criminal justice system

Thane, February 25 A special POCSO court in Thane has sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in 2021, stating that the crime was "heinous" and deserved no leniency.Although the accused's DNA report did not match the victim's fetus...

New Delhi, February 24 A Delhi court on Tuesday directed the police to provide a copy of the FIR to Uday Bhanu Chib, the president of the Indian Youth Congress, and other accused who were protesting at the AI Impact Summit, rejecting the police's claim that the case was "sensitive".The court...

Dhaka, February 24 An investigation will be conducted into the alleged irregularities in the prosecution process of Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal, which last year sentenced deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death, its new chief prosecutor Amirul Islam said on Tuesday.Amirul...

Kolkata, February 24 The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday suspended the life imprisonment sentence of a man, convicted for the rape of a minor, stating that his appeal, which has been pending since 2019, is yet to be heard, and that prior appeals are also pending.Noting that it is uncertain when...

Jammu, February 23 Police arrested a young man on Monday for allegedly stabbing a woman multiple times with a sharp object, officials here said.According to police, they received information about a woman being stabbed and rushed to the scene.Rafia Bano sustained multiple stab wounds...

Dehradun, February 23 The Uttarakhand High Court on Monday observed that no matter how strong the suspicion, it cannot replace evidence.Justice Ashish Naithani made this observation while hearing an appeal filed against the sessions court verdict in a suicide case that occurred in the Khatima...

Bhubaneswar, February 22 An officer of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) has been booked in Bhubaneswar on allegations of raping a woman, police said on Sunday.The case has been registered under Section 64 of the BNS on the basis of a complaint filed at the Saheednagar police station in the...

Lucknow, February 21 The Allahabad High Court has directed the Superintendent of Police of Bahraich district to explain the "inconsistencies" in a First Information Report (FIR) in a case involving the slaughter of a cow, stating that it is time for courts to intervene and put a check on the...

New Delhi, February 21 – A 35-year-old woman from the Tahirpur area of Delhi died after allegedly being pushed from the first floor of her residence by her husband following an argument, police said on Saturday.According to officials, the woman was brought to Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital on...

Patna, February 21 – A day after meeting Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Rajesh Ranjan, popularly known as Pappu Yadav, the Lok Sabha MP from Purnea, issued a detailed statement describing his ordeal after alleged arrest and sought the Speaker’s intervention.In the statement, Pappu Yadav said that...

New Delhi, February 20 Observing that the Andhra Pradesh Police is in “complete collusion” with those in power, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered that the trial against YSRCP MLC Anantha Satya Udaya Bhaskara Rao in a 2022 murder case should conclude by November 30.Rao, an MLC of the then...

New Delhi, February 19 – The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notices in a plea filed by the Unnao rape survivor seeking to enhance the sentence awarded to expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the custodial death case of her father.A division bench comprising Justices Navin Chawla...

New Delhi, February 19 The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought the response of expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Sengar and others to a plea filed by the Unnao rape survivor seeking to enhance their 10-year prison sentence to the death penalty in the custodial death case of her father.A bench of...

Berhampur (Odisha), February 18 A POCSO court in Berhampur, Odisha, on Wednesday sentenced a 28-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a 13-year-old girl four years ago, a government counsel said.Additional district judge and POCSO special court judge Pranati Pattnaik...

Sri Vijaya Puram, February 18 Three women and a man were arrested in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands for allegedly blackmailing a person by using his partially undressed photos and videos, obtained through trickery, to extort money, police said on Wednesday.The man reportedly met one of the...

Kollam (Kerala), February 18 An accused in a POCSO case escaped from the court premises just minutes before he was sentenced to a cumulative 23 years for abducting a minor girl from Assam and sexually assaulting her, police said on Wednesday.The incident occurred at the Fast Track Special...

Prayagraj (UP), February 17 The Allahabad High Court has acquitted three men, who were convicted for robbery in 1983.The court acquitted them on Monday in a case of robbery that allegedly took place in 1982.Justice Avnish Saxena found inconsistencies in the testimonies of the witnesses and...

Indore, February 17 A facility for video conferencing rooms was inaugurated at Indore Central Jail on Tuesday, which will help the government machinery to produce prisoners in courts for pending cases from the jail itself.After inaugurating the facility, Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla of the...

New Delhi, February 17 The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a November 2025 order granting bail to an accused in a cheating case, stating that the Allahabad High Court should not have blindly applied the principle of parity to him.A bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and K Vinod Chandran...

Mumbai, February 17 Actor Rajpal Yadav was released from Tihar Jail on Tuesday after the Delhi High Court granted him interim bail in the cheque bounce case.Addressing the media after his release, Rajpal said that he has the support of the entire country, from children to the elderly, and that...