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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…
Dibrugarh: Ten people of Bangladeshi origin were arrested Monday for attacking police and freeing a man accused of posting pro-terrorist content online, after a planned mob assault in a village in Assam’s Lakhimpur.The assault triggered outrage as it involved “Miya” people – referred to Bengali-speaking immigrant Muslims of Bangladeshi origin in Assam, a population estimated…
JAMMU: A TADA court in Jammu released Tuesday Shafat Ahmed Shangloo, the alleged Yasin Malik accomplice whose arrest CBI announced the previous day as the missing piece in its 35-year investigation into the 1989 abduction of home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s daughter Dr Rubaiya Sayeed.The court of 3rd additional district and sessions judge Madan Lal…
DEHRADUN: Supreme Court has acquitted three minors – who are now adults – sentenced to life for the 2007 strangulation murder of a 10-year-old, holding that the prosecution failed to prove their guilt beyond doubt and relied solely on circumstantial evidence and speculative claims. A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma…
Microsoft is reorganizing its top leadership team, appointing longtime sales chief Judson Althoff to oversee marketing and operations in a move designed to allow CEO Satya Nadella and his engineering leaders to concentrate on technical innovation, particularly in artificial intelligence.In an email to employees on Wednesday, October 1, Nadella announced that Althoff will take on…
