Just a few hours after being sworn in as the 47th President of the US, Donald Trump on Monday (local time) granted pardons and commutations to the convicts charged in relation to the events that occurred at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to a statement from the White House.
Igor Sergunin, Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev were tried behind closed doors in Petushki and sentenced to three-and-a-half, five and five-and-a-half years respectively.
The Supreme Court on Thursday posted for final hearing on February 13 appeals filed by the Gujarat government and several other convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case.
Special Judge Vishal Gogne convicted the two accused out of six accused persons for the offences of rioting, unlawful assembly and assaulting public servants.
Military courts have granted pardon to 19 convicts involved in the May 9, 2023 riots, which erupted following the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, ARY News reported quoting the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan has called for the formation of a judicial commission to investigate the events related to the May 9 riots and the crackdown on PTI protesters on November 26.
A Delhi Court has recently convicted gangster Salman Tyagi and his four men in a 12-year-old case of rioting and attempting to murder. One of the accused has been acquitted.
The convicted individuals include Manoj Kumar Jayaswal, Managing Director (MD) of M/s Abhijeet Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. (now M/s Abhijeet Infrastructure Ltd.), Ramesh Kumar Jayaswal, former Director of the company, and the company itself.
The Special ACJM (Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate) court for CBI cases, Ahmedabad (Rural), on Friday sentenced two accused to 3 years of imprisonment in the case of obtaining TDS refunds based on alleged forged certificates, the agency said in a release.
Delhi's Tis Hazari Court recently convicted a man for throwing acid on a man and his two daughters in 2017. It was alleged that the convict threw acid on victims in west Delhi's Khyala after being scolded by the father for loitering around his house.