After Chennai Mahila court sentenced accused A. Gnanasekaran to life imprisonment for at least 30 years and a fine of Rs 90,000 in the Anna University rape case, his advocate BR Jayaprakash Narayanan on Monday said that they will appeal before an upper court in the coming times.
A Mahila Court here on Monday awarded life sentence for a minimum period of 30 years without remission and a fine of Rs 90,000 to the accused Gnanasekaran, who has been convicted for sexually harassing a student on the Anna University campus in December last year.
A day after a Kotdwar court awarded rigorous life imprisonment to the three men convicted of murdering 19-year-old Ankita Bhandari, Uttarakhand Director General of Police (DGP) Deepam Seth credited the swift police action and thorough investigation for the outcome.
"On the appeal of the prosecution, a fine of Rs 4 lakhs was ordered to be paid to the victim's parents as compensation. The full judgment is yet to come... We had presented forty-seven witnesses," Negi, who represented Ankita and was appointed by the government, told ANI.
In a significant verdict, the Additional District Judge (ADJ) court in Kotdwar has sentenced all three accused in the Ankita Bhandari murder case--resort owner and BJP leader Pulkit Arya, Saurabh Bhaskar, and Ankit Gupta--to life imprisonment.
Former Crime Branch IG Arun Bothra on Thursday described the 2018 Patnagarh parcel bomb case as "the most complicated" in his career, as a Balangir court sentenced Punjilal Meher, a college lecturer, to life imprisonment for the deadly blast that killed two and injured one.
The Sessions Judge of Patnagarh court convicted Punjilal Meher on Wednesday, in connection with the parcel bomb explosion that occurred on February 23, 2018, at the residence of Rabindra Kumar Sahoo in Brahmapura, Patnagarh, said the release statement.
Delhi's Tis Hazari Court has recently awarded a life sentence to a man who killed his wife by burning her in 2014. The court stated that the case does not fall under the category of "rarest of rare" cases.
Speaking to ANI, Special Public Prosecutor Dileep Sathyan said, "The accused has been found guilty in all four murders and has been punished with life imprisonment. He is also liable to pay a compensation of Rs 3 lakh for each of the murders. That would be Rs 12 lakh. He has been convicted f
Tamil Nadu Social Welfare and Women's Rights Minister Geetha Jeevan welcomed the Women's Court verdict in Coimbatore in which all nine accused guilty in the Pollachi sexual assault and rape case were awarded life imprisonment.
The Lod Central District Court today imposed an unprecedented sentence of mandatory life imprisonment plus 60 years on the two terrorists who carried out a combined attack in Ra'anana in January 2024, in which the late Edna Bluestein was run over to death at the bus stop and many others were