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Five-day transit remand for Sanjeev Khanna

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A city court today granted a five-day remand to the Mumbai Police for Sanjeev Khanna, an accused in the murder of Sheena Bora and former husband of the prime accused Indrani Mukherjea, after rejecting his bail plea. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Alipore Court, Rajesh Chakraborty accepted the remand prayer of Mumbai Police and directed it to […]

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Law bars prosecution of minor for lodging false case: Court

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A Delhi court has said it cannot prosecute a minor girl for lodging false rape case against her relatives due to a bar in the law for protection of children from sexual offences. The court relied on the statement of the 17-year-old girl that she had made false allegations against the accused and said the […]

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Arrested godman, son to make court appearance through VC

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Allowing a plea of Odisha Police, a court here has ordered the Choudwar jail authorities to make arrangements for video conferencing (VC) to avoid physical production of arrested godman Santosh Roul and his adopted son Satyam in court. Facing problems in production of the father-son duo in the court and apprehending threat to their lives, […]

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Gangrape of minor: Father gets life, youth 12 yrs jail

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A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for gangraping his nine-year-old daughter, by a Delhi court which refused to take a lenient view observing that he gave his daughter such a betrayal of faith of relationship that would really be difficult for her to forget. The court also awarded 12 years rigorous jail term […]

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Bribery case: US firm says it will cooperate with Goa Police

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Goa Police today claimed to have cracked the Louis Berger bribery case and established the money trail as it quizzed former PWD Minister Churchill Alemao whose name has cropped up in the scandal. Crime Branch, probing the case, said they have managed to track the route through which the bribe money was brought to India.

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Four men get 10 years RI for gangraping minor girl

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Four men were sentenced to ten years rigorous imprisonment for gangraping a minor school girl after abducting her, by a court in Lakhnadoun town of this district. According to the prosecution, the four — Kamlesh Nema, Dharmendra Sahu, Ashish Patel and Yeshwant Sahu — all in their 20s, had abducted the girl in a car […]

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Court frees 6 persons, pulls up Rohtak police

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Six members of a family, charged with murder, rioting and trespass, have been acquitted by a Delhi court on the grounds that the investigation by the police in Rohtak was “faulty and highly motivated”. The court said certain glaring facts have emerged in the property dispute, which impelled it to conclude that the investigation was […]

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4 awarded life term in 2 murder cases

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Two persons were sentenced to life imprisonment by acourt here for murdering a taxi driver last year and fleeing with his vehicle. Additional District and Sessions Judge Basrrudin held Naresh and Praveen, both residents of village Kirara here, guilty of the murder of taxi driver Surender of Niyoli Kalan. It slapped a fine of Rs.1 […]

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Three get life imprisonment for killing farmer

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A local court of Chhattarpur(MP) has sentenced three persons to life imprisonment for killing a farmer at a village in the district over six years back. The convicts — Babulal, Veer Singh, and Shivpal — had murdered farmer Narayan Lodhi over a land dispute at the latter’s agricultural field in Chilmanpurwa village of the district on […]

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Man gets jail for threatening to throw acid on student

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A Delhi court has convicted a man for threatening to throw acid on a student and stalking her on her way to college. Metropolitan Magistrate Shivani Chauhan held Syed Arshad Kadri, a native of Uttar Pradesh, guilty of offences under sections 354 (molestation) 341 (wrongful restraint) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC, while relying […]

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Man gets 10yrs jail for rape on pretext of marriage

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A man has been awarded ten years in jail for raping a woman on false promise of marriage by a Delhi court, which refused to take a lenient view saying the crime committed by him was very serious as he has ruined the victim “physically, psychologically and financially.” “Here was an innocent lady who handed […]

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63-yr-old gets 10 yrs in jail for raping minor

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A 63-year-old man was sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years by a local court  of Moga (Pb) for raping a minor. Additional Sessions Judge Gurjant Singh pronounced the verdict yesterday holding Jagan Nath guilty of raping the 13-year-old girl. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Nath. The case was registered on March 21, […]

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