A sessions court today awarded life sentence to suspended State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) officer Manohar Kadam in 1997 Ramabai firing case after observing that the convict had "knowledge of the consequences" of opening fire at a mob that had resulted in killing of 10 persons.
Two more doctors in Modasa town, at whose clinic several Hepatitis patients were treated, have been booked under charges of culpable homicide, police said today.
The collapse of a three-storey building in Punjab's Mohali has claimed two lives, with rescuers pulling out the body of a man and a fatally injured woman from under the rubble during a multi-agency 23-hour rescue operation that concluded Sunday evening, officials said.
A police outpost in-charge has also been suspended for not heeding to the family's complaint, in which they had alleged that the woman was sexually assaulted.
The judge ordered Pereira to pay a fine of Rs five lakh, to be distributed among the next of kin of the deceased and eight injured.
Sanjeev Nanda, prime accused in the BMW hit-and-run incident, was convicted by a Delhi court on Tuesday. Nanda's car mowed down six persons, including three cops, were in 1999.
Another partner or co-owner of the firm that operated the recreation facility has been nabbed which took the number of persons arrested in the case to five, officials said.
One of the key witnesses in the 2002 hit-and-run case involving Bollywood actor Salman Khan has allegedly received "threat" calls asking him to accept Rs 5 lakh for "staying away" from the case, police said on Tuesday.
Government Railway Police personnel arrested Mirthala station master Ram Lal from his native village in Himachal Pradesh.
Sidhu is the only MP to appear in a number of advertisements and programmes.
Sidhu has been pronounced guilty of culpable homicide in a 1988 murder case under Indian Penal Code Section 304. The quantum of Sidhu's punishment will be decided on Wednesday.
Nawajish Shahid, the son of SP MLA and former minister Shahid Manzoor, was picked up from Meerut and arrested subsequently, a police officer said.
Kaizad Gustad and his associates Ashish Udeshi and Hedley D'Mello have been charged with 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder'.
The SP said Chopra is the kingpin of drugs in Hamirpur and added that this is the seventh case registered against him under the NDPS Act.
The Gujarat high court on Monday said it does not have faith in the state machinery which gets into action only after innocent lives are lost, as it pulled up the Rajkot civic body over the purported lapses in functioning of the game zone facility where a massive fire killed 27 persons.
South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal said on Tuesday it will announce on December 3 if it will overturn Oscar Pistorius's conviction of manslaughter for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a decision that could send the track star back to jail.
If you dump garbage in your neighbour's place, and he kills you, it is not murder at all, the Supreme Court has said in a judgment.
According to the officials, the three-storey coaching institute, surrounded by residential and commercial establishments, had permission to use the basement as a store room, but it was being used as library in violation of the rules.
The death toll in the BEST bus accident in Mumbai has risen to seven, officials on Tuesday said as experts inspected the wet leased vehicle to ascertain if it had any mechanical fault.
As the incident came to light on Tuesday, locals caught hold of Arjun and beaten him black and blue before handing over to police in a serious condition after which he was admitted to a local hospital.
A case under Section 301 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against him.
In his application, Sidhu said he was willing to surrender before the court since his case is now before the Supreme Court since the suspension of sentence.
The Goa Children's Court had acquitted both last year.
The death toll due to sunstroke at the 'Maharashtra Bhushan' award event in Navi Mumbai rose to 14 after the death of a 34-year-old woman while seven patients are undergoing treatment, a civic official said on Tuesday.
The ceremony was organised in a sprawling 306-acre ground in Kharghar area on Sunday morning, which was attended by several lakh people, most of them followers of Dharmadhikari who was conferred with Maharashtra's top civilian award by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Another arrested for Nadia Khan's death
The department of correctional services said in a statement on Thursday that the Olympic and Paralympic track star would be placed under house arrest from Tuesday.
In its latest report, "Crime in India", the bureau says a total of 5,531,172 cognisable crimes were registered, of which 1,780,330 were crime covered by the Indian Penal Code.
Jailed South African Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius was granted parole on Friday more than 10 years after murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, and will be released on January 5
Neerajkumar Desai's firm had reportedly carried out the structural audit of the bridge and declared it safe for use despite some corrosion in the structure, police said.
The Bombay high court on Wednesday deferred till July 13 an appeal filed by Bollywood superstar Salman Khan against the five-year sentence awarded to him in the hit-and-run case, after the actor's lawyer sought time to check documents.
Sexual intercourse, including unnatural act, by a man with his adult wife, even without her consent, can not be treated as an offence, the Chhattisgarh high court held while acquitting a Jagdalpur resident who was convicted of rape and other charges.
The sessions court in Mumbai rejected the actor's plea to drop the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
If the prosecution's plea is accepted, the court would frame charges against the actor or else the charges would be dropped.
The police has arrested Jahnvi Gadkar, 35, a high court lawyer, who appeared to be in an inebriated condition at the time of the accident.
Jayagopal, a former councillor who had been booked by the police on charges of attempt to commit culpable homicide, was nabbed from Krishnagiri district in western Tamil Nadu, police said.
The 11 people were discharged on February 4 by the trial court, which said they were made 'scapegoats' by police and that dissent has to be encouraged, not stifled.
The Delhi police told a court in Delhi that they were probing the "larger conspiracy" behind the "brutal attack" on Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar.
The Mumbai high court had dropped the charge of 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder' framed against him by a lower court.
