A local court in Chhattisgarh's Janjgir-Champa district has sentenced 25 persons, including three women, to life imprisonment in connection with the murder of a man.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal by an accused against the conviction and life sentence for kidnapping and murdering a two-year-old girl in the Ranhola area in October 2016.
During the hearing on Monday, additional session judge Dharmendra Tada found the convict guilty under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 302, 201, 489A, 489B, 489C and 489D. Judge Tada awarded death penalty to the convict in IPC Section 302, life imprisonment separately in Sections 489A, 489B
The Supreme Court on Monday set aside the Rajasthan High Court's order, summoning IPS officer Ajay Pal Lamba for recording his evidence as a court witness in a case related to self-styled godman Asaram Bapu's appeal against his conviction in a minor's rape case.
Gujarat government on Monday opposed the bail pleas of some convicts, who are sentenced to life imprisonment, and reiterated that the 2002 Godhra train coach-burning case was involved in serious offences as the convicts pelted stones and bolted the door of the train leading to the death of a
Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Umesh Pal kidnapping case, is being taken back to Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
Atiq Ahmed, who was never punished in any case in the last 43 years, despite a hundred cases being registered against him, was finally given life imprisonment on Tuesday, in what could serve as an example for the whole country.
The Court pronounced life sentences to Atiq Ahmed, Dinesh Pasi and Khan Saulat Hanif in the case and has also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on each of the three. All the other seven accused in the case, including Ashraf, the brother of Atiq Ahmed have been acquitted.
The National Investigation Agency Special Court in Guwahati has sentenced a Bodo militant Rabi Basumatary to life imprisonment in a 2014 case of indiscriminate firing on villagers in Assam, the agency said on Wednesday.
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court upheld the life sentence of four men pronounced by a trial court, for raping a 23-year-old woman from Delhi in 2018.