The special (POCSO) court of judge Shailja Gupta found the accused Hanumat Jatav guilty under sections 376AB, 376 (2) of the IPC section 5, 6 of the POCSO Act whereas accused Urmila Sahu found guilty under Section 109 of the IPC and sections 16, 17 of the POCSO act.
Supreme Court will hear a plea of Bilkis Bano challenging the pre-mature release of 11 convicts on coming Tuesday. Bano was gang-raped and her family members were murdered during the 2002 Godhra riots.
Hitting out at the Central government over Sikhs languishing in jails across the country, Shiromani Akali Dal (Delhi) president Paramjit Singh Sarna on Friday questioned why Sikh prisoners cannot be released while the convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination were rel
Jackson Dadel, a resident of Bhatlem was among the two convicts held for the murder of one, Godwin DSliva, a resident of Altinho at Caranzalem on April 23, 2005.
Bilkis Bano on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court challenging the pew-mature release of 11 convicts, who had gang-raped her and murdered her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots.
The terrorists convicted under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Explosives Substances Act were Sajad Ahmad Khan, Tanveer Ahmed Ganie, Bilal Ahmad Mir, Muzaffar Ahmad Bhat, Ishfaq Ahmad Bhat and Mehraj-Ud-din Chopan -- all residents of Jammu
Vijayvargiya further said that similarly, parents of the murder convicts would also be punished with imprisonment. "Because as there is a contribution of parents in making of good children, similarly, if they did not pay attention then only children do such misdeeds," he added.
Congress MP K C Venugopal on Thursday termed the Central government's decision to file a review petition in the Supreme Court against the November 11 order allowing the release of six convicts in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case as "belated wisdom dawning".
On November 11, the Supreme Court ordered the release of six convicts including Nalini Sriharan and RP Ravichandran, who were serving life imprisonment in connection with the assassination in the case.
The trial court had awarded Ariz Khan a death sentence in the matter. Another convict Shahzad was awarded a life sentence. They had challenged their conviction. On the other hand, the Prosecution had moved a death reference of Ariz Khan and appealed for enhancement of the sentence awarded to