Good news is in the offing for thousands of women and transgender convicts above the age of 50 with the government planning to commute their sentence over three phases subject to their behaviour in ja...

A German court in the northeastern state of Brandenburg on Tuesday sentenced a former concentration camp guard to five years in jail. Prosecutors accused the pensioner of involvement in the murd...

A prisoner from Patna’s Beur Central Jail, who had come to Deoghar in Jharkhand to be produced in a criminal case, was shot dead by an unidentified person near Deoghar Civil Court on Saturday mo...

A 24-year-old Indian-origin man was jailed for 10 weeks after he injured a private-hire driver during a physical tussle last year for cancelling his booking, a media report has said. Timothy Thiranra...

The younger brother of Sri Lanka's legendary cricketer and the 1996 World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga was on Monday sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment for extorting money b...

A day after a Delhi court awarded life imprisonment to Yasin Malik in a terror funding case, Tihar prison authorities here on Thursday said the separatist leader has been kept in a separate cell under...

The headmistress of a school in Goalpara district of Assam was arrested and sent to jail for bringing cooked beef to school as her lunch, officials said on Thursday. The headmistress, Daliman Nessa, ...

An Indian-origin man who was found guilty of a violent robbery in east London has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment along with two of his accomplices. Ajaypal Singh, 28, had pleaded guilty to t...

The angrez ke zamane ka jailor seems to have been a bibliophile in comparison to the likes of Kurlekar. During his 700-day incarceration, Bhagat Singh apparently read 300 books. It is even said that t...

Ghaghidih Central Jail is to be equipped with electric fencing soon for making it a more protected place for the prisoners. The main purpose behind the move is to lessen dependency on the prison secur...