The Haryana government has imposed a complete ban on the sale of beef in any form and proposed to provide for 10 years rigorous imprisonment for cow slaughter, but ruled out equating it with murder.
Seeking to play down the entry of vehicle carrying Sidhu into the court complex, Jain said, "Sidhu is not at fault. He sat in another car while we had given a number of other vehicles which were supposed to bring him to court."
Romesh Sharma, the alleged front-man of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, was on Monday sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment in a 12-year-old tax evasion case. Besides the sentence, Additional Chief metropolitan Magistrate Kanwaljeet Arora also imposed a fine of Rs 3 lakh on Sharma.
Metropolitan Magistrate Anuradha Shukla handed down the sentence after finding Arun Kumar Goenka guilty under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act.
The bench terms the "two-finger test" as a violation of a woman's dignity and privacy.
A CBI court in Bangalore has sentenced Abdul Karim Telgi and two associates to five years' rigorous imprisonment for floating three fictitious firms trading in stamp paper and duping the Karnataka government, a PSU and four private firms of several lakh rupees.
Two troopers who had been taken into custody following the announcement of court martial proceedings against them were awarded a rank demotion besides rigorous imprisonment to one and a severe reprimand to the other.
The Judge had issued notice to Sehrunissa, Zaheera and her other family members to show cause why action should not be taken against them for giving false evidence.
While the concerned property may be confiscated, a person indulging in such a transaction is liable to pay a fine up to 25 per cent of fair market value of the property
Souces said family members, including Sanjay's sister and Congress MP Priya Dutt, were waiting for release orders from the Supreme Court.
The same sentence was also given to former officers K M Prasad (assistant director), Brajnandan Prasad Verma, Chandra Kishore Lal, Hemendra Kumar, Sunil Kumar Sinha, Braj Bhusan Prasad and Bhubaneswar Sahay.
'Did you hear anybody express any sympathy for Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, who has been receiving threats for the better part of the past decade?'
Hours after Telgi pleaded guilty and repented his actions, Judge Chitra Bhedi of a special court pronounced the quantum of punishment under various sections of the IPC and the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act.
Raju and his brother B Rama Raju were told to furnish personal bonds of Rs 100,000 each
Wednesday's sentencing takes the total number of convicts sentenced in the case to 71 while 29 more are yet to be awarded punishment.
Judge J K N Tiwari sentenced 13 of them to three years' rigorous imprisonment and slapped fines ranging between Rs 45,000 and Rs 65,000.
He is the third army personnel to be convicted by the army court in the Tehelka case.
The accused was an important link in the scam with German national Freddy Peats, who operated the sex racket in Goa until his arrest in 1991, which subsequently led to his conviction five years later.
The stringent Prevention of Money Laundering Act, which was recently amended to remove certain shortcomings, will come into force from July 1.
In yet another blow to jailed RJD MP Mohammed Shahabuddin, a special court in Bihar's Siwan district on Friday sentenced him to one-year rigorous imprisonment in a case, in which he threatened to kill officer in-charge of a police station.
A General Court Martial found Col Sehgal of the Directorate of Ordnance Services guilty of three of the four charges against him, sources said.
Telgi has already been sentenced to 13 years RI by a Pune court in connection with the fake stamp paper scam. Today's sentence will run concurrently along with the Pune court order.
Major Surinder Singh was held guilty of all charges and sentenced to three years of rigorous imprisonment.
Two of the five accused have been acquitted.
After Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, Haryana has become the third state where the assembly has approved the provision of capital punishment for such sexual offenders, the House was informed.
The actor, who is out on interim bail granted by the Supreme Court, has to surrender when he is handed a copy of the judgment by the TADA court. He had spent a few weeks in jail prior to being granted bail.
For the first time, the main accused in 23 cases was convicted.
His bail plea will come up for hearing only on Thursday.
A book, Mr and Mrs Dutt, Memories of our Parents, chronicling the lives of the Dutts, is scheduled to be released by Roli Books later this month.
He had ran over seven construction workers.
Gangsters Ejaz Pathan and Shaikh Ali Shaikh Umar were given terms today.
The special TADA court also sentenced Shaikh Mohammed Ehtesham to 10 years RI.
The special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Act) Court on Monday sentenced four former police constables to six years' rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 25,000 each for their role in the 1993 serial blasts case.
According to the counsel, Sidhu cannot consume wheat, sugar, 'maida' and some other food items. After the board of doctors carry out a medical examination, a report will be submitted in the court of chief judicial magistrate, he said.
The Delhi high court on Friday modified its order granting interim bail to expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar, serving life term for raping a minor in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao in 2017, by asking him to surrender after his daughter's 'tilak' ceremony and then be released again before her marriage.
Afzal had sought review of the judgment saying that he did not a get fair trial.
