NHRC issues notice to Karnataka Police

Last Updated: Thursday, December 26, 2013, 21:42

The National Human Rights Commission issued notice to the Karnataka Police for failing to release six prisoners who have served their sentence.

Police arrests one of six absconding under-trials

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2013, 14:49

One of the six undertrials who had escaped from a temporary jail set up in judicial complex here was arrested by police, a senior official Wednesday said.

`Dead` woman resurfaces; `killer` husband languishing in jail

Last Updated: Monday, December 23, 2013, 19:16

A "dead" woman was found to be living with her boyfriend, now her husband, in Varanasi while the first husband is languishing in jail for "murdering" her, police said Monday.

Sanjay Dutt out on parole, denies favouritism

Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 00:23

Two weeks after he was granted a month-long parole, Sanjay Dutt was Saturday released from Pune`s Yerwada Jail even as the controversy over "frequency" at which he is getting leave from jail refuses to die down.

Indian sailor Sunil James reunites with family, thanks PM

Last Updated: Friday, December 20, 2013, 08:08

Indian merchant ship captain Sunil James, who was freed from Togo jail after being arrested for allegedly aiding pirates re-united with his family in Mumbai on Friday.

French national sentenced to 10 years in jail

Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 21:08

A French national with alleged links with Babbar Khalsa International terror outfit was awarded ten years imprisonment by a Sessions Court here on Thursday for possessing arms and explosive material in a two-year-old case.

Maharashtra prisons security upped, scanner-CCTVs in Yerwada jail

Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 17:47

Yerwada prison in Pune has been equipped with a baggage scanner to check smuggling of illegal objects inside jail besides 55 CCTVs to keep a tab on inmates, Maharashtra Assembly was informed.

Lostprophets singer jailed for 35 years for child sex abuse

Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 14:15

British rocker Ian Watkins of the band Lostprophets has been jailed for 35 years for a string of child sex crimes including the attempted rape of a baby, as police said investigations were also under way in the United States and Germany.

Extortion bid sends Romanian millionaire to jail

Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 02:28

A Romanian court today sentenced flamboyant millionaire Dan Diaconescu, a politician and owner of the OTV television network, to three months in prison for blackmailing a small-town mayor, Mediafax agency reported.

Jail-break case: 4 inmates sentenced to 2-yr imprisonment in Haryana

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 19:46

A local court on Wednesday sentenced four inmates of Ambala jail to two-year imprisonment for digging a tunnel inside their barrack.

Jessica Lall murder case: Manu Sharma gets parole

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 15:27

Siddharth Vashisht alias Manu Sharma, who is undergoing life term for killing model Jessica Lall in 1999, was Wednesday granted nine days parole by the Delhi High Court to appear in post graduate exams.