New Delhi, March 14 Leaders from Ladakh welcomed climate activist Sonam Wangchuk's release from Jodhpur jail on Saturday and demanded the release of other detainees.Wangchuk was released from prison on Saturday after the Union government revoked his detention with immediate effect.Ladakh MP...
Kolkata, March 7 The Calcutta High Court has ordered the immediate release and repatriation of a Bangladeshi prisoner, who was a minor when apprehended for illegal entry into India and has been languishing in jail for the last 21 years.Pointing out that the maximum punishment that can be...
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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...
New Delhi, February 27 The Supreme Court on Friday allowed a plea by Vikas Yadav, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence without remission for the murder of businessman Nitish Katara in 2002, seeking to be released from prison on furlough.A bench of Justices MM Sundresh and Vipul M Pancholi...
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...
Nagpur, February 17 The wife of a civil engineer from Nagpur has been running from one place to another to secure the release of her husband, who has been in jail in Mali, a West African country, for the past year after his arrest in a financial dispute case involving his employer firm based in...
New Delhi, February 16 – The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea filed by Abu Salem, a convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, seeking early release under the extradition arrangement between India and Portugal.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta allowed Abu Salem to...
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New Delhi, February 11 The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea by Vikas Yadav, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence without parole for the murder of businessman Nitish Katara in 2002, seeking to be released from prison for 21 days.Dismissing the petition, Justice Ravinder Dudeja...