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4 sentenced to one year in prison for cow slaughter

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A Indore court here today sentenced four persons to rigorous imprisonment for one year for cow slaughter. Judicial Magistrate Arun Kumar Kharadi convicted Niyazuddin (29), Irfan Sheikh (30), Shoaib (19) and Ibrahim (30) and imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 each on them, said District Prosecution Officer Mahendra Kumar Chaturvedi. He said on April 14, 2015, the […]

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Pratyusha suicide: Rahul moves HC to seek pre-arrest bail

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Television producer Rahul Raj Singh, accused of abetting suicide of his actress girlfriend Pratyusha Banerjee, today approached the Bombay High Court seeking pre-arrest bail. On April 7, a sessions court here had rejected Rahuls anticipatory bail application, following which the producer filed a plea in the high court. Rahuls bail plea is likely to be […]

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Professional drivers not complying with traffic laws: Court

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Stringent punishment should be imposed on professional drivers who drive commercial vehicles as they seem to be irresponsible and pose a serious threat to life, a Delhi court has observed in a case of drunken driving. The court made the observation while sending a 27-year- old youth to three days in jail for driving under […]

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Brothers sentenced to life for killing sibling

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Two brothers have been sentenced to life by a court here for killing their sibling more than 10 years ago. Additional District Judge Of Mathura I D Dubey has sentenced to life Ashfaq and Azad for killing their brother Istakhar Khan in 2006 in Toly Mohalla of Naujhil town of the district, government counsel Virendra […]

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Merc hit-and-run: Teenager apprehended again

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The minor boy, who had allegedly run over a 32-year-old man with his father’s Mercedes in north Delhi’s civil lines area, was today held under charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and sent to juvenile justice home, the police said. He will be produced before the Juvenile Justice Board tomorrow. The police today […]

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Shoe hurled at Kejriwal: Accused remanded to judicial custody

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A court here today remanded Ved Prakash, who hurled a shoe at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at a press conference here yesterday, to one-day judicial custody. 28-year-old Prakash, a national general secretary of Aam Aadmi Sena, was produced before a duty metropolitan magistrate and was sent to judicial custody after the police said he […]

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Coal: Panel probing ex-CBI chief gives report to SC

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Supreme Court today received an initial report of the panel appointed by it to probe the alleged scuttling of probe into the coal block allocation scam by then CBI Director Ranjit Sinha, whose meetings with accused persons have been held as “completely inappropriate”. A bench headed by Justice M B Lokur declined to make the report […]

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Madras HC suspends life term of 6 in PMK cadre murder case

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The Madras High Court today suspended the life sentence awarded to six men by a lower court in a case related to the murder of a PMK worker during clashes in Marakkanam town in Villupuram district in 2013. A bench comprising justices M Jaichandren and S Nagamuthu suspended the sentence when appeals filed by the […]

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Insurance agent gets 2 yrs RI in cheating case

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A court in Coimbatore today sentenced an insurance agent of a public sector firm to two years rigorous imprisonment in a cheating case. CBI’s anti-corruption wing registered the case against New India Assurance Company’s agent K Srinivasan on allegations that between January and March 2006, he misappropriated funds collected from various customers and issued fake and […]

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Youth gets 3-yr jail for assaulting 6-yr-old girl

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Well being of children has a direct bearing on growth of society as they are a “supremely important asset”, a Delhi court has observed while sending a youth to three years in jail for sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl. Additional Sessions Judge Gautam Manan handed down the jail term to 23-year-old Jitender, a flour mill […]

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Milk company convicted for selling substandard products

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A local milk processing company has been been found guilty and convicted for selling misbranded, substandard and unsafe milk products by a court in central Kashmirs Budgam district. The court also imposed a fine of Rs nine lakh on it. In his order yesterday, Sub Judge Imtiaz Ahmad Lone said, “Accused company M/S Khyber Agro […]

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Four sentenced for life for murdering Dalit

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Four persons have been sentenced for life by a local court in connection with a Dalit’s murder 17 years ago. Special Judge Harinath Pandey of the SC\ST court yesterday held Raja Ram, Ram Chandra, Munna and Narain Das guilty and awarded life sentence to them. The court also imposed a fine of Rs. 10,000 on each […]

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