Two former Uphaar cinema managers, undergoing seven years' rigorous imprisonment in the 1997 cinema hall fire tragedy case, on Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court challenging their conviction.
The Lucknow bench directed that the convicts serve their sentence in jail and also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each on them.
Dara Singh, serving a life sentence for the murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines, was on Saturday sentenced to a life term for the killing of a Catholic priest in Mayurbhanj district eight years ago.
A bench, comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice R V Raveendran, however, issued notices to state of Maharashtra, returnable by three weeks, on a petition filed by Ibrahim Musa Chauhan.
A Delhi court sentenced a Pakistani national to six years rigorous imprisonment on Friday for opening fire at the police and army personnel in an encounter during search operation in Jammu and Kashmir in 2004.
Under the bill, cow slaughter will be an offence punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may be extended up to 10 year.
Rashtriya Janata Dal MP from Siwan Mohammed Shahabuddin gets three years' rigorous imprisonment
Former Haryana Director General of Police S P S Rathore was on Monday convicted of molesting a minor girl 19 years back, but escaped with a lighter six-month jail term for the crime against the budding tennis player, who committed suicide three years later.
A Delhi court awarded rigorous imprisonment of 14 years to the lone arrested convict in the sensational Dhaula Kuan gangrape case on Thursday in which a Delhi University student was ravished in a moving car in 2005.
Pathan was suffering from various ailments, including blood clots in the brain, and had suffered a paralytic attack earlier.
Altogether, 38 other suppliers, including five women, were sentenced to prison terms ranging between two and a half years and five years and a fine of up to Rs 2.75 lakh each.
They were sentenced for their involvement in landing the arms and explosives used in the blasts.
Mohammad Afroze has been found guilty under Sections 120-b (conspiracy) and Section 126 of the Indian Penal Code (committing depredation on territories of power at peace with the Government of India).
The district and sessions court also convicted three others in the case, including a driver of the Women and Child Development Minister, and awarded them three months rigorous imprisonment. They were also fined Rs 15,500 each by the court of district and sessions judge Urmila Joshi.
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.
His sentence has been suspended from January 27 to February 10 in the rape case and in another for which he is serving 10 years' imprisonment for the death of the rape victim's father in custody.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
