Yerawada Central Prison

A jailer was injured after he was assaulted allegedly by some inmates of the Yerawada central prison in Pune, an official said.

A prisoner serving life imprisonment has escaped from the open jail of Yerawada Central Prison in Maharashtra's Pune city, police said on Tuesday.

Mohan Patil, a jailer, was allegedly shot at by two unidentified bike-borne assailants outside the Yerawada central prison today in Pune, police said.

Sanjay Dutt was treated like any ordinary convict at Pune's Yerwada Jail, the Maharashtra government has said, defending his early release from prison last year

Sanjay Dutt, who was lauded for his role as a criminal-turned-Radio Jockey in the popular film 'Lage Raho Munnabhai', has met similar success as RJ and producer at Yerawada Central Prison's radio station.

Actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the Mumbai serial blasts case, today left home for jail to surrender on expiry of his 14-day furlough but was back home again, apparently due to lack of coordination between the prison and police authorities on his application seeking an extension of leave of absence.

In an outrageous bungle-up at the noted Yerawada central prison, a jail guard lost the keys to the prisoners' cells and barracks for a few hours on Monday. Slapping irony on to the injury, it was a prison inmate who saved face for the hangdog authorities, after happening upon the keys and returning them to the jailor.

A 27-year-old convict serving an eight-year-term at the Yerawada Central Prison wrote to the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, complaining about myriad health problems he suffered from due to obesity. In the letter written on January 21, Atmaram Dengle requested the court to grant him a 90-day parole so that he could undergo weight reduction ...

A jailer was injured after he was assaulted allegedly by some inmates of the Yerawada central prison in Pune, an official said.

A prisoner serving life imprisonment has escaped from the open jail of Yerawada Central Prison in Maharashtra's Pune city, police said on Tuesday.

Mohan Patil, a jailer, was allegedly shot at by two unidentified bike-borne assailants outside the Yerawada central prison today in Pune, police said.

Sanjay Dutt was treated like any ordinary convict at Pune's Yerwada Jail, the Maharashtra government has said, defending his early release from prison last year

Sanjay Dutt, who was lauded for his role as a criminal-turned-Radio Jockey in the popular film 'Lage Raho Munnabhai', has met similar success as RJ and producer at Yerawada Central Prison's radio station.

Actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the Mumbai serial blasts case, today left home for jail to surrender on expiry of his 14-day furlough but was back home again, apparently due to lack of coordination between the prison and police authorities on his application seeking an extension of leave of absence.

In an outrageous bungle-up at the noted Yerawada central prison, a jail guard lost the keys to the prisoners' cells and barracks for a few hours on Monday. Slapping irony on to the injury, it was a prison inmate who saved face for the hangdog authorities, after happening upon the keys and returning them to the jailor.

A 27-year-old convict serving an eight-year-term at the Yerawada Central Prison wrote to the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, complaining about myriad health problems he suffered from due to obesity. In the letter written on January 21, Atmaram Dengle requested the court to grant him a 90-day parole so that he could undergo weight reduction ...