The Supreme Court on Friday directed the premature release of six convicts, including Nalini Sriharan and R P Ravichandran, serving life term in the assassination case of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, noting that the Tamil Nadu government has recommended remission of their sentence.
The Bombay high court on Friday admitted an appeal filed by gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli against a lower court order sentencing him to life imprisonment for the murder of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar in 2007.
Despite being 90% handicapped, suffering from multiple ailments and dependent on a wheelchair, the former Delhi University professor has not been able to step out of the anda cell of the Nagpur Jail at all since his conviction.
The Delhi high court on Monday issued a notice to separatist leader Yasin Malik, who is currently serving a life term, on a plea by the National Investigation Agency seeking death penalty for him in a terror funding case.
The convicted person, who sexually assaulted a minor girl in 2015, was sentenced to 10 years of rigourous imprisonment by a Special Judge at Eluru in West Godavari district in 2016, including a penalty of Rs 5,000 levied on him.
Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-origin American citizen charged with criminal conspiracy in the Mumbai terror attacks, could face the 'maximum statutory penalty' of life imprisonment or death if convicted.This was contained in additional charges unsealed at a Chicago court, which is hearing the case against 49-year-old Headley, who was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in October, along with LeT operative Tahawwur Hussain Rana.
A sessions court in Palanpur town of Gujarat's Banaskantha district on Wednesday convicted former Indian Police Service officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a drug seizure case dating back to 1996.
The bench felt that there was no basis for giving credence to the claims of the accused as the testimony pertaining to the seizure of the hawala money made by a private individual Tejinder Singh matched with that of the prosecution.
The bench also pulled up the investigating officer of the case for not conducting a proper investigation.
Sixteen people were Friday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court for the murder of eight persons during communal riots which at Idgah Park near Sadar Bazar area in November 1990.
The Central Bureau of Investigation's Special Court in Kochi on Thursday sentenced former Inspector General of Police K Lakshamana to life imprisonment in the Naxal Varghese murder case. On Wednesday, the court had convicted Lakshamana for the brutal killing of Varghese, who was shot dead in Waynad forests 40 years ago.The accused was convicted under Section 302 and Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code.
Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has included Mishaal Hussain Malik, wife of jailed terrorist and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik, in his cabinet.
Singh, along with three others, was convicted by the court on Tuesday in connection with the killing of Lalalan Singh, a mukhiya (head) of Sakarpur village in Nawada district on January 6 2006.
President Pratibha Patil has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence given to eight murder convicts in two separate cases.
'A murder has occurred in the room, but there were no signs of struggle.' 'RG Kar says the body was discovered at 9:30 am. But the media was informed at 8:30 am.' 'We realised that crucial evidence was being destroyed.' 'She had several bite marks on her neck, but no swab was collected.' 'My daughter had 28 injuries on her body. But there was no DNA of the assailant under her nails.' 'Are you saying she did not try to defend herself?'
India-born Dhiren Barot plotted to 'kill thousands' in the US and UK.
The high court of Karnataka has asked the Centre to amend the relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) or bring in new ones criminalizing and providing for punishment for 'carnal intercourse' with corpses.
Balbir Matharu, 54, who hailed from Punjab, was killed after confronting the drug addict duo when he saw one of them smash the window of his white Mercedes van. Matharu was working at his family building firm in Stratford in east London when the incident occurred on January 12, 2006.He chased the thieves, who ran and jumped into a waiting Ford Mondeo and knocked him as he tried to stop their getaway."The crime is beneath contempt," Judge Moss told the brothers.
The RJD has fielded six women candidates, some of them are wives of bahubalis.
In a move that could benefit Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney on Thursday asked President Pervez Musharraf to convert all death sentences in the country to life imprisonment. "This is an issue on which we have spoken several times during our meetings and an issue on which I have already sent several appeals," the former human rights minister said.
The court, however, rejected the prosecution's contention that the offence fell under the 'rarest of the rare' category.
Special NIA judge Gurvinder Singh Mehrotra, who had on October 27 pronounced the nine guilty, also sentenced two other accused to life imprisonment, besides awarding 10 years rigorous imprisonment to as many and seven years in jail to another convict.
Ahmad, a former Uttar Pradesh MLA and Lok Sabha MP, was brought back to the high-security jail in Gujarat in a UP police van after a nearly 24-hour-long road journey from Prayagraj.
Judge Adrian Fulford said all the four convicts must spend a minimum of 40 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole.
Suspended Delhi University Professor G N Saibaba and five others were on Tuesday convicted by a sessions court for their links with the Maoists.
A British man, who killed an elderly Indian driver by mowing him down with his own taxi, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Luke Aujila, 21, who was inebriated, attacked 71-year-old Gian Chand Bajar after an argument over the fare in Gravesend, Kent, on May 23 in 2007.Judge Andrew Patience told Aujila that he would spend 20 years in prison for his 'utterly wicked' act before becoming eligible for parole.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Bill which is proposed to replace the British-era Indian Penal Code (IPC) does away with two contentious provisions on unnatural sex and adultery that were diluted and struck down respectively by the Supreme Court in 2018.
Months after a 17 year-old-girl was gang-raped in a moving car in Surat, a district court today sentenced three youths, including two who are sons of policemen, to life imprisonment in the case that sent shock waves across the country.
Mohammed Iqbal Yusuf Shaikh, who planted a scooter bomb, was sentenced to death for his role in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
In his order, the judge expressed displeasure over slaughtering of cows and noted a cow is "our mother", not just an animal.
Romesh Sharma, alleged frontman of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim,was on Monday given life imprisonment in fashion designer Kunjum Budhiraja murder case.
The court in Panchkula had convicted Ram Rahim and four others -- Krishan Lal, Jasbir Singh, Avtar Singh and Sabdil -- in the murder case on October 8.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has brought back Salman Rehman Khan, an alleged member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, from Rwanda. Khan was wanted by the NIA for terror-related offences in Bengaluru. He was traced to Rwanda and returned to India on November 28, 2024. The return of Khan comes after similar operations in coordination with Interpol, where two other accused were brought back from Saudi Arabia.
Somnath Thapa, who was to be sentenced on Tuesday by the court, failed to appear stating that he was suffering from viral fever while he is already a cancer patient.
The judge will hear arguments on the quantum of punishment on July 12 and the convicts can get a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for the offences.
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday upheld life imprisonment to five persons, who gang-raped a 24-year-old city girl after a New Year night party in 2003, at a hotel, where she was lured by her boyfriend Sajal Jain.
The lawyer of the accused in an earlier hearing had denied the charge of premeditated murdered and said his client was "too drunk" to know what he was doing.
A 60-year-old Dalit man and his physically challenged daughter were burnt alive by members of the Jat community in Mirchpur village in Haryana's Hisar district in April 2010.
If the DMK is able to sustain the momentum until the assembly polls, the AIADMK especially and the PMK and possibly the infant TVK too would find it hard to sign up with the BJP, explains N Sathiya Moorthy.
Senior advocate Vikas Singh, representing Kumar, said that his client be granted bail as if something happens to him in jail then his life imprisonment would become death penalty for him.
