Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar (file photo) NEW DELHI: The prosecution has sought the court to award the death penalty to former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, according to news agency ANI. Kumar was convicted for the murder of a father-son duo in November 1984 in Delhi’s Saraswati Vihar.On Tuesday,…
AGRA: Supreme Court has set aside death penalty awarded to an Agra man who was earlier convicted for murder of his brother, sister-in-law and four children in a property dispute case in 2012. The man, Gambhir Singh, has been in jail since past 13 years. Pulling up the investigating officers, SC stated “the investigation of…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (File photo) KOLKATA: Bengal government appealed the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case verdict in Calcutta high court on Tuesday, questioning the rationale behind a sessions court not treating the crime “rarest of rare” and sparing convict Sanjay Roy the death sentence.The victim’s parents, too, intend to appeal Sealdah additional sessions…
NEW DELHI: The parents of the 31-year-old doctor who was raped and murdered at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata last year on Monday expressed discontent with the Kolkata court sentencing the convict to life imprisonment until death, along with a fine of Rs 50,000.The grieving parents were unsatisfied with the court’s…
NEW DELHI: A Kolkata court on Monday sentenced RG Kar rape-murder case convict Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000. The Civil and Criminal court in Sealdah pronounced the sentence as the family of the 31-year-old doctor demanded strictest punishment for the convict.The court, while sentencing Sanjay Roy who was…
AGRA: Ex-Army jawan Manoj Kumar, 50, was sentenced to death by a court in Aligarh on Saturday for the murder of his wife Seema Devi, 38, son Manvendra Singh, 6, and neighbour Shashibala, 40, in 2014. The court relied heavily on the testimony of the convict’s 13-year-old daughter, Usimita Singh, who was critically injured in…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday praised a POCSO court in Baruipur for awarding the death penalty to Mostakin Sardar, convicted of the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Joynagar, South 24 Parganas. The verdict came just 62 days after the crime, a pace Banerjee described as “unprecedented” in…
KOLKATA: MLAs on Monday got a draft copy of the Aparajita Bill, which seeks to punish all incidents of rape – including cases where the woman survives – with death or life in prison. State law minister Moloy Ghatak is likely to table the Aparajita Women, Child (West Bengal Criminal Law Amendment) Bill 2024 in…
KOLKATA: The stringent anti-rape bill to be tabled by West Bengal’s govt in the assembly on Monday proposes to treat all rape crimes – even if the victim survives – as a murder to be punished with life imprisonment or death, irrespective of the victim’s age. It will also call for a time-bound trial and…
RUDRAPUR: Amid the nationwide anger on the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata, the brutal rape and murder of a 33-year-old nurse has ignited widespread outrage in Uttarakhand‘s Udham Singh Nagar. The victim was a single mother and worked at a private hospital in Rudrapur. On Friday, members of Women’s Congress staged a…
