Tihar

Assistant Superintendent At Delhi's Tihar Jail Tests Coronavirus Positive

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday May 24, 2020

Tihar Jail reported its first coronavirus case after a 45-year-old assistant superintendent tested positive for the infection on Sunday, jail officials said.

AgustaWestland Case: Delhi Court Allows Probe Agency To Interrogate Christian Michel

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday May 24, 2020

A Delhi court has allowed the Enforcement Directorate to interrogate alleged middleman Christian Michel at the Tihar central jail, where he is lodged in connection with the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam case.

Tihar Inmate Accuses Jail Staff Of "Using Him" To Pass Mobile Phones Around

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday May 20, 2020

An undertrial prisoner at Tihar Jail has accused the prison staff of "using him" to the pass around mobile phones to other inmates. The prison officials, however, have refuted the allegation.

AgustaWestland Chopper Scam Case: Supreme Court Dismisses Christian Michel's Interim Bail Plea

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday April 22, 2020

The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea of Christian Michel James, an alleged middleman arrested in connection with the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam cases, seeking interim bail on the grounds of risk of contracting coronavirus in Tihar jail.

AgustaWestland Case: Delhi High Court Dismisses Christian Michel's Interim Bail Plea

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday April 7, 2020

The Delhi High Court has dismissed the plea of Christian Michel James, an alleged middleman arrested in connection with the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam cases, seeking interim bail on the grounds of risk of contracting coronavirus in Tihar jail.

Tihar Releases 400 Prisoners To Decongest Prisons Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday March 28, 2020

The Tihar Jail authority has released over 400 inmates to reduce overcrowding in prisons to prevent the spread of coronavirus, officials said on Saturday.

AgustaWestland Case:Christian Michel Seeks Bail Citing Coronavirus Risk In Jail

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday March 26, 2020

Christian Michel James, an alleged middleman arrested in connection with the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam cases by the CBI and ED, moved the Delhi High Court on Thursday seeking interim bail citing risk of contracting coronavirus in the Tihar Jail.

"Justice Has Prevailed": PM Modi After Nirbhaya Convicts' Hanging

India News | Edited by Shylaja Varma | Friday March 20, 2020

"Justice has prevailed," Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted after the hanging of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya caseon Friday morning, over seven years after the young medical student - who came to be known as "Nirbhaya" or fearless - was gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in Delhi.

Nirbhaya Case: Key Moments In 2012 Rape-And-Murder Case That Shocked India

India News | Edited by Arun Nair | Friday March 20, 2020

Seven years after a young medical student was gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in Delhi, four of her killers were hanged at 5.30 am on Friday. The pre-dawn execution took place less than two hours after the Supreme Court dismissed the final petition of the convicts.

Nirbhaya Convicts Refused Last Meal, Hardly Slept, Didn't Bathe

India News | Reported by Mukesh Singh Sengar, Edited by Shylaja Varma | Friday March 20, 2020

The four convicts in the Nirbhaya case spent a restless night at Delhi's Tihar Jail before their hanging before dawn today. Their last few hours were spent in isolation, in separate cells at Jail 3, jail officials said.

"I Hugged Her Photo": Nirbhaya's Mother On Rapists' Hanging

India News | Reported by Sukirti Dwivedi, Saurabh Shukla; Edited by Shylaja Varma | Friday March 20, 2020

Our wait for justice was painful and agonising but we finally got it, Asha Devi, the mother of Nirbhaya said minutes after four of her daughter's rapists and killers were hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail this morning, over seven years after the young medical student was gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in the capital.

7 Years Later, Nirbhaya's Killers Hanged

India News | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Friday March 20, 2020

Seven years after a young medical student was gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in Delhi, a crime that shocked India, four of her killers were hanged at 5.30 am on Friday. The pre-dawn execution took place less than two hours after the Supreme Court dismissed the final petition of the convicts.

Nirbhaya Case Updates: "Our Nari Shakti Has Excelled In Every Field": PM On Nirbhaya Verdict

India News | Edited by Sumana Nandy | Friday March 20, 2020

The four convicts in the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student were hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail at 5:30 am today. After three of the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case moved the Delhi high court Thursday evening challenging the trial court order declining to stay their execution scheduled for ea...

4 Nirbhaya Convicts To Hang Tomorrow, Delhi Court Rejects Petitions

India News | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Thursday March 19, 2020

All four men convicted of the gang-rape and killing of a young Delhi woman in 2012 will hang tomorrow morning as decided, a Delhi court said today. The Patiala House Court rejected all petitions of the convicts, Akshay Thakur, 31, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Sharma, 26, and Mukesh Singh, 32, who are to hang at 5.30 am on Friday.

Tihar Bars Inmates From Meeting Familes Till March 31 Over Coronavirus

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday March 19, 2020

The Tihar jail authorities on Wednesday suspended till March 31 the prisoners' meetings with their relatives as a precautionary measure to prevent any outbreak of coronavirus in the crowded prison.