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- India
Thane court acquits man in wife’s murder case over lack of proof
Thane: A Thane court has acquitted a 32-year-old man accused of murdering his wife in 2021, noting that the prosecution failed to prove “foundational facts” necessary to establish guilt in a case…
- India
Jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim again granted 40-day parole
Chandigarh: Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is serving a 20-year jail term for raping two of his disciples and is lodged in the Sunaria jail in Haryana’s Rohtak,…
- India
Unnao rape case: Plea filed in SC against suspension of Sengar’s jail term
New Delhi: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging a Delhi High Court order suspending the jail term of expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2017 Unnao…
- Hollywood
Doctor to be sentenced for selling Matthew Perry ketamine before ‘Friends’ star’s overdose death
Los Angeles: A doctor who pleaded guilty to selling ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the “Friends” star’s overdose death is set to be the first of five people sentenced…
- World
Imran Khan’s son demands proof of life amid death rumours
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s younger son, Kasim Khan, has urged authorities to provide proof of life, claiming his father is being held in a death cell with no transparency over…
- India
Blue drum murder accused, daughter, shifted to Meerut jail barrack
Meerut (UP): Muskan, jailed in connection with the gruesome murder of her husband and cementing his body inside a blue drum, has been shifted to Barrack 12A of Meerut jail along with…
- India
Muskan, accused in ‘Blue Drum’ murder, gives birth to baby girl
Meerut: Muskan, who is in Meerut jail for the gruesome murder of her husband Saurabh Rajput and hiding his body in a blue drum, gave birth to a baby girl at the…
- India
Thane court convicts Bangladeshi woman for illegal stay in India
Thane: A court in Maharashtra’s Thane has convicted a Bangladeshi woman for staying in India even after the expiry of her visa and ordered her deportation. A copy of the order of…
- India
Nithari killings: Surendra Koli walks out of jail after SC acquittal
Noida: Surendra Koli, accused in the infamous Nithari serial killings, has been released from the Luksar district jail in Greater Noida, a day after the Supreme Court acquitted him in the last…
- World
Canadian court sentences Indian-origin man to 25 years in jail
Ottawa: An Indian-origin man has been sentenced to 25 years in jail by a Canadian court in a three-year-old homicide case, media reports said. A jury at the Supreme Court of British…
- Featured News
Undertrial disparities of caste and religion in PSI 2023 India
The Prison Statistics India 2023 (PSI 2023), published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), offers the latest official snapshot of India’s prison system. Although the report covers data from 2023, it…
- Middle East
Dubai court sends Hyderabad woman to jail for 25 years
Hyderabad: A Dubai court has sent a 24-year-old Hyderabad woman, Ameena Begum, to jail for 25 years over charges of possessing drugs. Following the judgment which was delivered on Wednesday, October 8,…
- India
Delhi court gives bail to man accused in 2020 murder case
New Delhi: A Delhi court has given bail to a man accused in a 2020 murder case, saying he had been languishing in custody for more than five years and the trial…
- Opinions
Beyond the third degree: Why India must break cycle of normalised police torture
By Moumita Barman In September 2025, two seemingly unrelated headlines captured the essence of India’s troubled criminal justice system. The first: Abdul Wahid Shaikh, the only man acquitted in the 2006 Mumbai…
- Middle East
Saudi Arabia releases former imam of Makkah’s Grand Mosque after 7 years in jail
Riyadh: Saudi authorities have recently released Sheikh Saleh Al-Talib, a prominent former imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, after spending more than seven years in prison. The advocacy group Prisoners of…
