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10 years RI for Park Street rape convicts

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All the three convicts in the Park Street gangrape case were today sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment by a Sessions Court, over three years after the assault on a 40-year-old mother of two teenage daughters in a moving car here. Additional sessions judge Chiranjib Bhattacharya sentenced Ruman Khan, Naser Khan and Sumit Bajaj to […]

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Danish woman gangrape: Accused claim innocence

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Two of the accused, who are facing trial for allegedly gangraping a 52-year-old Danish woman here last year, today claimed innocence in a Delhi court saying the police has falsely implicated them in the case. Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Kaveri Baweja recorded the statements of accused Mahender and Arjun in which they both denied the […]

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Ex-RJD MP Md Shahbuddin given lifer in murder case

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Former RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin was today sentenced to life imprisonment along with three others by a district court in connection with the brutal murder of two brothers by pouring acid on them 11 years ago in Siwan district of Bihar. Additional District Judge Ajay Kumar Srivastava awarded the life sentence to Shahabuddin and his […]

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Rapist sentenced to 7 years in jail

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A Pratapgarh (UP) court has awarded seven years rigorous imprisonment to a person for raping a girl in Maheshganj area of the district. Additional Sessions Judge Bhairav Lal awarded seven years rigorous imprisonment to Ravindra Prasad Mishra yesterday for raping a girl in a village in Maheshganj in October 2012. The court also imposed fine of Rs […]

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Court puts Tytler, Verma on trial in cheating case

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A Delhi court today put on trial Congress leader Jagdish Tytler and controversial arms dealer Abhishek Verma after framing charges against them for allegedly writing a forged letter addressed to then Prime Minister Manmohan Singhin 2009. Special CBI judge Anju Bajaj Chandna put Tytler and Verma on trial after framing charges for the alleged offences […]

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Bombay HC begins dictation of verdict in Salman’s case

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The Bombay High Court on Monday said it would give its ruling on the applicability of culpable homicide charge against Bollywood star Salman Khan in the 2002 hit-and-run case and also on other key questions like the admissibility of the statement of the actor’s former body guard as evidence. This was stated by Justice A.R. […]

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J Dey murder case: Daily trial from Dec 17

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A special court will start the trial of the journalist J Dey murder case on a daily basis from December 17. Underworld don Chhota Rajan was shown as an absconding accused in the case. “The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court will start recording the statements of witnesses from December 17 on a day-to-day […]

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Espionage: Rasheed,3 others sent to police custody till Dec 10

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BSF head constable Abdul Rasheed and three others arrested for allegedly supplying sensitive documents to Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI, were today remanded to police custody till December 10 by a Delhi court. Besides Rasheed, the Crime Branch of Delhi Police produced Munawwar Ahmad Mir, a former army personnel, Mohd Sabar, a teacher by profession and […]

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Acid attack: SC asks states, UTs to give free treatment

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The Supreme Court today directed all the states and union territories (UTs) to compensate, rehabilitate and provide free treatment to the survivors of acid attacks in pursuance of guidelines issued by it earlier. A bench of justices M Y Eqbal and C Nagappan gave the direction while dealing with a case of an acid attack […]

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CBI asked to hand over Rajan’s medicines to Tihar authorities

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A Delhi court has directed CBI to hand over a bag containing medicines, which was found in possession of underworld don Chhota Rajan when he was arrested in Indonesia, to the superintendent of Tihar Jail where he is currently lodged under judicial custody. The courts order came after Rajans counsel filed a plea seeking direction […]

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Chetia’ bail plea rejected,remanded to 14 day judicial custody

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ULFA leader Golap Baruah alias Anup Chetia’s bail plea was today rejected and he was remanded to another 14 days in judicial custody after his remand in connection with a CBI case ended today. Chetia was produced in the court of the Special Judicial Magistrate, CBI, Assam on expiry of the tenure of his judicial […]

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Man acquitted in honour killing case

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Due to lack of evidence, a Muzaffarnagar court today acquitted a man accused of killing his sister at Kidwai nagar, in a suspected case of honour killing. Additional district sessions judge, Ghanshyam Pathak acquitted Majid, accused of killing his 21-year-old sister, saying that the prosecution had failed to prove charges against him. According to the prosecution, […]

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