The accused, identifed as Rashid Zafar, was arrested in 2018 on the allegations of being member of an ISIS-inspired group who were planning suicide attacks and serial blasts, targeting politicians as also government installations in Delhi and other parts of north India.
The international wrestler was arrested on May 23 from outer Delhi's Mundka area. Following his arrest, the court had remanded him to six days police custody, which was later extended by four more days.
Shahabuddin's senior lawyer submitted to the apex court that his client has been in jail for the last 14 years in a murder case.
Mohd Anish, tested positive for COVID on Monday and was admitted to a jail hospital with mild symptoms.
Former JNU student Umar Khalid has tested positive for Covid-19. Khalid is currently lodged at Delhi's high-security Tihar Jail.
Gangster and former RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin, who is lodged in Tihar Jail and serving a life term in a murder case, has been tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.
Over 60 inmates and 11 staff members in the three prison complexes of Delhi are presently undergoing treatment for COVID-19, officials said on Wednesday.
The Delhi police had earlier seized two mobile phones from Tihar jail, which will now be sent to a laboratory for technical investigations, following which, a decision on Akhtar's custody will be made.
Acting on inputs from intelligence agencies, authorities conducted a raid inside Tihar Jail’s high security ward late on Thursday evening and recovered a smartphone from the cell where an Indian Mujahideen terrorist is lodged.
In a new development to the Antilia bomb scare and blast outside Israeli Embassy cases, the Delhi Police Special Cell will question Indian Mujahideen terrorist Tehseen Akhtar alias Monu in Tihar Jail on Saturday after two mobile phones were recovered from his barrack, sources said.
A mobile has been seized from the barrack of Indian Mujahideen terrorist Tehseen Akhtar alias Monu in the high-security Tihar Jail. The mobile was used to create a Telegram channel that claimed the resposibility for Antilia bomb scare.
The crime branch of Delhi police received a complaint from a businessman alleging that he received a phone call on his mobile phone stating that "Shakti" is calling from Tihar Jail, Delhi.
A Delhi court has directed the Tihar Jail authorities to provide security to former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid in the jail premises, after he was sent to 14-days judicial custody in connection with a case relating to the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February.
In an ongoing exhibition by the India International Centre and The Village Gallery, that starts September 7, monoprints created by these women inmates are on display. Titled 'A Brush With Hope', they carry an inspirational backstory that are rare to come out from claustrophobic prison cells.
A woman police constable of Delhi Police posted at Tihar jail was found dead at her residence in southwest Delhi's Palam village on Wednesday. The woman constable lived at the rented accommodation while her parents stayed in Haryana's Rewari district.
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.
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