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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stepped in to stay the Delhi high court order that suspended the former BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s life sentence in the 2017 Unnao rape case. On the Central Investigation Bureau’s plea challenging the HC order, Supreme Court bench flagged serious legal concerns over the interpretation of the…
Panaji: In a first, a Portuguese national convicted in a narcotics case and served 11 years of his 15-year sentence at Colvale central jail, has been transferred to Portugal to complete the remainder of his term.Ivan Miguel Falcao Patricio was transferred to Portugal under the Council of Europe’s convention on transfer of sentenced persons. The…
NEW DELHI: Taking a liberal approach in granting relief to convicts, Supreme Court has held that even a life convict can be released on bail during pendency of his appeal if he has a fair chance of getting acquitted in a higher court.Applying this principle, a bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K V…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, using special powers under Article 142 to achieve complete justice beyond letter of law, has again come to the rescue of a young couple who were in a romantic relationship, but which resulted in commission of an offence because the girl was a minor. It acquitted the accused who had…
Sukhdev Yadav, convicted in the 2002 Nitish Katara honour killing, died in a road accident in Kushinagar just four months after his 20-year prison sentence ended LUCKNOW: Sukhdev Yadav, one of three men convicted in the 2002 Nitish Katara honour killing case that sparked national outrage, died Tuesday night in a road accident in UP’s…
