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A constable attached to the Mumbai Central Prison has been dismissed from service after he was allegedly found carrying 71 grams of ganja while reporting on duty, an official said.

Tasleem Ali, a 25-year-old bangle seller who was beaten up for allegedly concealing his identity while selling bangles in an Indore locality in August this year, walked out of prison last evening after spending 107 days at Indore Central Jail.

68-year-old convict of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, Jalees Ansari, went missing on Thursday morning while being on parole, officials said.

A city-based businessman, who has defaulted on income tax payments with arrears of Rs 11.94 crore plus interest, was on Tuesday detained to a civil prison at Parappana Agrahara Central Jail for six months for failing to make satisfactory arrangement for payment of arrears, officials said.

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan - convicted for killing two endangered blackbucks 20 years ago - will have to spend another night in Jodhpur Central Jail as Qaidi (prisoner) No. 106, after a court today said his bail plea hearing will continue tomorrow. The court on Thursday found him guilty of killing two blackbucks in 1998 and sentenced hi...

Lucknow Central is set against the backdrop of a jail and features Farhan Akhtar as a prisoner while in Simran, Kangana Ranaut features as a happy-go-lucky woman

While a video showed prisoners who escaped from a Bhopal jail being shot at close range, raising serious questions about the police's action, the Minister of Jails for Madhya Pradesh told NDTV that "You should praise us for killing the accused even though they escaped" while admitting to "lapses".

Twenty two foreign nationals among the 35 arrested crew of detained US-based private ship were today shifted from the Central Prison at Palayamkottai in Tirunelveli to Chennai while a court adjourned the hearing to Thursday on a police plea seeking seven days custody of three others.

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 ...

Pampering the taste buds of Keralites are some unusual chefs -- prisoners, who are rolling out chapattis and preparing chicken and vegetarian curries for those outside the four walls of the jails.

A constable attached to the Mumbai Central Prison has been dismissed from service after he was allegedly found carrying 71 grams of ganja while reporting on duty, an official said.

Tasleem Ali, a 25-year-old bangle seller who was beaten up for allegedly concealing his identity while selling bangles in an Indore locality in August this year, walked out of prison last evening after spending 107 days at Indore Central Jail.

68-year-old convict of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, Jalees Ansari, went missing on Thursday morning while being on parole, officials said.

A city-based businessman, who has defaulted on income tax payments with arrears of Rs 11.94 crore plus interest, was on Tuesday detained to a civil prison at Parappana Agrahara Central Jail for six months for failing to make satisfactory arrangement for payment of arrears, officials said.

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan - convicted for killing two endangered blackbucks 20 years ago - will have to spend another night in Jodhpur Central Jail as Qaidi (prisoner) No. 106, after a court today said his bail plea hearing will continue tomorrow. The court on Thursday found him guilty of killing two blackbucks in 1998 and sentenced hi...

Lucknow Central is set against the backdrop of a jail and features Farhan Akhtar as a prisoner while in Simran, Kangana Ranaut features as a happy-go-lucky woman

While a video showed prisoners who escaped from a Bhopal jail being shot at close range, raising serious questions about the police's action, the Minister of Jails for Madhya Pradesh told NDTV that "You should praise us for killing the accused even though they escaped" while admitting to "lapses".

Twenty two foreign nationals among the 35 arrested crew of detained US-based private ship were today shifted from the Central Prison at Palayamkottai in Tirunelveli to Chennai while a court adjourned the hearing to Thursday on a police plea seeking seven days custody of three others.

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 ...

Pampering the taste buds of Keralites are some unusual chefs -- prisoners, who are rolling out chapattis and preparing chicken and vegetarian curries for those outside the four walls of the jails.