Puzhal Central Prison

Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash-for-jobs case, was on Monday shifted to the Puzhal Central Prison here from a private hospital, official sources said.

In a first in the history of Tamil Nadu prisons, the head of the department, Amaraesh Pujari had food with inmates of the Puzhal Central Jail on Thursday.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has ordered 30-day ordinary leave for AG Perarivalan, a Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict who is lodged in the Puzhal Central Prison in Chennai.

Authorities of the Puzhal Central Jail on the outskirts of Chennai have removed 18 television sets and two FM radios from its premises in the wake of findings that inmates were using these appliances to charge mobile phones sneaked inside illegally.

The Madras High Court on Monday ordered setting up of a four-member team of doctors to conduct the postmortem of the body of P Ram Kumar, accused in the woman techie murder case, who allegedly committed suicide by biting a live wire at the Puzhal central prison in Chennai.

Five persons were arrested for allegedly cheating 100 youths seeking jobs in Chennai Metro Rail and swindling about Rs 2 crore from them, police said today.

A life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, AG Perarivalan, who was brought to Chennai from Vellore central prison, on Monday underwent medical tests at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) here to determine his illess related to an infection.

A convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, AG Perarivalan who is serving life imprisonment at Vellore Central Prison was today brought to Chennai for medical treatment due to an illness, jail authorities said.

A local court today dismissed the bail petitions of the 35 crew members of the detained US ship MV Seaman Guard Ohio, arrested on October 18 on charges of illegally carrying arms and straying into Indian waters.

A Public Interest Litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court for a direction to the Superintendent of Puzhal Central Prison, on the outskirts of the city, not to dispose of human waste and sewage from jail in a manner, it would pollute the air and water in the area.

The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Additional Director General of Police (prisons) to conduct a thorough probe into the alleged 'severe' assault of three under trial Nigerian nationals at Puzhal Central Prison by jail wardens on March 14. "When prisoners have sustained injuries and when they have claimed the injuries had been caused ...

Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash-for-jobs case, was on Monday shifted to the Puzhal Central Prison here from a private hospital, official sources said.

In a first in the history of Tamil Nadu prisons, the head of the department, Amaraesh Pujari had food with inmates of the Puzhal Central Jail on Thursday.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has ordered 30-day ordinary leave for AG Perarivalan, a Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict who is lodged in the Puzhal Central Prison in Chennai.

Authorities of the Puzhal Central Jail on the outskirts of Chennai have removed 18 television sets and two FM radios from its premises in the wake of findings that inmates were using these appliances to charge mobile phones sneaked inside illegally.

The Madras High Court on Monday ordered setting up of a four-member team of doctors to conduct the postmortem of the body of P Ram Kumar, accused in the woman techie murder case, who allegedly committed suicide by biting a live wire at the Puzhal central prison in Chennai.

Five persons were arrested for allegedly cheating 100 youths seeking jobs in Chennai Metro Rail and swindling about Rs 2 crore from them, police said today.

A life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, AG Perarivalan, who was brought to Chennai from Vellore central prison, on Monday underwent medical tests at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) here to determine his illess related to an infection.

A convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, AG Perarivalan who is serving life imprisonment at Vellore Central Prison was today brought to Chennai for medical treatment due to an illness, jail authorities said.

A local court today dismissed the bail petitions of the 35 crew members of the detained US ship MV Seaman Guard Ohio, arrested on October 18 on charges of illegally carrying arms and straying into Indian waters.

A Public Interest Litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court for a direction to the Superintendent of Puzhal Central Prison, on the outskirts of the city, not to dispose of human waste and sewage from jail in a manner, it would pollute the air and water in the area.

The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Additional Director General of Police (prisons) to conduct a thorough probe into the alleged 'severe' assault of three under trial Nigerian nationals at Puzhal Central Prison by jail wardens on March 14. "When prisoners have sustained injuries and when they have claimed the injuries had been caused ...