Topic: jail

Valentin Hénault came to India in 2023 to work on a documentary project about caste discrimination and was arrested by Gorakhpur police. He's now published a book about it titled 'I Had an Indian Dream: In the Hell of Gorakhpur Prison'.

While Karnataka Home Affairs Minister G Parameshwara announces a slew of measures to limit inmates’ preferential treatment, BJP hits the streets & seeks NIA probe.

Viral video purportedly shows murder accused history-sheeter cutting cake to applause from other inmates. Last yr, actor Darshan, accused of murder, was seen enjoying his time in the prison.

Home ministry had launched Support to Poor Prisoners scheme in 2023, providing cash bail of up to Rs 40,000 and penalty payment of up to Rs 25,000 to reduce jail overcrowding.

CJI B.R. Gavai has called for a return to the landmark principle, calls for courts to reassert it even in stringent UAPA and PMLA cases.

‘The one thing that makes me sad is that all the officers here are Indians… Had they been British, I would have taught them a lesson.’

Aguad has many reminders of the price of freedom, such as the wall of plaques commemorating fallen fighters and the solitary cell of TB Cunha, the ‘Father of Goan Nationalism’.

Mohsin Radio was picked up by police from his house in Bhopal in June 2015 & died later that month in custody. Court heard 14 witnesses, of which 3 were policemen, 3 doctors.

Former prime minister Imran Khan and his foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi were jailed for flaunting secret documents and not returning them to the government.

The conviction, which Khan rejects as politically motivated, likely means he will be disqualified from running in a general election due by November.