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Crime
Prisoner Locked in Glass Cage for Decades: How Harsh Punishment Came to Be
✍️ Aaj Tak
🗓 29 Aug 2026, 07:39 PM
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An Indian inmate has spent decades confined in a glass cell, isolated from visitors and free movement, spending 23 hours a day behind transparent walls. The case raises questions about the severity and purpose of such punishment.
The Indian prisoner has spent more than thirty years confined in a glass cell, a punishment that keeps him isolated from visitors and the rest of the prison population. The cell, a transparent enclosure, is open only for 23 hours a day, leaving the inmate with minimal contact and no freedom to roam the prison grounds. The unusual nature of this confinement has drawn attention from human‑rights observers and legal experts, who question whether such a measure is proportionate to the crime committed. Authorities say the punishment was imposed after a series of violent offenses, but details of the original conviction remain sparse.