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Islamabad, April 15 (IANS) A total of 400 prisoners managed to flee after unidentified assailants stormed a central jail in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Geo News reported Sunday. The assailants stormed the Bannu Central Jail with heavy gunfire and left dozens of police guards and attackers as injured in the cross firing, the report said. According [...]

London, Feb 20 (IANS) At least three people were killed and 15 others injured after dozens of gunmen attacked a jail in southern Philippines to free a prisoner, police said Monday. The incident occurred when at least 50 gunmen stormed a jail in Kidapawan city in North Cotabato province late Sunday night, the BBC reported. According [...]

  Vijayawada, April 8 (TMS): U.Kutumba Raju, Dy. Jailor, Nuzivid sub-jail, Krishna district was caught red handed by the A.C.B. officials here today at Nikitha cool drink shop (near sub-jail), Nuzivid, when he demanded and accepted the bribe amount of Rs.15,000 from the complainant Ch. nivasa Rao, (finance business). The accused officer (Dy. Jailor) demanded [...]

Raipur, Feb 20 (IANS) A 25-year-old man who died in police custody here was a victim of excessive torture, his father alleged Monday and sought an independent probe. Chhattisgarh Police, however, denied the charge and said they were open to magisterial inquiry. Bhagwat Daharia, father of Santosh Daharia, claimed that his son was arrested Feb 14 [...]

Lucknow, March 21 (IANS) Two jail officials were critically injured in Uttar Pradesh’s Mau district when prisoners, outraged over the death of a 22-year-old inmate following alleged medical negligence, attacked them with iron rods and even utensils, police said Wednesday. Shafiqur Rehman, a 22-year-old prisoner, died Tuesday night leading to the violent clash between jail staffers [...]

There was a tussle between the Muslim prisoners of Cherlapally Jail, in which 17 prisoners were seriously injured. These prisoners were agitating for bad food supply in the prison. Vexed with this, the staff of Jail resorted to lathi charge in which many prisoners were injured. They were admitted in Jail Dispensary. Getting this news, [...]

Gurgaon (Haryana), March 24 (IANS) Twenty-five labourers in Gurgaon were Saturday sent to police custody for indulging in vandalism and arson at a construction site in the city Friday, police said. Police also filed a criminal case against the contractors for not providing proper safety equipment to workers. “We have filed a criminal case against the [...]

Meerut (Uttar Pradesh), April 18 (IANS) Rioting broke out at the district jail here Wednesday with prisoners pelting stones at policemen and jail staff and the security forces resorting to gunfire, injuring at least 11 people, to thwart the virtual jail-break attempt, officials in Lucknow said. However, district officials here put the figure of those wounded [...]

Hyderabad, June 11 (TMS): The Bowenpally Police Station succeeded in nabbing a notorious young habitual day/night house burglars Mohd. Khaleel @ Shareef, (CDC of Nallakunta P.S) and Mohd. Sarwar @ Khaja on 11-6-2012 and recovering huge stolen gold ornaments weighing about 56 tulas, silver articles  worth Rs. 16,00,000   There were series of day/night H.Bs [...]

Islamabad, April 16 (IANS) Terming Sunday’s jail attack in Pakistan as a “pre-planned conspiracy”, Interior minister Rehman Malik Monday said the Taliban were “contract killers” but called themselves “Muslims”. An audacious Taliban attack on the Bannu jail in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province freed 384 prisoners Sunday. The interior minister termed the attack as a pre-planned conspiracy and [...]