All ten convicts in the 2019 Tabrez Ansari lynching case have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by Jharkhand's Seraikela court under section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of Indian Penal Code (IPC).
A demolition drive was purportedly carried out at the residence of a man in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a 19-year-old girl in the Fatehpur district, the officials said on Wednesday.
The plea of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman will be taken up by a two-judge SC bench comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan and Justice Ayesha A Malik, after the former prime minister's one-page application seeking early fixing of the matter.
The three accused--Lovelesh Tiwari, Arun Maurya, and Sunny Singh were produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate Prayagraj pm Monday via video conferencing where their judicial custody was extended.
According to the reports, the accused, Babul Tumung, allegedly raped and killed the minor girl and dumped her body in the Digaru River in the Sonapur area in Kamrup (Metro) district on June 28. Later, police recovered the body from the river.
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday criticised the ongoing violence in Panchayat polls and said that the violence can be described as politics of "murder", "intimidation" and of "muscle flexing".
Supreme Court on Monday said that it will hear on July 5 plea by Siva Shankar Reddy seeking suitable clarification of the top court's earlier order so that he can effectively pursue remedies before the jurisdictional High Court in a matter relating to the YS Vivekananda Reddy murder case.
The Uttar Pradesh government filed a status report in the Supreme Court in connection with Atiq Ahmed's death case and apprised the top court that police reforms and modernisation measures are underway and handcuffing instructions issued to prevent the easy escape of hardened criminals.