MUMBAI: Arnab Goswami, editor-in-chief of Republic TV who was arrested in an incitement to the suicide case by Alibaug police on Wednesday, spent his first night in jail at a school in Alibaug that is being used as a temporary prison. A prisoner is kept in the temporary prison to …
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[ad_1] A Maharashtra government-appointed high-power committee has decided to temporarily release around 50 percent of the prisoners to decongest prisons across the state in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, he has not specified any time frame for the prison authorities to release the prisoners. Representative image. AFP The …
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[ad_1] The Bombay High Court has asked the Maharashtra government to ensure that Covid-19 is no longer spread in Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail, where 77 inmates and 26 staff members tested positive for the virus. Judge Bharati Dangre’s address arrived on Friday while listening to a bail request filed on …
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[ad_1] Written by Sadaf Modak The | Mumbai Updated: May 7, 2020 9:43:14 pm Authorities said steps are being taken to isolate those who have been in contact with these inmates and employees. (Proceedings) A total of 103 inmates and staff at the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai have tested …
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[ad_1] Maharashtra registered 1,362 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, bringing the state’s count to 18,120, state health minister Rajesh Tope said. To reduce the risks of further infections due to overcrowding, the government also decided to forgo medical certificates for migrant workers heading home. “We have decided that migrant …
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[ad_1] As many as 72 inmates at the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai have contracted coronaviruses and will be quarantined separately, Maharashtra Interior Minister Anil Deshmukh said on Thursday. Previously, the state government had isolated eight jails in the state, including Arthur Road Prison, and ordered that new people not …
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