India, Pakistan exchange lists of civilian prisoners, fishermen
Under the provisions of the bilateral Agreement on Consular Access 2008, such lists are exchanged every year on 1st January and on 1st July.
Under the provisions of the bilateral Agreement on Consular Access 2008, such lists are exchanged every year on 1st January and on 1st July.
The Haryana government has decided to release 43 prisoners on 15 August 2023 on the occasion of 75th anniversary of…
A total of 376 prisoners received training in 12 trades in five district jails in the Ayodhya zone. In this, 155 prisoners were trained in District Jail Barabanki, 84 in Gonda, 30 in Bahraich, 93 in Ambedkar Nagar, and 14 in Ayodhya.
The Supreme Court on Friday said that all prisoners, released on emergency parole by the state high-powered committees constituted on its order during the Covid pandemic, will have to surrender within 15 days.
DG, Jail, Anand Kumar on Tuesday said that the entire exercise would be completed by the end of February this year.
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), a human rights group, said that more than 4,000 political prisoners remain in detention
The plea had contended despite HPC orders, many continue to languish in jails in Maharashtra.
Disclosing this on Tuesday, the jail minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said that this exercise is being undertaken considering the relaxations in lockdown restrictions, increase in number of new inmates owing to spiralling of crime rate, regarding which the recommendations were made by the high powered committee on the orders of Supreme Court.
Detailed instructions have already been issued to all the prison officials to avoid going to places other than their own homes while on leave, and in case of exigencies, they have to inform the head of the jail.
If an inmate has been convicted for less than five years and has already completed three months in jail, he or she is eligible for the emergency parole, the circular stated.
