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Tamil Nadu's Sathankulam case: 9 cops get death sentence for custodial death of P Jayaraj and his son, Bennix, over violation of Covid norms. News18 explains the law, what next Sathankulam Case: In a landmark judgment, a Madurai court on Monday handed the death penalty to nine police personnel in the sensational 2020 Sathankulam custodial death case. The father-son duo, P Jayaraj and J Bennix, died after they were assaulted by the convicted policemen in Sathankulam in Thoothukudi district of Ta ...Read More >
Tamil Nadu Custodial Death: The Madurai court ruling comes nearly six years after P Jayaraj and his son J Bennix were tortured to death in police custody in Thoothukudi district In a landmark verdict that has reignited the debate on custodial violence in India, a Madurai court on Monday sentenced nine Tamil Nadu police personnel to death in the 2020 Sathankulam custodial death case. The ruling, described as falling under the 'rarest of rare' category, comes nearly six years after the brutal dea ...Read More >
Chennai, April 6: Awarding the rarest of rare punishment in the custodial torture and murder of a father and son in south Tamil Nadu that shook the country during the COVID-19 lockdown, a trial court in Madurai on Monday awarded the death penalty to nine policemen found guilty in the case. This is perhaps the first time so many policemen have been sentenced to death in a case of custodial torture, more so in a case where the victims were innocent. Holding that the policemen, who were last mont ...Read More >
PALAKKAD: The Additional District and Sessions Court-IV on Saturday awarded double life imprisonment to 54-year-old Chenthamara (Chenthamarakshan), a resident of Boyan Colony, Pothundi - the lone accused in the 2019 murder of Sajitha, 35, of Nenmara. He was also fined Rs 3.25 lakh, with the court ordering additional imprisonment in case of default. The court awarded separate life terms for murder and house trespass with intent to commit an offence, along with a five-year sentence for destructio ...Read More >
Cuttack: Orissa high court on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of Niranjan Mallick -- convicted for the murder of two persons in Nayagarh district in 2019 -- to life imprisonment.A division bench of Justices B P Routray and Chittaranjan Dash, while confirming the conviction, observed that the case did not merit death penalty. The court cited Mallick's potential for reform and absence of prior criminal record as key mitigating factors.Mallick was awarded the death penalty by the additional ses ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], August 14 (ANI): As India observes the Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and External Affairs Minister on Thursday paid tribute to the people who sacrificed their lives during the Partition of India. Sharing an X post, Goyal said that on August 14, 1947, during the Partition of India, people endured the pain of violence, displacement and loss of loved ones. Also Read | Independence Day 2025: President Droupadi Murmu To Ad ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The Orissa High Court Wednesday commuted the death sentence of a man to life imprisonment in a double murder case of 2019, saying that 'it is well settled law that the possibility of reformation and rehabilitation of the convict is an important factor which has to be taken into account as a mitigating circumstance before sentencing him to death'. A division bench of Justices BP Routray and Chittaranjan Dash, taking note of the positive report of the jail authorities regarding the co ...Read More >
Kannur (Kerala) [India], July 18 (ANI): Following the government's order of remitting her sentence, Sherin Karanavar, the life convict in the 2009 murder of her father-in-law Bhaskara Karanavar, was released from the women's prison and correctional home in Kannur on Thursday. Sherin, who was on parole, completed the procedure for the premature release after returning to the prison in the evening. She is among 11 prisoners who were granted early release. Also Read | 'I Stand With Robert Vadra': ...Read More >
The Court held that brutality of the offence cannot be the sole ground for imposing capital punishment, and the convict's potential for reformation must also be assessed. The Supreme Court on July 16, 2025 upheld the conviction of a man for the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl in 2018 but commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment without remission. The Court held that brutality of the offence cannot be the sole ground for imposing capital punishment, and the convict's potential for ...Read More >
The Supreme Court in separate cases decided on Wednesday ordered two death row convicts to remain in jail for the rest of their lives without remission considering elaborate reports of their social background study, psychological analysis and the mitigating factors to save them from the gallows. The bench headed by justice Vikram Nath, which decided both cases, underlined that in death penalty cases, the high courts should take into consideration the psychological analysis and the social settin ...Read More >
Bengaluru: A 26-year-old man accused of operating an Instagram account that uploaded non-consensual videos of women walking in Bengaluru's public spaces has been detained by police. The arrest comes after a viral Instagram post by a young woman who alleged she had been secretly filmed and subjected to harassment online. The woman had flagged the issue in her post, alleging that she was secretly filmed on Church Street and despite reporting the account and requesting the video to be taken down, ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Delhi HC has overturned the Sentence Review Board's (SRB) rejection of a premature release plea by Santosh Kumar Singh, convicted for the 1996 rape and murder of law student Priyadarshini Mattoo. Justice Sanjeev Narula noted signs of Singh's reformation during incarceration and highlighted the SRB's failure to conduct a psychological assessment. "The matter is being remitted to the SRB for reconsideration," the Court ruled, issuing guidelines for future early release reviews. Si ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday set aside the decision of the sentence review board which had rejected a plea for premature release of Santosh Kumar Singh, who is serving life term for the 1996 rape and murder of law student Priyadarshini Mattoo. Justice Sanjeev Narula said there is an element of reformation in Singh and referred the matter back to the sentence review board (SRB) to consider afresh the convict's premature release plea. "I have found some element of refor ...Read More >
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