NEW DELHI: A special court on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in murder case in connection with 1984 anti-Sikh riots.Kumar was convicted for the murder of a father-son duo in November 1984 in Delhi’s Saraswati Vihar. Last week, the public prosecutor submitted that the death penalty should be imposed, citing…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday took exception to Delhi govt’s stand that a convict, sentenced to life imprisonment with 20 years of jail term without remission, could not be released even after completion of the period.A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan expressed surprise over the oral submission made by the Delhi…
NEW DELHI: Two youths from Rajpura in Patiala district, who were among 116 individuals deported by the US in a C-17 aircraft that landed at the Amritsar airport on Saturday night, have been arrested in connection with a murder case, police said on Sunday.The accused individuals, Sandeep Singh alias Sunny and Pradeep Singh, were wanted…
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…
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…
HYDERABAD: In less than a week, another elderly couple — an 80-year-old former bank employee and his 75-year-old wife — were found murdered at their residence in Sai Baba Colony in Amberpet. Police suspect it could be a case of murder for gain.Incidentally, it came to light on a day police cracked the double murder…
Salman Khan’s father and veteran screenwriter Salim Khan has firmly dismissed any connection between the killing of NCP leader Baba Siddique and the Bollywood superstar. In an interview with ABP News, Salim Khan shared the family’s perspective on the heightened security concerns surrounding Salman, addressing the implications of Siddique’s recent assassination. Over the past year,…
Renukaswamy (Left) was ‘tortured’ and ‘murdered’ by Darshan (right) and his wife Sahana, the wife of the late Renukaswamy, who was allegedly murdered by Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa and others, gave birth to a baby boy at a private hospital in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The family reported that both mother and child are in good…
CUTTACK: More than 17 years after a 25-year-old woman walked into a police station in Odisha’s Sundargarh district and confessed to killing her husband, the Orissa high court has overturned the life sentence awarded to her, saying the trial court verdict was based on “surmises and conjectures”, and was a “miscarriage of justice“.Laulina Achariya of…
In a major development in the murder case of Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Baba Siddique, police have arrested the third suspect, Pravin Lonkar. The 28-year-old was apprehended in Pune and is the brother of Shubham Lonkar, who is also implicated in the conspiracy. The Lonkar brothers allegedly enlisted Dharmaraj Kashyap and Shivkumar Gautam…
