Assistant Superintendent at Delhi's Tihar jail tests COVID-19 positive
News | May 25, 2020 19:32 ISTThe assistant superintendent, posted at Central Jail Number 7, is a resident of Staff Residential Complex of Tihar Jail.
The assistant superintendent, posted at Central Jail Number 7, is a resident of Staff Residential Complex of Tihar Jail.
Tihar Jail on Sunday reported its first coronavirus case after a 45-year assistant superintendent tested positive for the infection. The assistant superintendent Chetram Meena posted at Central Jail No 7, is a resident of Staff Residential Complex of Tihar Jail.
An undertrial prisoner at Tihar Jail has accused the prison staff of “using him” to the pass around mobile phones to other inmates. The prison officials, however, refuted the allegation.
Amid lockdown, Tihar Jail is distributing food to the needy. Underpriviledged are being served surplus food by prison authorities.
A woman accused of killing her in-laws has committed suicide in Tihar jail. The woman along with her husband was accused in a double murder case ended her life by choking herself. Further investigation in the case is underway, police informed.
Tihar Jail to release 3,000 prisoners to ease congestion in jails amid Coronavirus scare
Tihar jail will release over 3,000 criminals to ease congestion in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in India. As many as 1,500 convicts and 1,500 undertrial prisoners will be freed as the coronavirus continues to deepen in India.
People gathered outside the Tihar Jail for the 'Nirbhaya Day'.
People celebrate & distribute sweets outside Tihar jail where four 2012 Delhi gang-rape case convicts were hanged at 5:30 am today.
Nirbhaya's parents did a countdown as the time of the execution of the four convicts neared. This is the first time that four men have been hanged together in Tihar Jail. The executions were carried out after the convicts exhausted every possible legal avenue to escape the gallows.
Nirbhaya's rapists have finally been executed. The four men -- Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma, and Akshay Kumar Singh -- have got their just deserts.
Posters put outside Tihar Jail hours ahead of execution of 2012 Delhi gangrape case convicts.
Nirbhaya gangrape: Finally, Nirbhaya convicts to be hanged tomorrow at 5.30 am. Convicts Vinay Sharma (26), Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) will be hanged in Tihar Jail in New Delhi on Friday, (March 20) .
Nirbhaya case: Four convicts -- Vinay, Mukesh, Akshay, and Pawan are scheduled to be hanged by the noose on March 20 at 5:30 a.m. for brutally raping and murdering a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on December 16, 2012.
The Nirbhaya gangrape case pertains to the brutal gang-rape and killing of a 23-year-old paramedical student in a moving bus on the night of December 16, 2012, by six people including a juvenile in the national capital.
Hangman Pawan conducts dummy execution at the Tihar jail in Delhi today. The four death row convicts of 2012 Delhi gang rape case are scheduled to be hanged on 20th March at 5.30 AM
Hangman Pawan Jallad reached Tihar jail on Tuesday, three days ahead of the scheduled hanging of convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case. Jallad will conduct a dummy execution on Wednesday.
With just five days left for the execution of death sentence in the sensational 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, the Tihar Jail authorities on Sunday said they have asked the hangman to report three days ahead of the scheduled hanging.
Delhi's Tihar Prison authorities had made all necessary preparations for the hanging of four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape-and-murder case which was scheduled for Tuesday, officials said Monday.
The dummy execution was carried out just after the news broke that President Ram Nath Kovind rejected Pawan Gupta's mercy petition.
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