Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam, former editors in chief of the now-defunct 'Stand News,' were sentenced on Thursday for "conspiracy to publish seditious publications."
The Special Judge of City, Civil & Sessions Court, Mumbai has sentenced two accused to 2-4 years imprisonment with total fine of Rs 2 lakh in a case related to disproportionate assets case.
Delhi's Saket Court on Friday adjourned the hearing on an appeal filed by social activist Medha Patkar after hearing her counsel's part arguements. Patkar has challenged her conviction and sentence in a defamation case filed by the incumbent LG VK Saxena 24 years ago.
In a collective demand, JSFM's central chairman, Suhail Abro, and activists across Sindh called for the arrest of all individuals named in Goro Sindhi's FIR and urged the courts to deliver justice by sentencing the killers to death.
Delhi's Rohini Court has sentenced a Maulvi to 12 years imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 4 year old girl who was his student and was sent to him for learning Urdu language in the madarsa. This incident took place in 2018 in a locality in North West Delhi.
Delhi's Tis Hazari Court has recently granted an imprisonment of 20 years in a case under POCSO for repeatedly raping and impregnating a 14 years old girl after giving her intoxicated drink in 2019.
On September 24, the NIA Court had held the accused guilty. Today the court announced the quantum of the sentences against them under relevant sections of IPC, UA(P) Act, Explosive Substances Act and Railway Act.
Munna Shukla and Mantu Tiwari have been asked to surrender within 15 days to the concerned jail authorities/court to serve the remainder of their respective sentences, while former parliamentarian Surajbhan Singh and six others have been acquitted for lack of evidence.
In a landmark judgment, the court in Yupia convicted three people in a high-profile case concerning the sexual abuse of 21 children from a government residential school in the Shi-Yomi district.
China continues to suppress the people who raise views critical of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In the latest attempt at suppressing freedom of expression, China gave a jail sentence to journalists on sedition charges.