The decision was taken as part of the state government’s jail reforms and prisoners’ welfare activities. They will be granted leave so that they can spend the Diwali festival with their family members.

The three activists were released from Tihar jail after one year. They were arrested in May 2020 in connection with the Northeast Delhi riots.

Read an excerpt from Black Warrant, the most intimate and raw account of India’s judicial and criminal justice system.

It is informed that all legal remedies in your case… as available in the Constitution of India have been exhausted except the provision of filing of mercy petition, states the notice by Tihar Jail.

“Some woman prisoners might have committed suicide earlier inside the jail due to which they are hearing these alarming cries,” some people said.

Very few would know what goes behind the bars in Delhi’s infamous Tihar jail. What seems like regular from outside is far from that in reality. An outsider would believe that everyone in jail gets equal treatment and distribution of work. But is it so? In reality, women prisoners were actually fighting their own battle. Till […]

This December, it will be five years since the brutal gangrape and death of Jyoti Singh aka Nirbhaya. The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has therefore written to the Tihar Jail authorities and the DCP, South District, about the delay in hanging of the convicts. The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of the convicts six months ago. […]

They say it’s a man’s world but some gutsy women challenge that trend. Meet Anju Mangla, who took charge of the high-security men’s prison in Tihar jail. She has become the first woman superintendent. Earlier, there have been two women — Kiran Bedi and Vimla Mehra, who have served as DG of Tihar — but […]