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Chandigarh, April 11 The Punjab Cabinet on Saturday approved stringent amendments to the sacrilege law to make punishments more severe, including life imprisonment.The Cabinet, in a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, cleared the Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar...

Jalna, Apr 11 A court in the Jalna district of Maharashtra has sentenced a man and his brother to life imprisonment for murdering the former's 17-year-old daughter in 2022 over an issue related to her proposed marriage.The girl's prospective in-laws wanted her parents to transfer some land in...

Kannur (Kerala), April 11 A court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering his wife, a police officer, at Karivellur.Thalassery District Sessions Court Judge K T Nisar Ahamed awarded life imprisonment to Rajesh K (43) of Kozhummal for murdering his wife, Divyasree (38) of...

Mainpuri (UP), April 10 A court in the Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh sentenced a man to life imprisonment on Thursday for killing his two daughters, allegedly for stealing a mobile phone, according to the government prosecutor on Friday.According to him, the incident took place on March...

Bhubaneswar, April 8 – The District and Sessions Court in Keonjhar district of Odisha on Wednesday sentenced three individuals to life imprisonment in connection with a murder case that took place in 2022.The convicted individuals – identified as Uttam Kumar Mahakud, Upendra Kumar Behera, and...

Azamgarh (UP), April 7 A court in the Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh has sentenced five members of a family to life imprisonment in a murder case that occurred nearly two years ago.Special Sessions Judge Jainuddin Ansari, after completing the trial in the murder of a man named Pankaj...

New Delhi, April 6 The Supreme Court on Monday deferred to the first week of May the hearing on a petition filed by the CBI challenging the suspension of Kuldeep Singh Sengar's life imprisonment in the 2017 Unnao rape case.A bench comprising Chief Justice Sura Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi...

Raipur, April 6 – The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced Amit Jogi, the son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment for the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi, stating that he was the "mastermind" and "driving force" behind the conspiracy.A division bench of Chief...

Raipur, April 2 The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced Amit Jogi, son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment for the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi.The order, dated April 2, when a division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma...

Gurugram, April 4 A Gurugram court on Saturday sentenced two men to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs 50,000 each in connection with a 2022 murder case, police said.On April 11, 2022, the body of Sunil Kumar, a resident of Dhadhot village in Mahendragarh, was found in a deserted area near...

Bhubaneswar, April 1 A court in the Jharsuguda district of Odisha has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a four-year-old girl in 2025.The additional district judge of Jharsuguda delivered the verdict on Tuesday."Pankaj Podh, the main accused in the case, has been sentenced to...

Latehar (Jharkhand), March 28 A court in Latehar district of Jharkhand sentenced six people to life imprisonment on Saturday for the gang rape of a minor.The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge (Second) cum Special Judge (POCSO), Sanjay Kumar Dubey, sentenced Kariman Ganjhu (38)...

Sambalpur (Odisha), March 27 A court in Odisha sentenced seven individuals to life imprisonment for the murder of a man in the Sambalpur district in 2021, an official said on Friday.District and sessions judge Pragyan Panigrahi delivered the verdict on Thursday after examining 23 witnesses and...

Agartala, March 27 A man was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Tripura for murdering his wife.Additional District and Sessions Judge of West Tripura, P P Paul, convicted Mithu Das and sentenced him to rigorous life imprisonment on Thursday.Mithu, a daily wage laborer, had been...

Berhampur (Odisha), March 26 A POCSO court in Odisha's Ganjam district on Thursday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and murdering his minor sister-in-law three years ago.Additional district judge-cum-judge of the POCSO court, Pranati Pattnaik, pronounced the verdict after...

Thane, March 26 A Thane court has sentenced two men to life imprisonment for the murder of an 84-year-old man and his caretaker here nearly a decade ago.Additional Sessions Judge GG Bhansali, in the order passed on March 20, also ordered rigorous imprisonment of seven years on two counts of...

Kolkata, March 25 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced its third list of 19 candidates for the upcoming two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal next month, with Ratna Debnath, fielded from the Panihati Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district, being the most prominent...

Sonbhadra (UP), March 25 A court here on Wednesday convicted a minor for murdering his stepmother over six years ago and sentenced him to life imprisonment.Government counsel Dinesh Prasad Agrahari said on September 19, 2019, Anirudh Gupta, a resident of Ajnia village, had filed a written...

Srinagar, March 25 PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti called for reviewing the life sentence of separatist Asiya Andrabi and reducing it to the earlier provision of 14 years."This life imprisonment until the person is alive should be abolished throughout the country. It should be 14 years, as it was...

Srinagar, March 25 PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti called for reviewing the life sentence of separatist Asiya Andrabi and reducing it to the earlier provision of 14 years."This life imprisonment until the person is alive should be abolished throughout the country. It should be 14 years, as it was...