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Shivamogga: Three doctors at McGANN Teaching District Hospital in the Shivamogga district of Karnataka have surgically removed a keypad mobile phone from the stomach of a prisoner lodged at Shivamogga Central Jail. Daulat alias Gunda (30), an inmate, had turned up at the prison doctor for a check-up due to stomach pain on June 23. When the doctor asked him what he had eaten, he lied about swallowing a stone. Later, when he experienced severe stomach pain on June 24, Daulat was taken to McGANN T ...Read More >
SHIVAMOGGA : A mobile phone was surgically removed from the stomach of a convict at Shivamogga Central Prison, prompting a police investigation into how the prohibited item was smuggled into the facility. The convict has been identified as Dhawlath alias Gundu (30), son of Jabbar Sab. He has been serving a 10-year sentence under the NDPS Act since June 15 last year and has been lodged at Shivamogga Central Prison. Chief Superintendent Ranganath P lodged a complaint against Dhawlath at Tunga Nag ...Read More >
Jalpaiguri: A Jalpaiguri special Pocso court on Thursday sentenced three men to death for the 2020 rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl.The convicts -- Rahman Ali, Jamirul Haque and Tamirul Haque -- had dumped the victim's body in a septic tank 30km away from the site of the crime. On Aug 10, 2020, the three abducted the Class 10 madrassa student, raped her multiple times over days and strangled her to death. On Aug 11, her family lodged a missing diary with Rajganj PS. They were nabbed on Aug ...Read More >
Ara: The court of the first additional district and sessions judge, Shailendra Kumar Panda, on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to eight people in a five-year-old murder case."The court also imposed a fine of Rs 3.02 lakh to be paid by each convicted person. Out of this amount Rs 1 lakh each will be paid by all the eight convicts to the bereaved family of the murder victim Mithun Paswan who was shot dead on June 8, 2020 under the Town police station of Ara," said special public prosecutor (PP ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Odisha govt aims to create 10 lakh green livelihoods through engagement in eco-tourism activities by establishing 100 facilities to process medicinal plants. The move is an attempt to engage local communities in its mission to establish green Odisha by 2036. On the occasion of the 76th Van Mahotsav, chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi said on Monday. The govt also introduced new awards for environmentalists and conservationists as well as increased the award money.In his speech, the c ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday, prima facie, observed that Abu Salem, convicted in the 1993 Bombay blasts case, has not yet completed 25 years of incarceration as stipulated in the extradition terms under which he was brought from Portugal. A division bench of Justices Ajey Gadkari and Rajesh Patil made the prima facie observation while hearing Salem's plea seeking premature release. The Court, while admitting the petition, refused to grant any interim relief. Salem approached the HC ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 4 (PTI) A special court in West Bengal's Malda sentenced a retired teacher to life imprisonment on Friday for the rape of a nine-year-old girl, the first conviction in a 2021 post-poll violence case probed by the CBI. Sixty-one cases of murder and crimes against women -- specifically rape or attempted rape -- during the post-poll violence in West Bengal following the declaration of the 2021 Assembly poll results were handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation by the Calcu ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Boosting his chances of securing premature release, Delhi high court Tuesday noted "demonstrable indicators of reformation" in Santosh Kumar Singh, convicted in the 1996 rape and murder case of DU law student Priyadarshini Mattoo.Deciding a batch of petitions by murder convicts, including Singh, challenging the rejection of their plea for remission, HC asked the Sentence Review Board (SRB) to consider their applications afresh in next four months.Justice Sanjeev Narula outlined "an el ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday set aside the decision refusing the premature release of the convict serving life term for the rape and murder of law student Priyadarshini Mattoo in 1996, saying the convict's reformative conduct was not considered. The high court said it found an element of reformation in convict Santosh Kumar Singh and referred the matter back to the sentence review board (SRB) to consider afresh his plea for premature release. "No effort was made to ev ...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 >
Kolkata Gangrape Case: Fresh details have emerged in the alleged gangrape case of a law college student in Kolkata's Kasba. IANS reported, citing investigating officials, that the accused, Monojit Mishra (31), reportedly targeted the victim in a pre-planned manner. Meanwhile, the two other accused, Zaib Ahmed (19) and Pramit Mukhopadhyay (20), actively facilitated the crime. The Kolkata Police, on Saturday, had announced the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT), with an Assistant Com ...Read More >
Balasore: A POCSO court here Thursday sentenced a 60-yearold man to life imprisonment for raping a differently-abled girl, a government advocate said. POCSO Court Judge Indira Priyadarshini pronounced the sentence against Padmalochan Kamila, who raped the 13-year-old girl from his locality April 17, 2024, according to Special Public Prosecutor Pranab Panda. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the convict. In case of failure to pay the fine, the convict will have to serve an additi ...Read More >
Kolkata, June 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the parents of the junior woman doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata, found raped and murdered within the hospital premises in August last year, to approach the trial court in the city where the matter is being heard in a parallel manner for permission to survey the crime scene. Earlier this week, the victim's parents made an appeal to the High Court's single-judge bench of Justice Tirth ...Read More >
The Supreme Court has ruled on the suo motu revision powers of high courts. High courts cannot enhance sentences without appeals from victims. This applies to convictions on other charges too. The ruling came in a case involving Nagarajan. He was convicted by the Madras High Court. The Supreme Court set aside part of the high court's order.The Supreme Court on Wednesday held high courts cannot exercise suo motu revision powers either to enhance the sentence or to convict an accused on any other ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 11 (PTI) A Delhi court has sought a report from police commissioner Sanjay Arora asking why no efforts were made to arrest a man who was serving 10 years in jail in a drugs case but jumped interim bail in 1998 to be held only recently. Additional sessions judge Ekta Gauba Mann was hearing the proceedings regarding a 1994 FIR registered in Jama Masjid Police Station, wherein the investigating officer produced the accused Ashok Kumar Yadav before the court. The court noted the IO' ...Read More >
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to eight convicts in the infamous 1987 Hashimpura massacre case of 38 persons by the personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary. IMAGE: File photograph of Muslims in Meerut staging a protest demanding justice in the 1987 Hashimpura massacre case. Photograph: PTI Photo/Rediff archives A bench comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih took note of the submissions of senior advocate Amit Anand Tiwari, appearing for four convicts, that ...Read More >
Also Read - Bengaluru Police recover stolen Apple Airpods within 20 minutes after compliant According to the report, the court overturned an earlier decision by Bengaluru's Central Prison superintendent, who had denied Chandra's parole request. The judge directed the prison authorities to release him on parole, emphasising that Chandra must not engage in unlawful activities during his 90-day parole. Additionally, the convict must report to the local police station every week on the first day. ...Read More >
The directive from the Supreme Court to the UT of Jammu and Kashmir to formulate a policy on the premature release of convicts marks a significant development in the legal landscape of the region. This call comes in light of the absence of any structured framework to guide decisions on premature release based on the period of incarceration-a framework that is present in other states and UTs in the country. The SC's order came while hearing the case of a convict serving a life sentence for murder ...Read More >
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