AHMEDABAD: A special CBI court in Ahmedabad on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old teacher to life imprisonment “till his last breath” for raping a student and impregnating her, after eloping with her on the pretext of marriage.This is the second time the accused, Dhaval Trivedi, has been awarded life sentence. A repeat offender, he was already…
KALABURAGI: As the heavy gates of Kalaburagi central jail swung open last Thursday, Durgappa, 68, stepped out. But freedom came at a price – Rs 1.1 lakh, to be precise.The murder convict was set to walk free in November 2024 on account of good behaviour during his 12 years behind bars. But a court-mandated fine…
NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court has admitted an appeal filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging the trial court’s decision to sentence Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar medical college and hospital rape-murder case, to life imprisonment without parole. However, the court refused to admit a separate appeal by the…
Zahur Haider Zaidi (left) NEW DELHI: A CBI court in Chandigarh sentenced Himachal Pradesh inspector general (IG) of Police Zahur Haider Zaidi and seven other police personnel to life imprisonment on Monday. The sentence follows their involvement in the custodial death of an accused in the rape and murder of a 16-year-old schoolgirl in Shimla‘s…
KOLKATA: Sanjay Roy responded “I can’t say” to 56 out of 104 questions from prosecution, but said “yes” when asked if he was the person seen in CCTV footage at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital’s chest department on Aug 9.This key admission played a critical role in linking him to the rape and murder…
KOLKATA: A sessions court in Kolkata Monday sentenced former traffic police volunteer Sanjay Roy (35) to jail for the remainder of his life for raping and murdering a 31-year-old junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Aug 9 last year, acknowledging that it resisted “the temptation to bow to public pressure or…
A file photograph of Sanjay Roy NEW DELHI: A Kolkata court sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment till death for the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, rejecting the prosecution’s plea for the death penalty. The court held that the case does not meet the “rarest of…
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…
BENGALURU: Forty-eight of the 49 witnesses in former BJP corporator Rekha Kadiresh’s murder 3.5 years ago turned hostile during trial, but a video shot by a girl on her mobile phone that showed the fatal attack proved crucial, helping a Bengaluru sessions court convict seven men and sentence them to imprisonment for the rest of…
