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Nitish Katara murder case: SC to hear Vikas Yadav's plea for reducing
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 22 (ANI): The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear the plea of Vikas Yadav, who is serving a 25-year jail term without any remission for brutally murdering Nitish Katara in 2002. Yadav has appealed for his prison term to be reduced.
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Nitish Katara murder: Vikas Yadav pleads to SC for 'leniency', s
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 21 (ANI): Vikas Yadav, who is serving a 25-year jail term without any remission in the brutal murder of Nitish Katara in 2002, on Wednesday pleaded to the Supreme Court for leniency in the case and sought that his prison term should be reduced.
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Swathi murder accused Ramkumar commits suicide in Chennai prison
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Chennai [India], Sept. 18 (ANI): Ram Kumar, the main accused in the software engineer Swathi murder case, on Sunday allegedly committed suicide in ChennaiÆs Puzhal jail.
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'Bihar scribe murder' wanted sharpshooter 'Bunty' spot
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Bhagalpur [India], Sept. 13 (ANI): In a major development signalling trouble for former RJD parliamentarian Shahabuddin who is out on release, a video has gone viral in which wanted sharpshooter Mohammad Kaif can be seen standing with the leader after his release from prison.
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Telangana jails turning into education hubs for inmates
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad [India], Sept. 10 (ANI): In India, jails are normally used to punish criminals for the crimes that they have committed, but in Telangana, prisoners are being provided with an opportunity to reform themselves through various schemes, one of which is the "Vidyadanam Scheme"
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Taste 'prison experience' for Rs. 500 in Telangana
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Medak (Telangana) [India], Sept. 8 (ANI): The Telangana government has launched a new offer called 'Feel the Jail' giving tourists in the locale a chance to visit the colonial-era jail that was built in the year 1796 under the Nizam rule in Hyderabad.
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SC to hear matter of improving current state of prisons, inmates today
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear the matter related to improve the living conditions of inmates in jails across the country, which include overcrowding, delay in trial, custodial deaths, inadequacy of staff, insubstantial food and inadequate clothing a
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SC rejects plea of Kashmir Valley's longest serving prisoner
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug. 30 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea of Kashmir's longest serving prisoner, Ashiq Hussain Faktoo, to reconsider his conviction and life term.
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New ISIS video shows children, including Briton, killing captives
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], Aug. 27 (ANI): A new video released by the Islamic State shows five children, one of whom it identifies as British, murdering Kurdish prisoners.
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Jigisha murder: Degree of brutality, mindset of accused makes it rarest of
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 22 (ANI): A Delhi court on Monday awarded the death sentence to Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla for kidnapping and killing IT professional Jigisha Ghosh in New Delhi in 2009 and the third convict Baljeet Malik was sentenced to life in prison.
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Kirk calls Obama a 'drug dealer'
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington, Aug. 22 (ANI): Criticizing U.S. President Barack Obama over reports suggesting that the government paid USD 400 million to Iran in January for the release of Americans held as prisoners there, Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk said he is "acting like the drug dealer in chief."
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U.S. prisons increase, even after crimes decline: Study
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C., Aug. 22 (ANI): A new study suggests that the U.S. prison population continued to rise even after the crime rate began declining in the mid-1990s because judges were faced with more repeat offenders.
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