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News of Chhota Rajan's death wrong, says Tihar Jail administration

The Tihar Jail administration on Friday said that the news of gangster Chhota Rajan's death is "wrong".

4 die of Covid-19 in Tihar, officials request emergency parole of prisoners

Amid the second Covid-19 wave, officials of the Tihar Jail in Delhi have written to the Delhi government requesting emergency parole for some prisoners

Antilia scare: Gangster lodged in Tihar under scanner for Telegram message

The gangster is being probed in connection with the message on Telegram, via which an outfit named Jaish-ul-Hind claimed responsibility for placing an explosives-laden SUV near Mukesh Ambani's house

Ambani bomb scare: Jaish-ul-Hind Telegram channel ''created in Tihar''

As the new angle emerged, the Delhi Police''s Special Cell approached the Tihar Jail administration and is likely to question some suspects, official sources said

Toolkit case: Climate activist Disha Ravi released from Tihar jail

Climate activist Disha Ravi, who was arrested in connection with the toolkit case, was released from Tihar jail on Tuesday night after a city court granted her bail.

A 75% spike: How Covid spread faster among Delhi prison staff than inmates

In Delhi's prisons, the most crowded in India as per newly-released data, the total number of COVID-19 cases spiked by 75.18% from 137 to 240 in 58 days

BS READS: Are corporate-run prisons an answer to India's rotting jails?

By allowing corporate entities to manage separate jails for undertrials, state governments could free up to 70 per cent capacity in India's notoriously overcrowded prisons

Nirbhaya convicts didn't resist while execution, one broke down: Official

None of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case put up any resistance when they were being taken to the gallows on Friday but Vinay Sharma broke down, a Tihar jail official said. The convicts also did not show any signs of anxiety on the night before their execution and skipped breakfast on Friday, he said. Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) - convicted for the gang rape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern in 2012 - were hanged at 5.30 am. "The four convicts showed no signs of anxiety last evening or put up any resistance while being taken to the gallows for hanging. Vinay broke down when he was being taken for the execution," the official said. Anticipating that the convicts might show some resistance, strongmen had been kept on standby, he said. According to the official, only Sharma and Mukesh Singh had dinner on Thursday night. "Vinay and Mukesh had their dinner properly on time (on Thursday night). The meal compri

Time to introspect about death-row convicts using delaying tactics: Prasad

The four men were hanged at 5.30 am on March 20 inside Delhi's Tihar Jail.

Satwant Singh to Nirbhaya case: History of executions in Independent India

Sixteen convicts have been executed in the country in the past three decades, including Yakub Memon, Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab.

Coronavirus threat under lock and key: Delhi's Tihar prison quarantines 18

The isolated prisoners include eight foreign nationals out of which three are from Afghanistan. They also include four women

Nirbhaya case: Tihar officials to conduct dummy execution of convicts today

The four convicts in the 2012 case are scheduled to be hanged at 5:30 am on March 20

Nirbhaya case: Tihar authorities to move HC for execution date of convicts

The four convicts were to be hanged on Saturday but a city court indefinitely postponed their execution

Nirbhaya rape case: Delhi court postpones hanging of death row convicts

Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Kumar Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar (31) were scheduled to be hanged on February 1 at 6 am

Nirbhaya case: Supreme Court to hear death row convict's petition tomorrow

A Delhi court has issued a fresh death warrant against the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case, who will be executed on February 1 at 6 am.

Nirbhaya case: Court rejects convicts' lawyer's plea seeking Tihar papers

The public prosecutor, appearing for the Delhi Police, told the court that Tihar jail authorities have supplied all the relevant documents sought by the lawyer of the death row convicts in the case

INX Media case: Chidambaram gets bail, out after 106 days in Tihar jail

Chidambaram is set to be the party's lead speaker on economic issues in the remainder of the winter session of Parliament and will address a press conference on Thursday

INX media case: Ex-NITI CEO, others move bail plea before Delhi court

Former OSD to finance minister Pradeep Kumar Bagga and former FIPB director Prabodh Saxena also moved bail pleas in the case.

Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi visit ex-Finance Minister Chidambaram in Tihar jail

He was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in the money laundering case on October 16 and is in judicial custody till November 27 under the order of a trial court.

Nirbhaya gangrape case: Convicts asked to 'file mercy plea or face death'

The jail authorities asked the convicts to file the mercy petition, if they wish, within seven days of receiving the notice