The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea of self-proclaimed godman Asaram, who is currently serving a life sentence in a rape case, seeking the suspension of his sentence.
A division bench of Justices Suresh Kumar Kait and Manoj Jain admitted the appeals moved by four convicts Ravi Kapoor, Baljeet Singh Malik, Amit Shukla and Ajay Kumar challenging the order of the trial court. The High Court will hear the appeals in due course.
They alongwith two others were convicted for murder and running a crime syndicate. The court had directed that convicts shall undergo the life sentence consecutively.
The Delhi Police on Tuesday opposed the bail plea of accused Neelam Azad in the Parliament security breach case and said the present accused is involved in the offence, which is punishable up to a life sentence or death penalty.
A US-based human rights organisation recently reported that Dawut, aged 57, had lost her appeal against her initial conviction dating back to December 2018, on charges of "endangering state security."
Following the verdict, the judge ordered the burial of the burnt Quranic pages in the ground once the period for appeal against or revision of the decision had expired, along with the disposal of related pleas.
Yasin Malik, who is serving life sentence in Tihar Jail after being convicted in a terror funding case, was to be presented before the top court for a hearing on a CBI plea against Jammu court order.
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) trial court in Kerala's Ernakulam has pronounced a life sentence for three of the six Popular Front of India (PFI) cadres convicted a day ago in the 2010 case of attempted murder of a professor by chopping off his palm, the agency said on Friday.