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Sheena murder case:Indrani gives consent for voice sample test

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Indrani Mukherjea, the prime accused in Sheena Boramurder case, today gave her consent before a court here for conduct of voice sample test on her. “I give my consent for the test,” she told the court. CBI had last week moved an application before the court seeking her voice samples for verification, as it has […]

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Court says no to shifting of Vicky Tyagi’s wife

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A local court of Muzaffarnagar (UP) today refused to allow the shifting of Minu Tyagi, the widow of slain gangster Vicky Tyagi, from Muzaffarnagar district jail to Saharanpur. Additional district and sessions judge Narender Kumar rejected the application of the Muzaffarnagar district jail authorities seeking permission to shift Minu from the prison. Minu had been shifted […]

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Constable murder case: SIMI leader’s aide gets bail

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A special court of Bhopal here today granted bail to key SIMI leader Abu Faizal’s accomplice Mahtab who has been convicted for abetting the murder of a police constable in 2009. Additional Sessions Judge B S Bhadoria ordered that Mahtab be released on bail after he has furnished a personal bond of Rs 25000 and security […]

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Uber cab rape: Court likely to pronounce sentence

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The Uber cab driver, who was held guilty of raping a woman passenger in his taxi and trying to strangulate her while committing the act last year, is likely to be sentenced today by a Delhi court. Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja, who had convicted 32-year-old Shiv Kumar Yadav, is scheduled to hear arguments on […]

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Two sentenced in gangrape case

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A fast track court of Muzaffarnagar today sentenced two persons to 20 years imprisonment for abducting and gangraping a girl here. Fast Track Court Judge Manoj Kumar also imposed a fine of Rs 40,000 on the convict Hitesh and Ankur after holding them guilty. According to government lawyer Naresh Sharma, the 14-year-old girl was gangraped when she […]

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Four sentenced to life term for murder

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A local court of Jaunpur (UP) here today sentenced four persons to life imprisonment in the murder of a block pramukh in 2000. Kailash Singh, block pramukh, was called over by the convicts to work out a dispute relating to drain on November 23, 2000 and he was murdered while he was returning alongwith his […]

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HC upholds life sentence of 4 for murdering couple

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Twenty-two years after the death by stabbing of a Chembur couple in the 1993 riots that followed the Babri Masjid demolition, the Bombay high court upheld the life sentence given to four people for the crime. A division bench of Justice Vijaya Kapse-Tahilramani and Justice Ajay Gadkari dismissed the appeal filed by Chembur residents Suhas […]

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“Eve-teasing, stalking violate woman’s right to life”

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Eve-teasing and stalking violate women’s right to life and liberty and are a menace which makes them feel unsafe, a Delhi court has observed. The court also observed that eve-teasing and stalking are a “ridiculous form of enjoyment for men but physical and mental torture for women”. It said a large percentage of Indian women […]

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Sheena case: Judicial custody of Indrani, 2 other accused extended

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A metropolitan magistrate court here extended the judicial custody of Indrani Mukerjea–prime accused in Sheena Bora murder case–and two others till November 7 after their 12-day remand ended today. This was the first time when all the three accused –Indrani Mukerjea, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and driver Shyamvar Rai–were produced before the court after […]

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2 ex-bankers convicted in 1992 stock mkt scam

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A special court has convicted two former bank officials for cheating, criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of public funds in the 1992 Harshad Mehta stock marketscam after observing that the accused persons’ acts can be termed as ‘anti-national’. Justice Roshan Dalvi, presiding over a special court set up to conduct trial of offences relating […]

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Driver Sanap gets death

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A special court here today awarded death sentence to driver Chandrabhan Sanap for raping and murdering a 23-year-old software engineer from Andhra Pradesh in the city last year, saying the crime evoked the same reaction as the 2012 Delhi gangrape case case and damaged Mumbai’s image as a safe city for women. “The case falls […]

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Victim died after car fell on him : Salman’s lawyer

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In an interesting twist to arguments in the 2002 hit-and-run case involving Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, his lawyer argued in the Bombay High Court today that the victim died not because of the actor’s car running over him, but as the vehicle came crashing down on him when it was being lifted by a crane. […]

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