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Ahmedabad: Mumbai Police's economic offences wing (EOW) took custody of Birju Salla, a Mumbai-based businessman previously convicted and then acquitted in a hijack-threat case, from Ahmedabad City Police's crime branch Thursday morning. The action follows his arrest in a multi-crore cheating case involving a Mumbai jeweller.Crime branch officials said Salla was arrested Wednesday from a city five-star hotel where he had checked in under a false identity. He was wanted in connection with a Rs 12. ...Read More >
Kolkata: Sealdah trial judge Anirban Das, who sent the RG Kar rape-murder accused to life behind bars, sentenced a 45-year-old to death on Wednesday for murdering and robbing an elderly Chitpore couple 10 years ago. The judge ordered that Sanjay Sen, alias Bappa, "be hanged from the neck until dead" for murdering the couple -- both retired professors -- who trusted him and even paid for his marriage.The judge, on Jan 20, sentenced RG Kar rape-and-murder accused Sanjoy Roy to life behind bars and ...Read More >
Jabalpur, July 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a chilling case, a 22-year-old woman sustained severe burn injuries after her childhood friend allegedly hurled acid on her face out of jealousy and personal vendetta. The incident occurred on the night of June 29 in Awadhpuri Colony under the jurisdiction of the Gwarighat police station in Jabalpur. The accused, identified as 21-year-old engineering graduate Ishita Sahu, was arrested shortly after the attack. According to police, Ishita lured her former f ...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: BJP's fact-finding team leaves after a visit to the premises of a law college where an alleged gang rape of a student took place last week, in Kolkata, Monday, June 30, 2025.Source : PTI The South Calcutta Law College has been shut for an indefinite period following the alleged gang rape of a first-year law student, with college authorities announcing a suspension of all BA LLB and LLM classes, according to a notification issued on Monday. The decision, taken by the college's governing ...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 >
Kolkata, June 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Investigating officials probing the rape of a law college student at Kasba in Kolkata revealed that the accused Monojit Mishra targeted the victim in a pre-planned manner and the two other accused persons namely Jaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukhopadhyay became active facilitators in this well-thought-out crime. Sources said that both Ahmed and Mukhopadhyay have admitted that the video recording of the crime was also a part of the well-thought-out crime to blackmail th ...Read More >
Kolkata: Arindam Kanjilal, victim's advocate in the alleged Kolkata gang rape case which happened on June 25, in his interaction with ANI, said, that the highest punishment shall not be less than 20 years and can lead up to life imprisonment. He said, "Based on the FIR registered by the victim the matter that came forward that it is a gang rape.... The highest punishment shall not be less than 20 years and can exceed up to life imprisonment." Arindam appreciated the swift action taken by the Be ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 30 (ANI): The recent alleged gang rape of a law student within her college premises in Kolkata has reignited public outrage over women's safety in educational institutions, drawing sharp political reactions. Amid mounting criticism from the public, a probe committee set up by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is being questioned by Congress MP Imran Masood, calling the move unnecessary and emphasising that the case is 'not a matter of politics'. Masood emphasised that the ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 30 (ANI): Arindam Kanjilal, victim's advocate in the alleged Kolkata gang rape case which happened on June 25, in his interaction with ANI, said, that the highest punishment shall not be less than 20 years and can lead up to life imprisonment. He said, 'Based on the FIR registered by the victim the matter that came forward that it is a gang rape.... The highest punishment shall not be less than 20 years and can exceed up to life imprisonment.' Arindam apprec ...Read More >
Kolkata rape case: The prime accused Monojit Mishra, now at the center of an alleged gang-rape case involving a 24-year-old law student, had called for a death penalty of the guilty in the RG Kar rape, murder case last year. "Want death sentence for the rapist. Want justice and not drama. Want immediate justice. Want death sentence for the guilty," Monojit Mishra had written on his social media account on August 16, 2024. With more shocking details emerging, the police have revealed that the p ...Read More >
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee's remarks on the Kolkata law college gangrape case sparked a controversy. Banerjee said that nothing could be done if a friend is raped by another friend. The Bharatiya Janata Party condemned the TMC MP's remarks. "What can be done if a friend rapes his friend. Will the police be in schools? This was done by students to another student. Who will protect her (victim)?" Banerjee said as reported by NDTV. "Who does all this criminality and mole ...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: Fourteen years after Ritesh Kumar Shaw -- a garments trader from Burrabazar -- attempted to murder his wife in front of their four-year-old son, a Barrackpore court on Friday sentenced him to life imprisonment for orchestrating the crime to claim insurance benefits.Santonu Chakrobarty, public prosecutor-in-charge, told TOI that the accused shot his wife, Madhumala Shaw (40), after he made an insurance policy of Rs 1 crore in her name and named himself as the nominee. Cops said Shaw plan ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 27 (ANI): A female student was allegedly gang-raped inside a law college in Kolkata's Kasba on Wednesday evening. The police have arrested all three accused within 24 hours. The three accused, named as Monojit Mishra (31), Zaib Ahmed (19), and Pramit Mukhopadhyay (20), were former students or staff members of the same law college. Also Read | Student Gang-Raped at South Kolkata Law College: Police Arrest 3 Youths for Sexually Assaulting Young Woman Inside La ...Read More >
Ahmedabad, Jun 27 (PTI) The Gujarat High Court on Friday extended the temporary bail granted to self-styled godman Asaram till July 7 in the 2013 rape case for which he is serving a life sentence. The division bench of Justices Ilesh Vora and Sandeep Bhatt extended Asaram's temporary bail, granted on March 28 initially for three months, during the hearing of the plea. Asaram (86) is on bail on medical grounds. The extension was granted so that his lawyer could submit the necessary documents i ...Read More >
