Rajya Sabha member Rasheed Masood, convicted for fraudulently nominating undeserving candidates to MBBS seats in 1990-91, on Tuesday sought benefit of probation in a Delhi court, citing his long service to the nation and health reasons even as the Central Bureau of Investigation demanded nothing less than seven years jail term for him and a hefty fine.
India-born Dharun Ravi, convicted of hate crime for spying on his gay roommate and sentenced to 30 days in jail, could end up spending only 20 days behind bars due to prison regulations in New Jersey that give credit to inmates for good behaviour.
India-born Dharun Ravi, convicted of hate crime for spying on his gay roommate and sentenced to 30 days in jail, could end up spending only 20 days behind bars due to prison regulations in New Jersey that give credit to inmates for good behaviour.
An Indian man, who had been convicted of sexually abusing his wife and treating her like a slave, will not go to prison for his crimes but has been sentenced to three years' probation and ordered to do over 200 hours of community service.
The distraught parents of Dharun Ravi, sentenced for a month in prison for spying on his gay roommate, said he has suffered "enough" while the mother of his roommate who committed suicide said her family has never heard an apology from the Indian-origin young man.
A Pakistani man, who inadvertently helped fund the failed Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad last year, has been sentenced to three years probation.
Three persons were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court on Monday for their involvement in the killings of a 70-year-old Dalit and his physically-challenged daughter at Haryana's Mirchpur village in April last year. While sentencing Kulwinder, Ramphal and Rajender to life term, Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau sentenced five others to varying jail terms up to five years while letting off seven others on probation for one year.
An Indian-American woman with close ties to disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been sentenced to four years of probation and ordered to pay $200,000 in fines and restitution after she pleaded guilty to billing the state for drug tests her firm never performed.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has fined runaway wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider half a million rupees ($5,200) but allowed him to resume playing cricket under probation. Haider fled the team hotel in Dubai last November while playing in a one-day series against South Africa and landed in London.
Serena Williams escaped with a $2,000 fine on Monday when tennis officials ruled that her verbal abuse of an umpire during Sunday's U.S. Open final was not a major offense.
The SRB, at its meeting, recommended release of 22 convicts on completion of their sentences and rejected 86 other cases, including the three high-profile murder cases.
The court had on November 25 convicted five SIMI activists and acquitted 11 others in the case relating to a 'secret' meeting of the banned outfit at Pannayikulam near Aluva in 2006.
Former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore would have to undergo his 18-month prison term with the Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday dismissing his plea challenging the sentence awarded to him for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra about 20 years back.
Woods suffered serious injuries to both legs in Tuesday's wreck and was initially listed in serious but stable condition, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby told reporters. CNN reported Woods sustained compound fractures to his legs.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved 'Mission Karmayogi', dubbed as the biggest bureaucratic reform initiative, aimed at capacity building of government employees to make them more "creative, proactive, professional and technology-enabled". The core guiding principles of the competency-driven programme will be to support a transition from "rules based to roles based" HR management to prepare the Indian civil servant for the future, according to a government statement.
The 16-year-old boy, who has not been named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to being an accessory to the murder of 21-year-old Garg in Cruickshank Park on January 2, according to 'The Age'.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) put an end to the international careers of former captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan besides imposing a one-year ban on Shoaib Malik in the wake of the team's disastrous tour of Australia.
The actress has also bee been ordered to go through random weekly drug tests.
Pakistan wicket-keeper batsman Kamran Akmal and his younger brother Umar have become the first players to file a formal appeal against the ban and fine imposed on them last month by the Cricket Board (PCB).
Pakistan Twenty20 skipper Shahid Afridi and former captain Younis Khan have appealed against the penalties imposed on them by the country's cricket board.
All-rounder Shahid Afridi will captain Pakistan at this year's Twenty20 World Cup in West Indies, the Pakistan Cricket Board said on Tuesday.
Reema Shah pleaded guilty to insider trading and cooperated with the US government for accepting insider info from a Yahoo! executive
These pilots have completed their probation and all endorsements, but the company has decided not to renew their service contracts in view of the huge losses and capacity reduction.
Faced with mounting costs and falling revenues, private airline Jet Airways has laid off 110 employees.Of these employees, 50 are contract employees who have 'superannuated,' and another 60 are probationary cabin-crew.
Girija Tripathi's licence for her NGO was suspended in 2017.
The Lahore high court lifted an 18-month ban on Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar for indiscipline. However, it did not remove the seven million rupees ($101,000) fine imposed by the Pakistan Cricket Board appellate tribunal last month.
Maryland House Majority Leader, Kumar Barve, 49, the longest-serving Indian American legislator who was first elected in 1990, and has served in this leadership position since 2003 making him one of the most influential politicians in the state, has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol, and under a plea agreement received no jail time but only unsupervised probation and ordered to pay a fine of $200 and court costs.
Their bail expired on Monday and their lawyers sought more time for their surrender citing family circumstances.
The counsel for convicts had on Wednesday submitted that they should either be sentenced only to a fine or be released on probation; a custodial punishment was not mandatory for the provisions of the law under which they have been held guilty.
The counsel for Sanjeev Nanda, convicted by a Delhi court in the 1999 BMW hit-and-run case, on Wednesday sought his release on probation, highlighting the good work done by him in Tihar jail by conducting English and computer classes for inmates.At the end of the arguments of sentence, the court put off the pronouncement of sentence till September 5.
The activities at the shelter home came to the fore when a girl managed to flee from there.
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During the probation period of six months, CAs will get a lump sum payment of Rs 50,000 a month.
A rogue BMW driver and his friend, who knocked down a rickshaw puller and beat him up in a road rage incident have been given a chance by a Delhi court to reform.The two men in their early 20s, who were held guilty of rash driving and assault, were released on probation by the court on the condition that they would help the rickshaw puller's children in their studies.
However, his lawyer Farhana Shah told PTI the court would not necessarily decide on Dutt's application seeking relief under the Probation of Offenders Act on that day. "The court has merely asked him to be present on Friday," she said.
The PCB said Shoaib Akhtar had been found guilty of five breaches of the code of conduct.
The Bollywood star was found guilty of possessing a 9 mm pistol and an AK-56 rifle. Under the Arms Act, Dutt faces punishment ranging from five to ten years.
The 58-year-old pointed to the 26-point gap in the Premier League table between runners-up Liverpool and his fourth-placed former team as evidence of a massive gulf between the sides.
A policeman carries out a security check on actor Sanjay Dutt as he arrives at the Terrorist And Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court in Mumbai on Thursday.
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