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Morena (Madhya Pradesh), March 11 Two minor girls and a female inmate have escaped from a remand home in Morena district after assaulting the warden and stealing the keys, police said on Wednesday.The incident took place on Tuesday night at the Shakti Sadan reform home, run by the Women and...

Rajouri/Jammu, March 7 A scuffle broke out among inmates inside a jail in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, on Saturday following a heated argument between two prisoners, officials said.The altercation between the two inmates – one from Kashmir and the other from Rajouri – quickly escalated, leading...

Ahmedabad, March 3 – A special court in Ahmedabad sentenced two drug traffickers to 15 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each in the 2019 case related to the possession of 3.983 kg of charas, an official of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said on Tuesday...

Ranchi, March 2 The Jharkhand government on Monday decided to release 23 convicts serving life sentences in various prisons across the state, according to a statement.The decision was taken at a meeting of the Jharkhand State Sentence Review Board, chaired by Chief Minister Hemant Soren...

Islamabad, February 25 Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, who is currently in prison, has petitioned the Supreme Court seeking to move him from jail to a private hospital for his eye treatment.Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (

Eleven fishermen who were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy and released from a Sri Lankan prison arrived in Chennai. Of the eleven fishermen, four were from Ramanathapuram, and the other seven were from the districts of Nagapattinam and Mayiladuthurai. They were arrested in July of last year and...

Bhubaneswar, February 18 The superintendent of a prison in Odisha's Cuttack district paid Rs 1.9 lakh to a female inmate after gold jewelry, deposited during admission, was found missing, an official said on Wednesday.The woman from the Mahanga area in Cuttack district had deposited the...

Indore, February 17 A facility for video conferencing rooms was inaugurated at Indore Central Jail on Tuesday, which will help the government machinery to produce prisoners in courts for pending cases from the jail itself.After inaugurating the facility, Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla of the...

Jalaun (UP), February 14 An undertrial prisoner in the Orai district jail, involved in a POCSO case, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in the prison toilet on Saturday, officials said.Manoj Kumar, 25, had been in judicial custody since March 2025 in connection with the case...

Jalaun (UP), February 14 A 25-year-old undertrial prisoner, held in the Orai district jail, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in the prison toilet on Saturday, officials said.The deceased has been identified as Manoj Kumar, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur district. He had...