High Profile Cases Delhi High Court seeks response of Delhi government on plea for Unani doctors in Tihar jail January 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has sought response of the Delhi government and jail authorities on a plea seeking ayurvedic doctors for prisoners lodged in the high-security ward of Tihar jail, without any discrimination. Justice Mukta Gupta asked the authorities to file a status report and listed the matter for further hearing on January 25. The […] Read more » Advocate Harpreet Singh Hora Delhi government Delhi High Court Justice Mukta Gupta plea for Unani doctors Tihar Jail
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News Delhi HC asks for details of physiotherapy facilities in Tihar Jail June 21, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has asked the director general of prisons to give details of the facilities, Observing that several inmates lodged in Tihar Jail here require physiotherapy, including the number of machines and trained physiotherapists, available at the prison. Justice Mukta Gupta issued the direction while hearing a plea of Jagtar Singh Hawara, […] Read more » featured Justice Mukta Gupta physiotherapy Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh Tihar Jail
Top Law News Tihar Jail to High Court: Shahabuddin not in solitary confinement but in high security cell May 8, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Tihar Jail authorities have brushed aside in the Delhi High Court allegations by controversial RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin that he was being kept in solitary confinement and tortured, saying he was lodged in a high security cell with all the facilities given to any other inmate incarcerated there. Taking note of the submission, a bench […] Read more » featured Mohammad Shahabuddin P S Teji Rahul Mehra RJD Supreme Court Tihar Jail Vipin Sanghi
Top Law News High Court poser to Delhi govt: Can convict of one state be jailed in another April 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Can a man convicted in one state be lodged in prison in another state where there is no case against him and is such imprisonment legal? These were posers put to the Delhi government by the Delhi High Court today during the hearing of a plea of Jagtar Singh Hawara, convicted for conspiring to assassinate […] Read more » advocate Mehmood Pracha Delhi High Court featured High Court Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh Tihar Jail
Top Law News HC to govt: Work out plan to improve medical facilities in Tihar April 10, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Noting that the inmates lodged in Tihar Jail here are being referred to outside hospitals for even basic treatments, the Delhi High Court has directed the chief secretary of the city government to convene a meeting to work out a plan for improving facilities at the central jail. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita […] Read more » Central Jail Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital Delhi High Court featured High Court Tihar Jail
Top Law News Court raps Tihar authorities on treating of undertrials December 4, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Jail authorities are “custodians” of undertrials on behalf of the judiciary and are supposed to give them proper medical care, treatment and food, a Delhi court has observed while coming down on Tihar Jail officials for not complying with earlier directions. The court, which was dealing with applications filed by some inmates who sought necessary […] Read more » Court Delhi court featured Law Legal News Tihar authorities Tihar Jail
Top Law News Delhi HC forms panel for enhancing prison security November 6, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Proper functioning of CCTV cameras in Tihar jail, which is overcrowded with prisoners by over 100 per cent, is a “non-compromisable imperative”, the Delhi High Court has said while setting up a high-level committee to suggest measures for enhancing security of three jails here. The court said it was aware that Tihar jail was under […] Read more » Court Delhi government Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News prison security Tihar Jail
Top Law News Why women prisoners denied open jail benefit: HC to Delhi Govt September 5, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Why are women prisoners in Tihar Jail being denied the benefit of semi-open and open prisons, the Delhi High Court today asked the AAP government and the jail authorities. The high court sought responses from the Delhi government, Lieutenant Governor and Director General of Prisons on a PIL seeking direction to them to extend the […] Read more » AAP government Court Delhi government Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Tihar Jail
Criminal Law News Family Law News Top Law News Dowry death : HC sends husband, father-in-law in Tihar jail September 3, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man and his father have been sentenced to varying jail terms of life imprisonment and 10 years by the Delhi High Court in the dowry death case of his wife, who ended her life after consuming pesticide. The high court upheld the conviction and sentence of the father-son duo, who were held guilty of […] Read more » cruelly dowry death featured harassing harassing and cruelly treating the woman for dowry Tihar Jail
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases SC wants Shahabuddin shifted from Siwan prison to Tihar jail February 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today directed that controversial RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin be shifted to Tihar Jail here from a prison in Bihar to ensure “free and fair trial” in the cases lodged against him. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Amitava Roy asked the Bihar government to transfer Shahabuddin to Tihar Jail within a […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News Shahabuddin Siwan prison Supreme Court Tihar Jail
Top Law News No power to CIC to order jails to pay damages: Delhi HC January 28, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Central Information Commission (CIC) does not have the power to direct Tihar Jail to develop a system of compensating inmates who have been incarcerated beyond their period of sentence, Delhi High Court has held. “Prima facie, this power does not vest in the CIC,” Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said while staying operation of the September 29, […] Read more » Central Information Commission CIC Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Tihar Jail
Criminal Law News Top Law News Dec 16 gangrape: 2 convicts shifted to separate cell January 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two of the four death row convicts in the December 16 gangrape and murder case have been shifted to a separate cell in Tihar Jail after they alleged threat from a co-prisoner, prison authorities told a Delhi court today. The response came on a plea by two convicts Pawan Gupta and Akshay Kumar Singh saying […] Read more » 2 convicts shifted to separate cell Court Criminal news Dec 16 gangrape featured Law Legal News murder case Tihar Jail
