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Thane, March 4 The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal in Thane, Maharashtra, has awarded a compensation of Rs 24.49 lakh to the family of a businessman who died in a road accident in 2015.Tribunal member R V Mohite passed the order granting compensation on February 25. A copy of the order was made...

March 3, Kohima: A special court under the POCSO Act in Dimapur has sentenced Yilobemo Mozhui to life imprisonment for the 2020 murder of a 17-year-old girl.The verdict was announced yesterday.According to a press note from the Dimapur Police, the victim's body was found on October 22, 2020...

New Delhi, March 3 A court here has acquitted a man accused of raping a woman under the pretext of marriage, citing insufficient evidence to frame charges under the alleged offenses.Additional Sessions Judge Harjeet Singh Jaspal was hearing a case registered in 2017 under sections 376 (rape)...

Mangaluru, March 3 – The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has filed a chargesheet before the Special Court for PMLA cases in Mangaluru against the accused, Bhimashankar Bilgundi and Mallanna S. Maddarki, in connection with an alleged scholarship scam at Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College (MRMC)...

New Delhi, March 2 A Delhi court has acquitted three men accused of killing a man under the Janakpuri District Centre flyover in 2015, giving them the benefit of the doubt after finding material inconsistencies in the prosecution's case.Additional Sessions Judge Pooja Talwar was hearing a case...

Mumbai, March 2 Former RPF constable Chetansinh Chaudhary, accused of killing his senior and three passengers on a moving train in 2023, sought bail from a local court on Monday, citing "borderline insanity".Through his lawyer, Chaudhary blamed railway authorities for failing to conduct a...

Aizawl, March 2 The Mizoram government will intensify its efforts to combat the smuggling of betel nuts from Myanmar, Home Minister K Sapdanga informed the Assembly on Monday.The home minister noted that the illegal influx of the commodity from the neighboring country over the past few years...

Thane, March 2 A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has sentenced a 32-year-old woman and her accomplice to life imprisonment for brutally murdering her live-in partner and dumping his body in a creek.Additional sessions judge G G Bhansali found the accused, Vijay Pisu Bhalare (30) and...

New Delhi, March 1 – In a major breakthrough, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a Nepali citizen, who had been on the run since 2014, in a case involving fake Indian currency and a Pakistani national based in Dubai, an official said."The accused, Noor Mohammed, from the Bara...

New Delhi, March 1 The Delhi Police has arrested a proclaimed offender who is alleged to be involved in a multi-state job scam, cheating several aspirants of crores of rupees by promising government jobs in the Ministry of Home Affairs, officials said on Sunday.The accused, identified as...

Kollam (Kerala), March 1 A court here has sentenced a man to imprisonment until death for torturing and sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl.Special Judge Aravind B Edayodi of the Punalur Fast Track Court (POCSO Act Cases) awarded the sentence and a fine of Rs 5 lakh to Kalaivanan Kamaraj...

Alappuzha (Kerala), February 28 A court on Saturday sentenced two CPI(M) activists to five years of rigorous imprisonment for attempting to murder a BJP worker in Thaneermukkom here in 2018.Alappuzha Additional District and Sessions Judge Suhaib M sentenced Akhil (32) and Vishnu (30), both...

Kozhikode (Kerala), February 27 A Kerala court on Friday sentenced a 41-year-old man to a cumulative 53 years in prison for the aggravated sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl at her residence near Perambra here in 2023.Judge Devan K Menon of the Nadapuram Fast Track Special Court sentenced...

Mumbai, February 27 A woman traveler from a foreign country shared a disturbing experience on social media, posting a video of two men constantly following her on a street in Mumbai and asking for photos with her despite her persistent refusal, prompting the police to file a stalking case...

Kochi, February 27 – The Kerala government moved the Kerala High Court on Friday, challenging the recent verdict of the Ernakulam Principal District and Sessions Court, which acquitted Malayalam actor Dileep in the 2017 actress abduction and sexual assault case, while convicting six other...

New Delhi, February 27 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached properties worth ₹90.04 crore in Gurugram linked to fugitive Inderjeet Singh Yadav, who is based in the UAE, and is allegedly involved in coercive settlements of loans given by private lenders, as well as other crimes...

New Delhi, February 27 The Supreme Court on Friday said that Parliament has the "absolute right" to enact a law, and it is not bound by any undertaking that may have been given by the Centre to the court.These observations came from a bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice...

Thiruvananthapuram, February 27 A court here on Friday sentenced a man to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹50,000 for murdering his father in Nedumangad in July 2022.Thiruvananthapuram Additional Sessions Court Judge K P Anil Kumar found Vinod guilty of killing his father, Antony...

Idukki (Kerala), February 27 A 25-year-old man has been sentenced by a Kerala court to a cumulative 30 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl at a theatre in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, in 2022, after luring her there with the promise of a job.Idukki Painav Fast Track Court Judge...

Indore, February 26 The Madhya Pradesh High Court has refused to order the release of a Bangladeshi woman held in a detention center in Indore, citing her safety in light of the current international situation.Justices Vijay Kumar Shukla and Alok Awasthi of the Indore bench of the high court...