A Delhi judge on Tuesday expressed displeasure with Tihar and Mandoli jail authorities after several accused in a case related to the February riots said they were being denied basic facilities permis...

The administration of Ghaghidih Central Jail has decided to organise Durga Puja at the jail premises, but on low-scale. The Durga Puja organising committee of the central jail has dropped the practic...

Gauhati High Court has directed the Assam government to submit an action-taken report by October 16 on steps taken to set up detention centres “outside” jail premises. Justice Achintya Ma...

A court here on Monday ordered the home department to remove the superintendent of Calcutta’s Presidency Jail from duty for failing to present before the court an accused in a deposit mobilisati...

Jharkhand’s largest prison, Birsa Munda Central Jail in Ranchi, which had emerged as one of the hotspots of Covid-19 with over 300 infections is now Covid-free, prison authorities said on M...

Jharkhand’s largest prison, Birsa Munda Central Jail in Ranchi, which had emerged as one of the hotspots of Covid-19 with over 300 infections is now Covid-free, prison authorities said on M...

Bokaro registered 335 positive cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday in the biggest spike in the number of cases in a day. The figure of active cases in the district reached 1,000.  The spike can ...

East Singhbhum recorded 130 new Covid-19 cases, including 12 in Ghaghidih Central Jail, during the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 4,780 in the district. Of the 12 who tested ...

A police constable was killed with an axe by his colleague after a heated argument in the police barrack of the Ghatshila sub-jail in Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum district late on Monday night. T...

In a bid to help prisoners fight Covid-19, authorities have included boiled eggs and kadha – a therapeutic Indian drink for boosting immunity– to the daily diet of infected inmates in jail...