Akola: A 40-year-old undertrial lodged in the Akola Central Jail allegedly died by suicide after jumping into a well on the prison premises on Thursday. The incident raised questions over inmate monitoring and mental health care within the jail.The deceased, Anil Omkar Nimbokar, 40, a resident of Gajanan Nagar, Yawalkhed, Akola, was remanded to judicial…
Dumka: A 23-year-old undertrial prisoner was hospitalised after being bitten by a venomous snake on the Rajmahal Sub-Divisional Jail premises in Sahibganj district on Wednesday.The inmate, identified as Sohan Kumar Yadav, a resident of the Barharwa police station limits, was rushed to the Rajmahal Sub-divisional Hospital shortly after the incident. Doctors said his condition is…
New Delhi: A Delhi court has cancelled the day-to-day proceedings in the Shraddha Walkar murder case scheduled for July 20 after the accused, Aaftab Amin Poonawala, informed it that he would be appearing for his final MA Sociology examination at Tihar Jail that afternoon.Additional Sessions Judge Hargurvarinder Singh Jaggi noted that Poonawala’s examinations, conducted by…
Mangaluru: Karnataka State Industrial Security Force (KSISF) personnel foiled an attempt to smuggle ganja into Mangaluru District Prison and arrested the accused after a brief chase.The accused, identified as Tilak Raj, was spotted throwing a packet of ganja into the prison premises in the early hours of Wednesday. Personnel chased him for nearly 500 metres…
Kanpur: A 24-year-old undertrial prisoner lodged in Banda Jail in a rape case allegedly died by suicide on Thursday afternoon inside the jail’s gas warehouse.According to officials, the deceased was arrested on Mar 11 for allegedly raping a minor and was sent to judicial custody at Banda Jail.Jail staff said he had been assigned cooking…
Ludhiana: A local court has halted the autopsy of a Ludhiana Central Jail inmate who died by suspected suicide after authorities failed to locate any trace of his family.Security staff had found the body of Sukhwinder Singh, of Batala, Gurdaspur, inside a prison washroom at about 6.30am on Tuesday and claimed it hanged from a…
Patna: A 48-year-old woman undertrial lodged in Kishanganj divisional jail died by suicide early Wednesday after allegedly hanging herself in the women’s ward restroom.The deceased, Usha Rani, wife of Ajay Prasad Sinha and a resident of the Kochadhaman police station area, was found hanging with a scarf. Jail staff brought her down and rushed her…
Pune: A sessions court in Shirur acquitted a sugar cane worker of slitting the throat of his seven-month-old daughter and throwing the body into a well, after he spent almost eight years in jail as an undertrial.The court held that the prosecution failed to establish a complete chain of circumstantial evidence against the sugar cane…
Dhanbad: An undertrial prisoner lodged in Dhanbad divisional jail died under suspicious circumstances late Monday night, leading the district administration to order a magisterial inquiry and a supervised post-mortem examination.The deceased was identified as 27-year-old Jeetan Rajwar of Sangramdih under Govindpur police station. He was in jail since May 16 in connection with the alleged…
Mandya police solve long-pending missing children cases in the district Mandya: Mandya district police have achieved a major breakthrough in investigating the cases of missing children in the district, by tracing several long-pending cases, including one that had been unsolved since 2012. This has brought relief to multiple families and highlighted district police’s intensified efforts…
