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Black Warrant : Confessions Of A Tihar Jailer

Sunil Gupta and Sunetra Choudhury

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A railway man with a higher calling, inquisitive Sunil Gupta was assisted by a familiar face when he secured a new job at Tihar. He only realized on the way out that it was arch criminal and high-functional psychopath, Charles Sobhraj, star of a prison where the cons ran the show. Gupta would also become a lifer, remaining for over three decades... in a place where beatings were bread and butter, and breakfast was hunger strikes called by the wronged who were seeking rights.

This is a book of revelations – what is life like inside Asia’s largest prison? What happens when a man is hanged, but his pulse refuses to give up even after two hours? Did Nirbhaya’s rapist, Ram Singh, commit suicide, or was he murdered? For the first time we have a riveting account from an insider who breaks his silence about all he’s seen. How the most poorly judged and infamous in contemporary Indian history, the least known and most chastised criminals and conspirators in the subcontinent, the guilty and the framed – from Sobhraj via Afzal Guru – lived and died. Award-winning journalist Sunetra Choudhury has captured an extraordinary life lived in a most secretive institution.

A book of secrets and surprises, read Black Warrant for the most intimate and raw account of India’s judicial and criminal justice system.

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Authors

  • SUNIL GUPTA began working at Tihar Jail in 1981 and was later promoted to the position of spokesperson and legal advisor of the jail. Since leaving Tihar Jail, he has worked with the High Court and Supreme Court as an advocate and member of the Delhi High Court Bar Association, accomplishing much to improve India’s prison systems, from introducing Special Courts within the prisons to initiating video conferencing connections between jails and the court. He has also fought for gender equality within the prison system by ensuring that women are availed the same privileges of semi-open and open jail which are given to men. His efforts have earned him the India Vision Award for his achievements in the field of Prison Reforms and Administration. Gupta is the sole officer from the legal field to have received the President’s Correctional Medal for Meritorious as well as Distinguished Services. This is his first book.

  • Sunetra Choudhury started her career at the Indian Express newspaper where she headed the city team. Three years later she moved to TV news and joined NDTV. After covering the 2009 election campaign travelling across the country on a bus for two months, she wrote Braking News. Her latest book Behind Bars: Prison Tales of India’s Most Famous (2017, Roli Books) was the result of extensive interviews with high-profile inmates. In 2016, she received the Red Ink award and is the 2018 Jefferson Fellow.

ISBN
9788194206859
Binding
Paperback
Page Extent
208
Weight (kg)
0.4
Height (in)
8.77
Width (in)
6.37
Subject
General Non-Fiction
Published Date
23/10/19
Publisher
Roli Books

Authors

  • SUNIL GUPTA began working at Tihar Jail in 1981 and was later promoted to the position of spokesperson and legal advisor of the jail. Since leaving Tihar Jail, he has worked with the High Court and Supreme Court as an advocate and member of the Delhi High Court Bar Association, accomplishing much to improve India’s prison systems, from introducing Special Courts within the prisons to initiating video conferencing connections between jails and the court. He has also fought for gender equality within the prison system by ensuring that women are availed the same privileges of semi-open and open jail which are given to men. His efforts have earned him the India Vision Award for his achievements in the field of Prison Reforms and Administration. Gupta is the sole officer from the legal field to have received the President’s Correctional Medal for Meritorious as well as Distinguished Services. This is his first book.

  • Sunetra Choudhury started her career at the Indian Express newspaper where she headed the city team. Three years later she moved to TV news and joined NDTV. After covering the 2009 election campaign travelling across the country on a bus for two months, she wrote Braking News. Her latest book Behind Bars: Prison Tales of India’s Most Famous (2017, Roli Books) was the result of extensive interviews with high-profile inmates. In 2016, she received the Red Ink award and is the 2018 Jefferson Fellow.

ISBN
9788194206859
Binding
Paperback
Page Extent
208
Weight (kg)
0.4
Height (in)
8.77
Width (in)
6.37
Subject
General Non-Fiction
Published Date
23/10/19
Publisher
Roli Books

Reviews

Adrian Levy

Published Date:- January 14, 2022

‘Sunil Gupta was a jailer with a soul – and a degree. Not many of those in Tihar Jail. Doubleagents, murderers and psychopaths, hitmen, terrorists and even the innocent, he walked them to the gallows. Black Warrant is his raucous memoir and a scandalous recollection of three decades of high crimes and misdemeanours. It is also a searing critique of a broken system.’

Kiran Bedi

Published Date:- January 15, 2022

‘Black Warrant opens up a closed world which cannot be “seen” without this kind of descriptive first-hand account. Sunil Gupta was the most conscientious team member during my responsibilities as Inspector General Tihar Prisons in 1993–95. He has ably teamed up with Sunetra Choudhury to bring it all out in the public domain.'


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