The Assam government on Monday said that 494 persons out of 8,773 who were charge-sheeted for child marriage and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) cases in the state, have been convicted since 2017.
Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan, and Tsui Hon-kwong were convicted of failing to comply with a notice from national security police demanding information. They were leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China and were found guilty last week.
A bench of justices BR Gavai, Vikram Nath and Sanjay Karol set aside the death sentence of the accused, convicted in a December 2017 rape and murder case in Madhya Pradesh.
The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice on the plea of Delhi police seeking to place on record the fact of the death of Shahzad Ahmed. He was convicted in the Batla House encounter case and his appeal was pending before the court.
Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to an additional 16 years in prison on Thursday, but his lawyers will continue to fight for him to have a life outside of jail, pledging to appeal his Los Angeles conviction.
A Fast Track Special Court in Raipur on Tuesday convicted a youth for abducting and raping a minor girl and sentenced him to 20 years of Rigorous Imprisonment.
The Knesset approved a law to strip convicted terrorists with Israeli nationality of their citizenship -- provided they receive funding from the Palestinian Authority or an associated organization.
Special Judge Sanjay Khanagwal of Patiala House Court on Tuesday passed the sentencing order and punished all four convicts with seven years and five months in imprisonment. The names of the four convicted operatives are Mohd Asif, Mohd Abdul Rehman, Zafar Masood and Abdul Sami.
Kerala High Court on Monday dismissed the petitions seeking suspension of the sentence of three persons who were convicted for attempting to travel to Syria for joining the Islamic State (ISIS).
On 8th February, protesters belonging to the Quami Insaaf Morcha clashed with Chandigarh Police after the police stopped them from entering the city. The Morcha is demanding the release of Sikh prisoners who were convicted of various crimes during the period of militancy in Punjab.
A Delhi court on Friday convicted four operatives of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) in a conspiracy of terror activities in the country and recruitment for the AQIS.