KOCHI: A campaign in her native Kerala to secure the release of nurse Nimisha Priya from death row in Yemen suffered a setback Monday after President Rashad Muhammed al-Alimi approved her sentence for murder. Nimisha, from Palakkad, was convicted of murdering a Yemeni citizen, Talal Abdo Mahdi, in 2018 and has been in Yemen’s central…
CHINSURAH (HOOGHLY): Rescued after he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists, Pramathes Ghosal, a 42-year-old private tutor from Dhaniakhali in Chinsurah subdivision of Bengal’s Hooghly district, was on Monday sentenced to death for brutally killing his elderly father, mother and married sister on Nov 8, 2021.Chinsurah trial judge Sanjay Kumar Sharma termed the…
MUMBAI: Seeking maximum sentence of death against the seven accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, the intervenor, father of one of the victims, submitted in the final arguments that the prosecution proved the case beyond reasonable doubt, reports Rebecca Samervel.“Changes in the regime led to shifts in the approach of the prosecuting agencies, but…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday awarded 20-year jail term without remission to a man for strangulating his nine-month pregnant daughter to death for marrying a lower caste person against his wish in 2013 and commuted the death sentence given by trial court and Bombay HC, reports Amit Anand Choudhary.A bench of Justices Gavai, Aravind…
REWA: In a shocking case of domestic violence, a young woman from Atraila village in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district has been sentenced to death by the fourth additional sessions judge Padma Jatav. The 24-year-old Kanchan Kol was convicted for brutally murdering her 50-year-old mother-in-law, Saroj Kol, by stabbing her more than 95 times with a…
NAGPUR: A sessions court in Maharashtra’s Nagpur pronounced on Monday triple death sentences to a man convicted on three counts of abduction, rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in 2019.Additional sessions judge S R Padwal’s verdict against Sanjay Puri under Sections 302 (murder) and 376AB (rape of a minor) of IPC and Section 6…
BHILWARA: A Rajasthan Pocso court on Monday handed down death sentences to two brothers for gang raping a 17-year-old and burning her alive in Shahpura district on Aug 2 last year. The case had triggered public outrage and led BJP, then in opposition, to target the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress govt over crimes against women ahead…
