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Pratapgarh (UP), April 10 An undertrial prisoner, who was being held in the district jail here in connection with a rape case, is alleged to have died by suicide on Friday, police said."Prima facie, the incident appears to be a case of suicide. The inmate suffered severe burn injuries within...

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...

Ballia (UP), April 6 A local court on Monday sentenced a man to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment in connection with a six-month-old case of kidnapping and rape of a 16-year-old girl.The court of Additional District Judge (POCSO) Pratham Kant also imposed a fine of Rs 35,000 on the accused...

Madurai, April 6 – In a landmark judgment that has reignited national debate on custodial violence, the First Additional District and Sessions Court in Madurai on Monday awarded the death penalty to nine police personnel convicted in the 2020 Sattankulam custodial deaths case.The case pertains...

Muzaffarnagar (UP), April 6 A fast-track court in Muzaffarnagar on Monday awarded the death sentence to three individuals and seven years of imprisonment to another in connection with the abduction and murder of a lawyer in 2019, officials said.Additional District and Sessions Judge (Fast...

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...

JAMMU, APRIL 05: The J&K Traffic Police have launched a strict enforcement drive against the illegal use of pressure horns across the Union Territory, at the direction of the Inspector General of Traffic Police.In a statement, the department reiterated that the Supreme Court of India, in its...

Jaipur, April 4 – A road accident in Jodhpur's Keru area on Saturday claimed the life of a 35-year-old motorcyclist, triggering unrest as an angry mob set the bus involved in the collision on fire. Police later brought the situation under control after deploying additional forces.The incident...

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...

Lahore, April 4 Pakistan batsman Fakhar Zaman was already under the close scrutiny of the umpires even before they changed the ball and awarded five runs penalty against Lahore Qalandars in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), a source revealed.Zaman was handed a two-match ban after being found...

Palnadu (Andhra Pradesh), April 4 A 32-year-old woman working as outsourced staff in a government department was allegedly raped and assaulted by an unidentified person in Macherla, a police official said on Saturday.Palnadu district Superintendent of Police (SP) B Krishna Rao said the woman...

Madurai (Tamil Nadu), April 2 A district court on Thursday deferred the announcement of the sentence for nine police personnel convicted in the sensational 2020 Sathankulam custodial death case, in which a father and son died while in police custody, to April 6.Madurai First Additional...

Lucknow, April 1 – A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Lucknow has sentenced five accused, including a senior bank official, to three years in prison along with a total fine of Rs 3.4 lakh in a bank fraud case linked to Kanpur, officials said on Wednesday.The...

New Delhi, April 1 The Supreme Court on Monday imposed a fine of ₹25,000 on the Centre for pursuing unnecessary litigation, after the Centre challenged a Punjab and Haryana High Court order that overturned the dismissal of a CISF official.Upholding the high court ruling, a bench of Justices B...

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...

New Delhi, April 1 An amendment bill that provides graded punishment for causing bodily harm to transgender persons has received the assent of President Draupadi Murmu.Opposition MPs had criticized the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, for excluding gay and...

March 31, Kohima: The Principal District & Sessions Court in Kohima on Monday sentenced a 44-year-old man to six months of rigorous imprisonment after finding him guilty of sexual harassment under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.The court also imposed a fine of 10,000 rupees, with...

Kota (Rajasthan), March 31 A 44-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court for killing his 38-year-old wife with an axe at their home while she was asleep, Public Prosecutor Rajendra Singh Solanki said on Tuesday.In an order on Monday, the upper district and sessions...

New Delhi, March 31 A court here has convicted two men for attempting to rob an Amazon delivery agent at gunpoint in northeast Delhi's Bhajanpura area in 2018.Additional Sessions Judge Balwinder Singh was hearing a case against Mohammad Arif alias Shanu and Sameer Khan, who were accused of...

New Delhi, March 31 The Delhi High Court has awarded a 10-year prison sentence to a woman for aiding her minor brother in committing the crime of rape in 2013.Justice Chandrasekharan Sudha said that the convict played an "active and deliberate" role in luring the victim and was not only...