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10 yrs jail to Trader for supplying adulterated ghee

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Muzaffarnagar: A court in Kairana has sentenced a trader to 10 years in jail for supplying adulterated ghee, officials said today. Additional District and Sessions Judge Rajat Verma sentenced the convict, Jamshed, to 10 years of imprisonment and also slapped a fine of Rs 20,000 on him yesterday, they added. According to government lawyer Javed Choudhary, […]

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Man gets 10 yrs in jail for raping, threatening wife’s sister

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A man has been sentenced to ten years rigorous imprisonment for raping, stalking and threatening his wife’s sister, with a Delhi court observing that the convict did not mend his ways despite four FIRs lodged against him by the woman. “A girl who is continuously facing molestation at the hands of her (brother-in-law) who had […]

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Bombay HC tells Maha to set up new jail to solve overcrowding problem

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Expressing concern over overcrowding in jails, the Bombay High Court has asked the Maharashtra Government to establish a new prison with kitchen and other facilities which would solve the problem of space constraint. A bench of justices Abhay Oka and Amjad Sayed, hearing a petition, asked the state government to submit a plan for setting […]

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Gulshan Kumar murder case convict sent to jail

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A sessions court today sent Abdul Rauf Merchant, a convict in the music baron Gulshan Kumar murder case who absconded after jumping parole in 2009, to Arthur Road jail here following his re-arrest from Indo-Bangladesh border. Merchant, an aide of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, was released from a prison in Bangladesh on Monday. Border Security […]

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MLC’s son in road rage:SC stays bail, youth to go back to jail

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Rakesh Ranjan alias Rocky Yadav, who allegedly shot dead a Class XII student for overtaking his SUV in Bihar, will have to go back to jail with the Supreme Court today staying a Patna High Court order granting him bail. A bench headed by Justice S A Bobde sought response from Rocky, son of a […]

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NDMC official gets 3 yrs in jail for taking Rs 10k bribe

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Corruption is pervasive and has “engrossed” most of the government departments, a Delhi court has observed while sentencing an NDMC official to three years in jail for accepting Rs 10,000 bribe from a shop owner here. The court, while sentencing Arjun Singh, the then senior assistant at NDMC’s Estate Department, also said that a clear […]

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Smuggler sentenced to 10 years in jail

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A drug smuggler has been sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment by a court in Bahraich UP. Additional District Judge, Suresh Chandra Bharti yesterday awarded 10 years rigorous imprisonment to Imtiyaz Ali for narcotics smuggling. Ali was arrested on Dec 21, 2009 from Nepalganj road in Rupaideeha area with one kg charas. The court also […]

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Moga case: Prosecution asked to record evidence of witness

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A local court of Moga has directed the prosecution to record the evidence of witnesses in the death case of 13-year-old girl who was allegedly molested and thrown off a moving bus in Moga, on December 11. Additional Sessions Judge Gurjant Singh on Saturday gave the direction on Saturday after no one turned up on […]

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Two-day police custody for ultra-Left singer

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A Chennai court today allowed an ultra- Left propagandist singer, who was arrested for alleged sedition, to be sent to police custody for two days. The court granted the police custody of 54-year-old Kovan, propagandist singer of ultra Left arts and literary outfit ‘Makkal Kalai Ilakkiya Kazhagam’. He was arrested at Tiruchirapalli on October 30 […]

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65-yr-old gets 7 yrs jail for trying to rape minor

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A 65-year-old man was sentenced to seven years in jail for trying to rape a minor girl by a Delhi court, which observed that the crime has affected the mind and soul of the victim for which no amount of compensation was sufficient. “The crime of the convict has gone deep into the mind and […]

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Court upholds jail term of man

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A Delhi court has refused to set aside the jail term awarded to a convict for molesting a seven -year-old girl, saying the fact that she gave her statement in writing as it “made her fearful” about testifying “negates the grant of any leniency” to him. District and Sessions Judge Anu Malhotra dismissed the plea […]

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Court: life term to man for killing brother-in-law

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A Delhi court has awarded life term to a man for killing his brother-in-law over suspicion of his illicit relations with his wife, observing that “Justice demands court should impose punishment befitting the crime so that it reflects public abhorrence of the offence.” District Judge Talwant, Singh while awarding life term to Delhi resident Bharat, […]

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