The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition by two convicts in the Bilkis Bano case for interim bail till a fresh decision is taken on their pleas challenging the apex court's January 8 verdict, which led to the cancellation of their remission (early release from prison) and
A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma tagged the pleas of Delhi Police with the pending petition filed by Soumya Vishwanathan's mother against bail granted to four convicts.
After the LDF government's decision to grant special remission to the convicts in the TP Chandrasekharan murder case, Congress MP Shafi Parambil hit out at CPI(M) and said that despite court's order remission had been provided to criminals who were charged with the murder of late CPI (M) lea
In the meeting, SRB has considered a total of 92 cases and 14 cases have been recommended for premature release of convicts from prison. The proposal has been submitted to the Lieutenant Governor for approval.
The convicts have been identified as Hritik (22) and Vikrant (24). They abducted the minor son of the Congress leader, a resident of Pigdambar village, Indore district and demanded a ransom of Rs 4 crore. Later, they killed him out of fear of getting caught.
In a significant verdict in what is said to be the city's largest national security case, the Hong Kong Court has convicted over a dozen pro-democracy activists of subversion charges on Thursday, reported CNN.
The Saket District Court of Delhi on Friday convicted Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar in a 2001 defamation case filed by VK Saxena, who is now Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG).
The Rouse Avenue court on Saturday directed Delhi State Legal Services Authority to file a victim impact assessment report in Doctor Rajender Singh's suicide case. Based on this report and affidavits of convicts, the court will decide the amount of compensation to the victims.
A Delhi Court has convicted a person for double murder with the motive of robbery and said it is held that the prosecution has been able to complete the chain of circumstances and has proved beyond the shadow of all reasonable doubts that accused has committed the crime charged with.
Additional Sessions Judge Babita Puniya convicted the man after analysing the evidence which established that accused raped his stepdaughter repeatedly.