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Delhi HC sets free two men accused of raping colleague

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Delhi High Court has set free two men of the charge of raping their colleague, saying there was “inconsistency” in the woman’s version about the incident. Holding that the two convicts, who have been in custody since June 2009, “deserve the benefit of doubt”, Justice S P Garg directed their release from jail immediately. “…Nothing […]

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Court discharges man of charge of raping widow

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A Delhi court has discharged a 28-year-old man from the charges of allegedly raping a 35- year-old widow on the pretext of marriage, noting that their relationship was consensual and she was a mature woman who knew its implications. Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Kumar passed the order after observing that “there was no compulsion for […]

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APSC chairman remanded in 14 days judicial custody

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Assam Pradesh Service Commission (APSC) chairman Rakesh Paul was today remanded in 14-day judicial custody by a special court here. Paul was arrested on November 4 in connection with an alleged cash-for-job scam and other cases of corruption in the Commission and his 14-day police custody ended today. Special judge A Bhattacharya directed that he […]

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Man gets life imprisonment for youth’s murder

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A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a district court for murdering a youth in his neighbourhood two years ago. District Judge Mridula V K Bhatia, while pronouncing the sentence yesterday, also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Yuva Ankush Mane, from Airoli in Navi Mumbai here. The prosecution examined as […]

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Suspected ISIS operative in 7-day police custody

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Suspected ISIS operative Jamil Ahemad, who was arrested by Anti-Terrorist Squad yesterday, was today remanded on seven days of police custody by a court here. Ahemad was arrested from his ancestral village in Fatehpur in Sikar. He had been allegedly raising funds from India, Bangladesh and UAE and transferring to the ISIS for the last […]

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Four get life imprisonment for double murder

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Four persons including a former village head have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here in a three-year-old double murder case. Additional government counsel Misqin Ali said that Sriram Nishad and his brother Chunnu belonging to Chatchatgan village were going on their motorcycle on November 2, 2013 when they were shot dead by […]

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Court allows ED for Lalit Modi’s transfer from UK

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A special PMLA court here today allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to send a Letter of Request (LR) to the British government for execution of a non-bailable warrant against former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi and his transfer to India for facing probe in a money laundering case. The ED, in its application filed on November […]

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Peter Mukerjea’s bail plea rejected by Bombay HC

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The Bombay High Court today rejected the bail plea of former media baron Peter Mukerjea, arrested in the 2012 murder case of Sheena Bora, his wife Indrani’s daughter from an earlier relationship. Justice N W Sambre, while rejecting the bail, said he would pass a reasoned order tomorrow. Peter, who was arrested in the case […]

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Senari massacre: 10 awarded capital punishment

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A district court today awarded death sentence to 10 people and life sentence to three others convicted in the case of massacre of 34 people by Maoists 17 years ago. Jehanabad Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADJ-III) Ranjit Kumar Singh passed the judgement in the case in which 34 people belonging to an upper caste […]

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Man jailed by family court in demonetisation fallout

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In a curious fallout of the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, a 70-year-old man was today sent to jail for a month by a family court which refused to accept payment of alimony of Rs 2.25 lakh to his former wife in the now-defunct notes. Additional judge Shyamal Kumar Biswas of the […]

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Sheila Dikshit’s son-in-law sent to 2-day police custody

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Former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s son-in-law was today sent to two-day police custody by a city court in a case of theft and misappropriating his wife’s property. Syed Mohammad Imran, who was arrested from Bangalore and brought here on transit remand, was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma who remanded him to police custody […]

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Kerala HC denied pre-arrest bail to local CPI(M) leader

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Kerala High Court today rejected the anticipatory bail application of a local CPI(M) leader, who has been named as an accused in a criminal case, and directed him to surrender. Justice P Ubaid asked petitioner Zakir Hussain, who has been booked on the charge of threatening a man over a business deal, to surrender before […]

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