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…
AGRA: A court in Kasganj sentenced a man, his 3 sons and two relatives to life in prison for beating a man, 50, to death three years ago. The court of additional sessions judge Sudhakar Rai also imposed a fine of Rs 72,000 on the convicts.On Oct 17, 2021, Ghamandi Singh and his sons Dansahay,…
GUWAHATI: BJP-governed Assam is ready with a proposed law mandating life imprisonment for anyone convicted of “love jihad“, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said Sunday, less than a week after the UP assembly passed a Bill amending the state’s 2021 anti-conversion legislation to increase the punishment for offences linked to marriage or elopement from the current…
LUCKNOW: Unlawful conversion in UP could henceforth invite a maximum punishment of life imprisonment, up from the current 10-year jail term, after the assembly passed a Bill on Tuesday amending the 2021 law to make it stricter, including proclaiming all such offences as non-bailable.Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2024, proposes to allow…
