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When Karan Singh (Appellant) found himself standing alone, convicted of dowry death and cruelty under Section 304-B (Dowry Death) and Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, his legal options narrowed significantly. Though tried alongside his parents, who were acquitted, the Sessions Court convicted Karan Singh, sentencing him to seven years rigorous imprisonment for…
JAIPUR: In a rare union forged by courtship in custody, two convicts serving life sentences in separate, high-profile murder cases are set to marry Friday after striking up a relationship inside city’s open-air prison.Priya Seth (34), was convicted for the 2018 Jaipur murder of a man she met on a dating app. Hanuman Prasad (29),…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday said that Venezuela’s Maduro is in jail while his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is free.While speaking at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Trump said that the man who started the war is not just free but is also fighting for his frozen money in Europe.“Lets look at the…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Wednesday said it would pass an order to expedite proceedings against lawyer-activist Surendra Gadling in the 2016 Surajgarh arson case after he pressed for bail on the ground that he has been in jail for seven years without trial and there is also no judge in the special court to hear…
NEW DELHI: Less than a month after his release was stayed by Supreme Court in the main rape case, Delhi high court on Monday refused to suspend a 10-year jail term handed to expelled BJP functionary Kuldeep Singh Sengar for the custodial death of the Unnao rape survivor’s father.“The offence committed is of grave magnitude…
Sonam Wangchuk and his wife Gitanjali Angmo (File photo) NEW DELHI: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk’s wife, Gitanjali Angmo said that he remains optimistic despite spending more than three months in solitary confinement at a Jodhpur jail. She added that Wangchuk is using his time in custody to write a book based on his prison experience.In…
Amid the ongoing fight for Mumbai’s mayor post, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut said that even corporators from Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena “do not want a BJP mayor in Mumbai.” MUMBAI: Amid the ongoing battle for Mumbai’s mayor post, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut said that even corporators from Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena…
WASHINGTON: Aldrich Ames, the most murderous turncoat in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), whose betrayal in working for the Soviet Union went undetected for almost a decade, died Monday. He was 84 and had been a federal prisoner, serving life without parole, since 1994.The death was recorded in the federal bureau of…
NEW DELHI: In a poignant reflection of women’s status in many marriages and the fear of ignominy and destitution that a divorce evokes, a wife, despite having been stabbed in the neck and having her child flung from the first floor by the husband, agreed to patch up with her spouse to save him from…
Umar Khalid returned to Delhi’s Tihar Jail on 29 December. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday pronounced its verdict on Sharjeel Imam, Umar Khalid and several others, rejecting their bail plea in the Delhi 2020 riots case.A bench comprising Justices Aravind Kumar and N.V. Anjaria rejected the bail pleas of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel…
