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NEW DELHI: One of the prime witnesses in the Sandeshkhali attack case, Bholanath Ghosh, was critically injured on Wednesday after a truck collided with his car in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.Local eyewitnesses claimed that the truck, moving in the opposite direction of the car, rammed into the private vehicle at breakneck speed, crushed…
Satwinder Singh, an Indian-origin Uber driver in New Zealand, has been sentenced to seven years and two months’ jail for a 2023 incident when he switched the GPS of his cab and diverted to a different route while molesting a teenage passenger. The NZ Herald reported that the teenager had booked a short ride from…
Awami Ittehad Party MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid (File photo) SRINAGAR: North Kashmir’s Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid described himself on Wednesaday as an “MP from Tihar jail” while raising in his Parliament speech the issue of poor internet connectivity in border areas of his constituency.His party, the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP), issued a statement here saying…
NEW DELHI: Authorities at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail on Tuesday allowed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s sister, Uzma Khanum, to meet him, breaking weeks of restricted access that had prompted protests by PTI supporters and family members. According to Pakistan news website Dawn, Uzma entered the prison in the afternoon as several PTI workers gathered…
Two separate courts have ordered US immigration authorities to halt the deportation of Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam, a 64-year-old Indian-origin man from Pennsylvania who spent more than four decades in prison for a murder conviction that was later overturned.Vedam, is a legal permanent resident who has lived in the United States since he was nine months…
Recently, more than 50 individuals, most between the ages of 25 and 30, found themselves back in Haryana after being deported from the US while trying to enter through the ‘dunki’ route. One deportee expressed frustration over losing Rs 57 lakh to a deceitful agent, facing intimidation and possible jail sentences as a result. JIND:…
Representative image (AI) An Indian nurse working at Singapore’s Raffles Hospital has been sentenced to one year and two months in jail for molesting a male visitor. The court passed the sentence on Friday.He also received two strokes of the cane, a form of corporal punishment for the same. The 34-year-old nurse, Elipe Siva Nagu,…
DHAKA: Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Wednesday sent 15 serving army officers to jail to face trial on charges of enforced disappearances, murders and custodial tortures during former PM Sheikh Hasina’s tenure. The officers were taken into custody by the army on Oct 11 after a special tribunal ordered their arrest in cases of…
Former NCT member Taeil’s prison sentence of three years and six months has been affirmed by the Seoul High Court, cementing the first-trial verdict for aggravated quasi-rape and keeping all ancillary sanctions intact, with coverage noting the court’s firm stance, as reported by MK Sports. Appeal court’s stance The Seoul High Court’s Criminal Division 11-3…
NEW DELHI: The Congress is learnt to have conveyed to the government that the INDIA bloc will not be a part of the JPC set up to scrutinise the bills on automatic dismissal of jailed chief ministers and ministers, putting to an end questions over the issue.Sources said a senior Congress neta and MP had…
