Courts should record "special" reasons while awarding death penalty and "must" take into account the crime and the character of the criminal which should reflect "extreme depravity" to deserve such a punishment, the Supreme Court has ruled.
The apex court said the post mortem report reveals that the cause of death was electric shock and there is no conclusive evidence that the death was homicidal.
There is more to Arshad Warsi than meets the eye. Much more.
Nearly a dozen first information reports have been lodged since the Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, was notified on November 27.
The US has the distinction of destroying a flawed but functioning State thrice since 1979. Pakistan has been their constant accomplice, explains Shekhar Gupta.
The girl was shifted to Delhi's Safdarjung hospital after her condition deteriorated and she died on Monday.
India may get access for the second time to Mumbai attacks terrorist David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
The cases have been registered in Lahore, Gujranwala and Multan for collection of funds for terror financing through assets/properties made and held in the names of Trusts/ Non Profit Organisations including Al-Anfaal Trust, Dawatul Irshad Trust and Muaz Bin Jabal Trust.
Gosavi's photos and videos with actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan went viral on social media after the NCB's raid.
There was one case of cow-smuggling against Umar at the Govindgarh police station of Alwar, which was registered in 2012.
The video shows Jutt, carrying an automatic rifle, exchanging hugs with some Hibzul Mujahideen terrorists, although police officials refused to comment on the video saying they were verifying its veracity.
Abu Hanzala managed to escape after at least two other terrorists attacked the police escort team at SMHS Hospital, killing two cops.
Post-mortems of 16 more suspected hooch victims were conducted here in the last two days, raising their number to 87, but authorities on Wednesday kept the official death toll in tragedy pegged at 35.
I went to the NIA office on my own and was arrested, the police officer said, adding he had not confessed to anything.
A foreign national has been arrested by Pakistani security agencies in connection with the car bomb blast outside the house of the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind and chief of the banned Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) Hafiz Saeed in Lahore, according to media reports.
A suspect in the 2008 Ahmedabad blasts was killed and two of his accomplices arrested in an encounter with the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad on Monday, which also left a constable wounded at Aurangabad. The deceased has been identified as Khaleel, a resident of Gulmohar Colony in Ahmedabad, said the police.
The MP claimed that Siddiqui's radio station was funded by US-based Pakistanis and the Pakistan government.
Backed by a court order, India is expected seek extradition of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba operative David Coleman Headley and his accomplice Tawwahur Rana. But this is going to be an uphill task for investigators, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
A Pakistan-trained militant was Tuesday sentenced to 20 years in jail, while his accomplice awarded 15-year prison term for triggering the 1993 serial blasts in Jaipur.
The fraud was operated from call centres in India to defraud hundreds of elderly and vulnerable people in the US, CBI officials said.
Apprehending threat to the life of family members, father of the child rape-victim has moved the Supreme Court on Thursday opposing the bail plea of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu.
The ED will soon file a complaint under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to probe criminal proceeds of crime that were allegedly generated by Dubey, his associates and family members and if this money was subsequently used for creation of illegal movable and immovable properties.
After the incident, the family members along with others took the two dead bodies and blocked National Highway 91 demanding for a fair investigation in the matter.
A regular morning cup of tea proved fatal for two unarmed policemen who were gunned down by a terrorist in broad daylight in an upmarket Srinagar area, an incident witnessed by several people and captured on CCTV cameras, police said on Friday.
Some burqa-clad militants on Friday opened fire in a busy market in Pulwama, about 35 kms from Srinagar, when confronted by police, leaving three civilians, including two women injured, police said.
As per the charges, these proscribed outfits were operating under the guise of charities and were involved in funnelling funds to terror suspects.
Three years after Ajmal Amir Kasab and his accomplices convulsed the country's financial capital, the survivors of 26/11 terror attacks are still waiting for the day when the convicted Pakistani gunman will be hanged.
The accused has been identified as Nonu, police said, adding the stolen items have been recovered.
In all this, the political establishment -- and especially the finance ministry -- appears the weakest link, and worse still, the possible reason for the political backing to Narain and Ramkrishna that emboldened them to defy all the sentinels -- the independent board, the auditors, top management persons like the chief compliance officer, the company secretary, and unbelievably the super-regulator Sebi, observes V Ranganathan.
A 50-year-old man was allegedly shot dead in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district by an accused out on bail in a case of molestation lodged in 2018 against the victim's daughter, police said.
In searches carried out in the city earlier, the NIA had arrested two people -- Mohammed Azarudheen and Shiek Hidayathulla.
Police said the gangster snatched a pistol from one of the policemen injured in the accident and was shot when he opened fire while trying to flee.
NIA chief Sharad Kumar will personally interrogate Lashkar-e-Tayiba's Pakistani militant Mohammed Naved Yakub, who was captured after Wednesday's attack on a Border Security Forces convoy and was on Tuesday remanded in the custody of the anti-terror agency by a Jammu court.
In the wake of the Pune blast, the Gujarat police is keeping a close watch over all the places in the state which US terror suspect David Headley's accomplice had visited in November 2008.
The arrest happened in a very well-planned way as first Dubey was in Faridabad and in just 12 hours he reached the door of Mahakal (in Ujjain), Kamalkant Mishra said.
'Imagine China pursuing its aims in Jammu and Kashmir by using Pakistani and now Afghan proxies.'
In a disturbing reminder of the December 16, 2012, gang-rape in Delhi, a woman was allegedly raped in a moving local bus in Bhopal after she had boarded it late last night, police said on Thursday.
'The BJP's solo aim in Mumbai and Maharashtra is to finish off the Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawar's NCP.'
A hunt has been launched for a businessman who is alleged to have paid money to Mohammed Naved Yakub, a Pakistani terrorist who was caught alive last week after the Udhampur terror strike in which two Border Security Force personnel were killed.
The driver, identified as Khursheed Ahmed alias 'Surya', said to be an overground operative of the banned LeT, is a resident of Awantipura.
