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No furlough to murder convicts sentenced to life without remission: Delhi
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has cleared that the convicts awarded sentence for a particular period or for life with the stipulation that no remission will be granted to him in that period, are not entitled to furlough, while dismissing a plea of serial killer along
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1984 anti-Sikh riots: SC refuses to grant interim bail to convict Mahendra
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to grant interim bail to former MLA Mahendra Singh Yadav, one of the co-convicts in 1984 anti-Sikh riots, on grounds of having tested positive for COVID-19.
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COVID-19: State can decide when convicts released on special parole should
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], June 2 (ANI): The Kerala High Court on Tuesday said that the state government can decide when convicts, released on special parole in view of COVID-19 outbreak, should return to jails and added that the court's interference is not warranted.
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Pak SC rejects Sindh govt's petition against acquittal of convicts in Dani
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 1 (ANI): The Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition by the Sindh government to annul the provincial High Court's verdict in the murder case of Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl.
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UP govt releases 2,257 convicts on parole
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 26 (ANI): The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday released 2,257 convicts, lodged in different jails in Lucknow, on parole for eight weeks.
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Process of granting emergency parole to convicts is underway: Tihar Jail
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 24 (ANI): The process of granting emergency parole to convicts is underway to contain the spread of coronavirus, as per information provided by a Tihar Jail official.
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Delhi HC grants bail to convict in Nido Tania death case
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 20 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted bail to one of the convicts in the 2014 Nido Tania death case.
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Meeting of Sentence Review Board to decongest jails underway: Delhi govt t
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): Delhi government on Monday told Delhi High Court that a meeting of the Sentence Review Board (SRB) was underway today to consider releasing eligible convicts in a bid to decongest jails amid the ongoing coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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SC commutes death penalty of 2 convicts to life imprisonment in minor kidn
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 25 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday commuted the death penalty of two convicts to life imprisonment and said that there shall not be any remission till they complete 25 years of jail sentence in connection with a case of kidnapping and murder of an eight-year-ol
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Abdul Majed, convicted of killing 'Bangabandhu' Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, han
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], April 12 (ANI): Abdul Majed, a sacked Bangladeshi Army officer and one of the convicts in the killing of the country's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was executed on Sunday, according to a prison official.
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Pak authorities issue order to prevent release of Daniel Pearl's killers
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], Mar 03 (ANI): Pakistani authorities on Friday issued an emergency order to prevent the release of four men convicted of murdering US journalist, Daniel Pearl.
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Prosecutors, families of rape victims welcome Nirbhaya convicts' hanging,
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 21 (ANI): The hanging of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case is being lauded and welcomed by prosecutors, families of rape victims and the general public alike.
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