Oct 18, 2019, 10:06 PM ISTFormer Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's counsel in the Supreme Court on Friday again told the court that the ex-minister has lost weight inside Tihar Jail.
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Muslim inmates of Gwalior jail take to Bhagwad Gita
India | Oct 09, 2019, 10:45 AM ISTAkeel says that all religions preach good things. He has been reading books in jail and being a Muslim, his preference has been the books concerning his religion. But, now he has come across the Gita and will read it. He says that he will try to understand the teachings and accept them if he likes them.
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Punjab prison where Jawaharlal Nehru was lodged in 1923 collapses in incessant rains
India | Jul 18, 2019, 05:02 PM ISTOne wall and the roof of the historical 240 square-ft jail room in which Nehru, K Santhanam and A T Gidwani were kept on September 22, 1923 collapsed on Wednesday following heavy rains, Faridkot Senior Superintendent of Police Rajbachan Singh Sandhu said.
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Pak judge 'blackmailed' into issuing verdict against Nawaz Sharif: Maryam Nawaz
India | Jul 07, 2019, 10:19 PM ISTPakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Maryam Nawaz has released a video clip purportedly showing an accountability court judge allegedly confessing that he was "blackmailed and forced" to convict former premier Nawaz Sharif in a corruption case.
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2 inmates escape from jail; 1 'run over' by train
India | Jul 07, 2019, 06:10 PM ISTTwo prisoners escaped from the Etawah district jail in Uttar Pradesh by climbing the boundary wall early Sunday, with police saying one of them died after he was apparently run over by a train.