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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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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.

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