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Supreme Court nixes government’s plea for norms to make sentences victim-centric; calls it without merit | India News

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the central government’s plea seeking victim- and society-centric guidelines for award of sentences, particularly death sentences, in place of the present system which is accused-centric and takes into consideration various mitigating factors relating to convicts.The central government also sought a directive for the introduction of a timeframe…

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‘Classic case of blind faith’: HC jails man for killing wife; nixes his 1984 acquittal | India News

Allahabad high court (File photo) PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad high court has convicted an elderly man and an accomplice of strangling his wife to death in 1982 under the pretext of “driving out a ghost”, calling it a shocking case of blind faith used as a cover for murder.After a 43-year-long legal battle, a division bench of…

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SC nixes plea on clubbing of FIRs in different states against those duping investors | India News

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court ruled that FIRs lodged against people for duping investors in different states cannot be clubbed into one FIR for the convenience of the accused as it would entail long-distance travel for witnesses and complainants during trial proceedings.Dealing with a plea of Pavan Kumar Odela-run Falcon Capital Ventures for clubbing of existing…

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