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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...

Hisar (Haryana), April 10 After being granted bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in a 2014 violence case, controversial preacher Rampal walked out of a jail in this district of Haryana after more than 11 years.Rampal's family and lawyers were present at the jail to receive him.Police...

Guwahati, April 10 – In a significant development in the high-profile death case of Assamese singer Zubeen Garg, North East India Festival (NEIF) organizer Shyamkanu Mahanta filed a fresh bail application before a special fast-track court in Guwahati on Friday.The court has scheduled the...

Sultanpur (UP), April 6 A court here on Monday adjourned the hearing in a defamation case against Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, as the complainant's counsel failed to appear.The court fixed April 17 as the next date of hearing.The case was scheduled to be heard in the...

New Delhi, April 2 Delhi may witness another cloud-seeding trial this summer, according to an official familiar with the matter. Two rounds of cloud-seeding trials were conducted in the national capital late last October.The trials came following a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the...

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...

New Delhi, April 1 The Supreme Court on Wednesday requested the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court to take a comprehensive policy decision to ensure a productive timeline for adjudicating sensitive cases, such as those involving racial discrimination against people from the north-east.While...

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...

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 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...