Kolkata: A law college student was allegedly gangraped in West Bengal's Kolkata. The alleged incident took place on June 25 in the Kasba area of Kolkata in the evening. Three accused were reportedly arrested in connection with the case. According to a report by Telegraph India, among the three accused two are students at the college, while the third is the former student. An hour after the complaint was filed in the matter, two students were reportedly arrested from the Talbagan area on Thursda ...Read More >
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 27 (ANI): The family members of Indian Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla gathered in Lucknow to celebrate as the Axiom Mission 4 mission crew successfully reached the International Space Station. The historic mission marks a significant milestone for India's space ambitions. Shambhu Dayal Shukla, father of Group Captain Shukla, expressed his gratitude and pride, stating, 'I thank all for coming to celebrate and bless my son. His achievement is a ma ...Read More >
Lucknow: Two individuals convicted in the Shravan Sahu murder case. Ajay Patel and Baboo Khan have been granted conditional bail by the Lucknow High Court's double bench. This comes less than a year after a CBI special court sentenced eight people, including Khan, to life imprisonment on August 22, 2024, also imposing a fine of Rs 1 lakh on each. Advocate Alvi, representing Baboo Khan, stated that Khan's role in the 120B conspiracy was unclear, and his bail was granted based on the precedent se ...Read More >
Gurgaon: Two days after a law student died and his friend suffered critical injuries when a car knocked them down as they stood near railing on the service lane of Delhi-Jaipur highway in the early hours of Tuesday, a civil engineer was arrested on Thursday.Mohit (31), an employee of a private company in the city, told police that he got drowsy while driving. He is staying at a PG facility in Sector 14.The student who died, Harsh Singhal (25), was a resident of Om Nagar colony. His friend Abhish ...Read More >
Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has granted bail to the convict Babu Khan in the Shravan Sahu murder case. The court has granted bail to Babu Khan on the basis of parity of the bail granted to co-accused Ajay Patel on Apr 21, 2025, on the basis of his case being similar.A vacation bench of Justice Pankaj Bhatia and Justice Kshitij Shailendra passed the order, allowing the bail plea moved by the appellant Khan along with the appeal . The bench observed, "Considering the reasoni ...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 >
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Congress general secretary Rajesh Soni was arrested on Friday and charged under a tough section of the BNS for allegedly uploading "misleading" as well as "morale-breaking" content related to Operation Sindoor on a social media platform.After the registration of an FIR on Thursday, the Cyber Crime Cell of the state CID arrested Soni in the early hours over his controversial posts on the operation launched by Indian armed forces to destroy terror hubs in Pakistan and Pakistan O ...Read More >
Ahmedabad, Jun 6 (PTI) Gujarat Congress general secretary Rajesh Soni was arrested on Friday and charged under a tough section of the BNS for allegedly uploading "misleading" as well as "morale breaking" content on a social media platform related to 'Operation Sindoor', police said. After registration of an FIR on Thursday, the Cyber Crime Cell of the state CID arrested Soni in the wee hours over his controversial posts on the operation launched by Indian armed forces to destroy terror hubs in ...Read More >
Denpasar (Indonesia), Jun 5 (AP) Indonesian authorities on the tourist island of Bali on Thursday announced the arrests of several foreign nationals, including an Indian, Australian and an American, on suspicion of possessing narcotics, charges that could carry the death penalty. Customs officers at Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport arrested an Indian national with the initials HV, who was carrying a duffel bag, in the customs and excise inspection area on May 29. The officers found narco ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin praised the Chennai Mahila court's verdict after it awarded the life sentence for a minimum period of 30 years without remission and a fine of Rs 90,000 to the accused Gnanasekaran, who has been convicted of sexually harassing a student on the Anna University campus in December last year.In a post on X, Tamil Nadu CM said the state police responded through action to those who merely pretend to care about women's safety."Tamil Nadu Police has responded ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, May 28: The additional district and sessions judge (ADJ) court in Patnagarh, Balangir district of Odisha, on Wednesday pronounced the judgment in the sensational parcel bomb case in which a newlywed software engineer, Soumya Sekhar Sahu and his 85-year-old great-aunt, Jemamani Sahu died on February 23, 2018. The 26-year-old Soumya Sekhar's wife, Reema Sahu, 22, also sustained grievous injuries in the blast that shook the whole state as well as the country in 2018. As per the victim ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 3 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Monday granted interim bail to expelled BJP leader and Unnao rape case convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar to undergo an eye surgery on February 4. A bench of Justices Yashwant Varma and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar suspended Sengar's sentence of life imprisonment and directed him to surrender before the jail authorities on February 5. In view of the reprieve given by the division bench, single judge Justice Vikas Mahajan extended the same relief to Senga ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jan 27 (PTI) The Calcutta High Court on Monday reserved its order on the admission of two appeals, one by the West Bengal government and the other by the CBI, challenging a trial court order which sentenced RG Kar hospital rape-murder convict Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment till death. Both the CBI and the state government separately prayed for capital punishment for the convict. The court's division bench, presided by Justice Debangsu Basak, heard both the state government and the CB ...Read More >
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