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- Hyderabad
Hyderabad man sentenced to 20 years RI for raping step-daughter multiple times
Hyderabad: A court has sentenced a 39-year-old Hyderabad man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 for sexually exploiting a minor girl…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Court orders imprisonment for 371 traffic offenders
Hyderabad: Around 371 traffic offenders out of the 4,360 people booked by the city traffic police received imprisonment from the Metropolitan magistrate court in Nampally. The remaining 3,989 offenders were fined a…
- India
SC upholds life imprisonment to woman for killing her 5-year-old child
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has upheld the life term sentence handed down to a woman from Tamil Nadu for murdering her five-year-old female child, as she was forced to live with…
- Telangana
Telangana: 9 yrs after wife’s suicide, man jailed for abetment
Hyderabad: A man was convicted in a domestic violence and abetment to suicide case of 2014, and was handed a three-year jail term on Monday, nine years after the incident. Bibinagar police on…
- Middle East
Saudi govt agents infiltrated Wikipedia, sentenced two to prison: Report
Riyadh: The Saudi Arabian government infiltrated Wikipedia and jailed its two high-ranking officials, in a bid to control the content on the website, activists, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) reported…
- India
Former Hindustan Organic Chemicals GM gets 1 yr jail, Rs 3 cr fine in DA case
Thiruvanthapuram: A special CBI court in Kerala has sentenced a former General Manager of Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd to one year rigorous imprisonment in case of owning disproportionate assets. The court also…
- India
Punjab: HC stays imprisonment of Daler Mehndi in human trafficking case
Chandigarh: In a relief to singer Daler Mehndi, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday granted stay to the decision of a Patiala Court that had sentenced him to two years…
- India
Chidambaram slams Guj govt on Bilkis Bano case convicts’ remission
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram, reacting to a video showing convicts in Bilkis Bano being “welcomed” in Gujarat, said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exhortation to people to respect women…
- India
Bilkis Bano case: All 11 life imprisonment convicts released
Godhra: All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape and murder of seven members of her family on Monday walked out of Godhra sub-jail…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP: 60-year-old man gets 20 years jail term for raping minor
Hyderabad: A 60 year old man has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by the First Class District Court on Thursday, for raping and impregnating a minor girl. BJ Pullaiah of Sangapatnam…
- India
Coal scam: HC Gupta sentenced to three year imprisonment
New Delhi: A Special CBI Court of Delhi on Monday awarded three years imprisonment to former Coal Secretary HC Gupta in a coal scam case after finding irregularities in the allocation of…
- Middle East
Telugu YouTuber’s claim of entering Makkah sparks row
Hyderabad: The claim by a Telugu YouTuber that he visited Islam’s holiest site Makkah in Saudi Arabia has sparked a row with a section of netizens calling for action against him for…
- Middle East
UAE: Jail term, fine of Rs 1 crore for online slander, swearing
Abu Dhabi: United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities announced the imposition of a fine of up to Dirhams 500,000 (Rs 1,08,78,588) and jail term for those found to be slandering or swearing online.…
- India
Daler Mehndi arrested in 2003 human trafficking case, sent to jail
Chandigarh: A court in Punjab’s Patiala on Thursday dismissed the plea of leading bhangra-pop singer Daler Mehndi against his two-year jail in a 19-year-old human trafficking case. He was subsequently arrested and sent…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Man sentenced to 3 years in prison for attempting wife’s murder
Hyderabad: A man was sentenced to three years of imprisonment after he was convicted for domestic violence and attempting to murder his wife, on Friday. The 55-year-old accused, Betala Balakrishna, was married…
