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LONDON: An Indian man who lured a woman to a London hotel on the pretence of offering her employment has been found guilty of rape, with police warning he may have been a serial offender.Gurwinder Singh (37), an Indian citizen residing in Northolt, was convicted at Southwark crown court last week of rape, attempted rape,…
A special NIA court in Delhi on Monday transferred the case against Kashmiri separatist Aasiya Andrabi back to the judge who had convicted her on terror charges under UAPA and for IPC offences as well, holding that the “judge who delivered the conviction must also decide the sentencing”.Special Judge Chanderjit Singh was transferred from the…
File photo: Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina (Picture credit: ANI) A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to a total of 10 years in prison in two separate corruption cases linked to alleged irregularities in the allocation of residential plots under the Purbachal New Town government project near Dhaka.According to news…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Saturday refuted the claims made on Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s visit to Israel in 2017 in the newly released documents on late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The ministry, in a statement, dubbed the references as “trashy ruminations of a convicted criminal”, saying that the claims must be…
A federal jury in San Francisco this week convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, 38, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for stealing thousands of pages of confidential information containing Google’s trade secrets related to artificial intelligence technology for the benefit…
Shree Jogdhankar and Jhanvi Kukreja (File Photo) MUMBAI: A sessions court on Saturday convicted and sentenced Shree Jogdhankar to life imprisonment in the 2021 murder case of 19-year-old Jhanvi Kukreja, more than five years after the incident occurred on New Year’s Eve. Co-accused Diya Padalkar was acquitted. Jogdhankar and Padalkar, both in their 20s, had…
SRINAGAR: The J&K high court set aside Wednesday the conviction of an elderly woman in a 1979 murder case from Uri near the LoC in Baramulla district of north Kashmir, citing 46 years of prolonged proceedings and her age-related infirmities.A single-judge bench of Justice Sanjay Parihar ruled that the sentence of Shameema Begam should be…
MUMBAI: In the first conviction for feeding pigeons after the Bombay high court ban this July, a metropolitan magistrate court in Bandra has found a 52-year-old Dadar businessman guilty of feeding pigeons in a public place, holding that the act posed a risk to public health and violated government orders.Additional chief judicial magistrate V U…
Newly released documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein have put a spotlight on previously unseen photos of the late convicted sex offender with a host of high-profile figures, including legendary popstar Michael Jackson, musician Mick Jagger, and former US President Bill Clinton. The images were made public by the US Justice Department on Friday as part…
Two men convicted in the 2017 Kerala actress assault case have challenged their convictions in the High Court, seeking bail and a stay on their sentences. They claim a lack of evidence and procedural flaws in the trial. The court has acknowledged issues and will reopen the case after vacation, delaying the official appeal hearing….
