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New Delhi, March 29 Observing that being held in jail without a trial constitutes punishment, the Supreme Court granted bail to a resident of Punjab in an attempt-to-murder case, noting that he had spent two years in jail without the trial even beginning.A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and...

Mumbai, March 27 A court here on Friday acquitted five Haryana police personnel, including a then sub-inspector, and two others who were accused of the alleged fake encounter of gangster Sandeep Gadoli at a hotel in Mumbai in 2016.Additional sessions judge Prashant Kale found the accused not...

Pratapgarh (UP), March 27 A court here has sentenced five people to life imprisonment in connection with the murder of a Dalit man in 2001.Additional District and Sessions Judge (SC/ST Act) Hemant Kumar pronounced the verdict after finding the accused guilty based on the evidence presented...

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...

March 26, Kohima: The court of the Principal District and Sessions Judge, Kohima, has sentenced a 28-year-old woman to seven years of rigorous imprisonment with a fine.The accused, Roshni Banet, was found guilty on the 23rd of this month for an incident that occurred on May 22, 2022, in which...

New Delhi, March 23 A Delhi court has acquitted a man accused in a 2014 kidnapping case after the prosecution failed to establish the charges beyond a reasonable doubt, primarily due to the victim remaining untraceable.Additional Sessions Judge Puneet Pahwa was hearing a case against Sunil...

Faridabad, March 19 A court in this district of Haryana has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his wife, police said on Thursday.Additional Sessions Judge Surendra Kumar has also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on the convict, they added.The convict killed his wife in April 2022 by...

New Delhi, March 18 The Supreme Court has granted an additional nine months to complete the trial in the Sheena Bora murder case, while making it clear that no further extension will be entertained.A bench comprising Justices MM Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh passed the order after receiving a...

Thane, March 18 A court in Thane, Maharashtra, has acquitted two men accused of the murder of a shepherd nearly three years ago, citing a lack of evidence and the failure of a key eyewitness to support the prosecution's case.In his judgment delivered on March 16, Principal District and...

New Delhi, March 17 Emphasizing that if the trial was unlikely to conclude within a reasonable time, continued detention could result in the curtailment of personal liberty, the Supreme Court has granted bail to Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in jail in a terror funding case.A...

Hathras (UP), March 16 The hearing in a defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, related to the 2020 Hathras gangrape, could not be held in an MP-MLA court in this district of Uttar Pradesh on Monday as the judge was on leave, a lawyer said.The hearing in the case has now been...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the accused, Harpal Singh Ahuja, in connection with a 24-year-old case involving bank fraud. The CBI stated that the accused had been moving between Mumbai and Faridabad and was arrested in Mumbai on the 12th of this month. The accused was...

Dubai, March 15 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has ordered the arrest and urgent trial of 10 individuals of various nationalities for publishing video clips on social media platforms containing misleading and fabricated content amid regional tensions due to the war in Iran.In a statement...

Mumbai, March 12 A Mumbai court has refused to grant bail to an accused arrested in the murder case of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, stating that there was sufficient evidence indicating his involvement in the conspiracy as well as facilitating an organized crime syndicate.In an...

New Delhi, March 12 Shortly after the Supreme Court granted bail to Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah on Thursday, his 24-year-old daughter, Sehar Shabir Shah, broke down in tears outside the apex court, describing the moment as the "end of a long wait for justice".Standing alone...

New Delhi, March 12 – The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to two accused – Pawan Kumar Bishnoi and Jagtar Singh – in the 2022 murder case of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta granted relief to the accused while hearing their Special Leave...

Ballia (UP), March 10 A court here has sentenced six individuals to 10 years in prison in a 2014 culpable homicide case, a senior police officer said on Tuesday.The case involves the killing of a man, Jaishankar, in a land dispute at Haldi Paschim village in Ballia district, 12 years ago...

Chandigarh, March 9 The Punjab and Haryana High Court has observed that the prosecution was unable to prove its case against Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the 2002 murder of a journalist, and questioned the CBI investigation.The court on Saturday acquitted Ram Rahim Singh...

New Delhi, March 5 A Delhi court has acquitted four men accused of attempting to murder a contractor and his guards during an alleged robbery attempt near the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in 2023, noting that the prosecution failed to prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt as key witnesses...

New Delhi, February 26 A Delhi court has acquitted three people accused of rioting, arson, and unlawful assembly during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, stating that the prosecution failed to prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh was hearing a case...