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…
NEW DELHI: Rasik Chandra Mandal was born in a nondescript village of Malda district in 1920, the year Indian National Congress launched a non-cooperation movement against the British. More than a century later, he is pleading with the Supreme Court as a lifer for his freedom, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra. Convicted in 1994 in a 1988…
BENGALURU: A Tumakuru court brought a 14-year legal battle to an end on Thursday, sentencing 21 people, including two women, to life imprisonment for the murder of a 45-year-old Dalit woman in 2010, reports Rajiv Kalkod.The convicts, all residents of Gopalapura in Tumakur district, were also fined Rs 13,500 each by third additional district sessions…
AGRA: A local court in Hathras district has sentenced a man and his friend, both in their early 50s, to life imprisonment for the murder of the former’s 70-year-old mother. The murder, committed nine years ago, was part of a plot to frame the man’s rivals, said police, reports Mohammad Dilshad.The case dates back to…
KOPPAL: A sessions court in Karnataka on Thursday sentenced 98 people to life imprisonment and handed five-year jail terms to three others in a 2014 case of discrimination and caste violence targeting Dalits at Marakumbi village of Gangavati taluk.Judge Chandrasekhar C convicted 101 people in the case, of whom three received lighter sentences because Scheduled…
AGRA: A district court in Kasganj has sentenced a 48-year-old man to life imprisonment for forcing his five-year-old daughter into a sack and setting her ablaze, resulting in severe burns which ultimately led to her death. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the convict. According to additional district government counsel (ADGC),…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday convicted former MLA and RJD functionary Vijay Kumar Shukla alias Munna Shukla and Mantu Tiwari for the 1998 murder of former Bihar minister Brij Bihari Prasad and awarded them life imprisonment. The court, however, granted benefit of doubt to five other accused including former MP Suraj Bhan Singh, acquitting them…
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…
AJMER: A Pocso court in Ajmer sentenced six remaining accused in the notorious 1992 Ajmer rape and blackmail case to life imprisonment on Tuesday. The court also imposed a penalty of Rs 5 lakh on each of the convicts. The Rs 30 lakh collected from the six convicts will be distributed equally to the rape…
AGRA: A fast-track court in Mainpuri sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering his 15-year-old cousin after she rejected his advances six years ago. Judge Bhoola Ram also imposed a fine of Rs 55,000 on Jitendra Kumar, 25, who was convicted of pouring kerosene on the girl and setting her alight while she was…
