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Mumbai, April 10 Two accused in the 2011 Mumbai triple bomb blasts case, who have been in jail for nearly 15 years, were granted bail by a special court on Friday, citing their prolonged incarceration and violation of the right to a speedy trial while granting them relief.The Maharashtra...

Budaun (UP), April 4 A court here on Saturday sentenced a man to life in prison for the murder of his nephew in a seven-year-old case, officials said.Additional District and Sessions Judge (Court Number 1) Rinku Kumari pronounced the verdict, holding the accused, Shahid, guilty of murder...

New Delhi, April 4 A Delhi court has acquitted a man and his parents in a dowry death case, stating that the prosecution failed to prove allegations of cruelty or dowry harassment against them.Additional Sessions Judge Deepak Wason acquitted Kartik Sharma, his father Ravi Dutt Sharma, and his...

New Delhi, April 2 A Delhi court has convicted a man for attempting to murder an acquaintance by slashing his neck with a blade in east Delhi's Mandawali area around four years ago.Additional Sessions Judge Subhash Kumar Mishra was hearing a case against Sachin, alias Golu, who was accused of...

New Delhi, April 2 A court has acquitted nine men in a case related to the 2020 Delhi riots, stating that the testimonies cannot be relied upon as they lacked specificity and were general in nature.Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh was hearing the case against nine individuals – Shah...

New Delhi, March 31 A Delhi court has acquitted two men who were on trial for allegedly attempting to murder their neighbor in the Seelampur area after the victim and the main complainant turned "hostile" and failed to identify the attackers.Principal District and Sessions Judge Sanjay Sharma...

New Delhi, March 30 A Delhi court has acquitted a man charged with sexually harassing and criminally intimidating his neighbor, stating that the complainant's testimony suffered from multiple inconsistencies.In her recent ruling, Judicial Magistrate Anamika also stated that the testimony...

New Delhi, March 29 A court here has acquitted a man accused of attempting to murder a youth during a quarrel in northeast Delhi's Jafrabad area in 2020, saying that the prosecution failed to establish his identity as the assailant beyond a reasonable doubt.Additional Sessions Judge Kumar...

Thane, March 29 A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy at a railway station in Navi Mumbai in 2019.Special judge V A Patravale of the Kalyan court found the accused, Shrinivas Ramanna Reddy...

Berhampur (Odisha), March 26 A POCSO court here on Thursday sentenced a man to death for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in Odisha's Ganjam district five years ago.Describing the crime as falling in the "rarest of rare" category, fast-track court judge Rohit Lal Panda delivered the...

New Delhi, March 26 A Delhi court has convicted two men for attempting to commit culpable homicide, and for criminally intimidating and insulting the modesty of a woman, after it found the testimony of the defense witnesses to be lacking critical details and likely manipulated.Additional...

Mumbai, March 26 A Mumbai court has directed prison authorities to once again transfer former RPF constable Chetan Singh Choudhary, who is accused of killing four people on a train in 2023, to the Thane mental hospital and submit a report on his mental health, with a specific opinion on whether...

New Delhi, March 25 A Delhi Motor Accident Claims Tribunal has dismissed a compensation claim filed by the parents of a 13-year-old boy who died in a road accident in Ghaziabad in 2022, stating that the negligence on the part of the bus driver was not proven.Presiding Officer Vijay Kumar Jha...

Agartala, March 23 Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha informed the Assembly on Monday that the northeastern state has recorded a 3.06 per cent conviction rate under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act over the past three years.Responding to a written question by Congress MLA...

New Delhi, March 19 A Delhi court has acquitted two men accused of possessing heroin, stating that the prosecution failed to prove its case due to a lack of independent witnesses.Special Judge (NDPS) Gajender Singh Nagar was hearing a case against Kaisher and Aakil, who were accused in a case...

New Delhi, March 18 A court here has acquitted two men in a case related to the 2020 Delhi riots, stating that it would be unsafe to rely on the testimonies of the two police witnesses as there is serious doubt about the claim that they were present together at the incident site.Furthermore...

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...

Chennai, March 18 DMK leader and former Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji said he has provided "appropriate answers" to all queries raised by the CBI during an interrogation in the national capital regarding the stampede that occurred in Karur last year.Forty-one people lost their lives and...

New Delhi, March 17 The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a man for killing his wife by setting her on fire in 2000, saying there was no reason to disbelieve the victim's dying declaration.The top court termed the testimony of the couple's eldest daughter, an eyewitness, as...

Gir Somnath, March 16 A special court in Veraval, in Gujarat's Gir Somnath district, on Monday convicted five people and acquitted 35 others in the 2016 Una flogging case, in which four Dalit men were beaten for trying to skin the carcass of a cow, triggering massive protests across the country...