The former Indian Naval officers whose conviction has been reduced to jail terms in Qatar can serve their sentence in Indian prison due to an earlier agreement between New Delhi and Doha, senior advocate Adish Aggarwala said on Thursday.
The Qatari Court on Thursday commuted the death penalty sentence of eight ex-Indian naval officers it had arrested last year in the Dahra Global case, the Ministry of External Affairs said in a press statement. The sentence has now been reduced to jail terms.
This comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on the sidelines of the COP28 summit in Dubai and discussed bilateral partnership and the "well-being of the Indian community" living in Qatar.
Former Union Minister Maneka Gandhi urged seven years of jail term for YouTuber and Bigg Boss winner Elvish Yadav who has been accused in providing snake venom at rave parties.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Pulastya Pramachala awarded seven years' imprisonment to convict Imran alias Model and a five-year jail term to convict Imran under section 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
A court in Uttar Pradesh's Raipur on Wednesday convicted Samajwadi Party leader Mohammed Abdullah Azam Khan, his wife Tanzeem Fatima and son Abdullah Azam Khan in a fake birth certificate case.
An Indian Army General Court Marital has recommended a five-year jail term and cashiering from service as punishment to a Major who was found guilty on charges of sexual harassment involving an 11-year-old girl.
Former MLA Kuldeep Singh Senger is also a convict in this case. Their appeals are pending before the Delhi High Court, and they are serving a ten-year jail term.
The Supreme Court on Friday posted the plea of CBI challenging the grant of bail to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, for hearing in October, in the fodder scam case of Jharkhand in which he was sentenced to five years jail term.
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to list the petition filed by CBI challenging the grant of bail to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Yadav in the Doranda Treasury case of Jharkhand in which he was sentenced to five years jail term.
The Supreme Court on Thursday while hearing a plea filed by Bilkis Bano against the release of 11 convicts who had gang-raped her and murdered her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots, queried the Gujarat and Central governments about the selective application of the pre-mature releas
According to City Superintendent of Police (CSP) Mahendra Singh Chouhan, 12 years ago, the accused Verma had raped a minor girl (around four and half years old) in the district following which he was convicted and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. The accused only served seven years of