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- India
Delhi riots: Court pulls up police over mosque attack probe
New Delhi: An Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav of a Delhi court pulled up Delhi police over its investigation into Madina Masjid attack that took place during Delhi riots last year. Police…
- India
Mukhtar Ansari brought to Banda jail after 14-hour journey
Banda: After an arduous journey of more than 14 and a half hours, mafia don and BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari was brought to Banda jail on Wednesday morning. The convoy bringing Mukhtar reached…
- Middle East
UAE: Woman sentenced to 10 years in jail for stripping naked in front of cops
Dubai: A woman who tried to resist the arrest by stripping naked in front of cops has been sentenced to 10 years in jail. The court has also imposed a find of…
- India
After spending 40 yrs in jail as undertrial, Nepali man released by high court
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday ordered the release of a Nepali citizen who has been incarcerated for over 40 years in a correctional home here as an undertrial prisoner in connection…
- Crime and Accident
Tripura man gets 12-year jail for cheating, raping woman
Agartala: A 32-year old man was awarded 12-year prison term and fined Rs 60,000 by a local court here for cheating and raping a woman on the pretext of marriage. Additional District and…
- Hyderabad News
Man sentenced to 7- yrs imprisonment for sexually assaulting his daughter
Hyderabad: A man was sentenced to seven yearsimprisonment and fined Rs.20, 000 today, for sexually assaulting his daughter. His conviction came after a complaint was lodged with the Pochampally police station in 2016 by…
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Munawar Faruqui released from Indore central jail
Indore: Stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui walked out of Indore central jail late on Saturday night, a day after the Supreme Court granted him bail in a case for allegedly hurting religious sentiments.…
- Crime and Accident
Maha: Two policemen get 4 years RI for accepting bribe
Palghar: A special court in Vasai of Maharashtra on Wednesday sentenced two policemen to four years of rigorous imprisonment for demanding and accepting bribe. In his order, special judge Sudhir Deshpande convicted Sanjay…
- India
126 test COVID-19 positive within 10 days in UP jail
Gorakhpur: As many as 123 inmates of the Basti jail and three prison staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 10 days, an official said on Monday. “A barrack has…
- India
Maharashtra to begin ‘jail tourism’ from Jan 26
Nagpur: Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Saturday announced the beginning of jail tourism in the state. While addressing a press conference in Nagpur, Deshmukh said that Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray…
- Crime in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: 67-year-old man gets seven years in jail for killing wife
Hyderabad: A local court in Malkajgiri on Monday sentenced a 67-year-old man to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for killing his wife. According to the investigation officer, on 26 July 2018, the…
- Crime and Accident
Rajasthan man jailed till death for raping minor
Kota: A court in Rajasthan’s Jhalawar district on Saturday convicted a 40-year-old man of raping a three-and-half-years-old girl and sentenced him to life imprisonment until his natural death. The Protection of Children from…
- Crime in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: 63-year old man gets 7 years in jail for killing his ‘alcoholic’ son
Hyderabad: A local court in Hyderabad on Tuesday convicted a 63-year-old man and sentenced him to seven years imprisonment for killing his 28-year-old son in 2018. During the trial, the Additional District Judge…
- Crime in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Man gets 10 years in jail for sexually assaulting minor girl
Hyderabad: A local court in Hyderabad convicted a 26-year-old man and sentenced him to ten years of Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) for sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl. According to the investigation officer, the…
- Crime and Accident
Man gets life sentence for killing lover
Mumbai: A sessions court here on Tuesday sentenced a 38-year-old man to life imprisonment for murdering his lover and dumping her dismembered body in a lake in suburban Chembur in 2013. Prabhakar Shetty,…
- Hyderabad News
Hyderabad: Husband, mother-in-law get 7 years in jail for dowry death
Hyderabad: A local court in Malkajgiri sentenced a man and his mother to seven years in jail for the dowry death of their daughter-in-law, on Tuesday. The victim had killed herself by committing…
- India
Odisha assembly passes bill that provides for jailing govt employees for strike
Bhubaneswar: Amid strong opposition from the BJP and the Congress, the Odisha Essential Services (Maintenance) Act Amendment Bill that has the provision of imprisonment for striking government employees was passed in the assembly…
- Crime and Accident
UP: Man gets 10-year jail in rape case
Banda: A court here sentenced a man to 10-year imprisonment in a rape case and also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on him. Special Public Prosecutor Ramsuphal Singh said Special Judge Mohammad…
- Crime and Accident
Maha: Man gets seven years in jail for wife’s murder
Jalna: The Jalna district court in Maharashtra has sentenced a man to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment for burning his wife to death. District judge F M Khwaja in his order on Wednesday also…
- Crime and Accident
Two sentenced to life for human sacrifice in Odisha
Kendrapara: A court in Odisha’s Kendrapara district on Thursday sentenced two persons to life imprisonment for killing an eight-year-old boy as part of an occult ritual five years ago. District and sessions judge…
- Crime and Accident
Man gets 20-yr jail for raping girl
Bulandshahr: A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district sentenced a man to 20 years in jail on Wednesday for raping a 5-year-old girl. The additional district and sessions judge also imposed a fine…
- Crime and Accident
UP: 77-yr-old man serving life sentence dies in jail
Fatehpur: A 77-year-old inmate, who was serving life sentence in a murder case ,died in the district jail on Sunday, police said. “Faiz Mohammad, a resident of Kot village under Khakheru police station…
- India
Nagpur Central Jail authorities accept Dr. G. N. Saibaba demands
Nagpur: Today i.e. on 22nd Oct 2020, at 3:00 p.m. family members of Dr. G.N. Saibaba got a phone call from Nagpur Central Jail. Dr. Saibaba informed that the Additional DIG (Prisons)…
- Delhi
Six prisoners infected with COVID-19 in Delhi jails: authorities
New Delhi: The jail authorities submitted before the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that six prisoners, who are lodged in several jails in the national capital, are currently infected with COVID-19. The submission was made…
- India
‘After 23 years in prison, I am in another jail’
By MAQBOOL MAJID Srinagar: Mirza Nisar Hussain, 40, a resident of downtown Srinagar, was acquitted of all charges and released from a jail in Rajasthan in July last year after 23 years…
- Crime and Accident
Maha: Man gets life imprisonment for killing woman
Thane: A court in Maharashtra’s Thane has sentenced a 37-year-old tribal man from neighbouring Palghar district to life imprisonment for killing a woman. In the order passed on Wednesday, district and additional sessions…
- India
Allahabad High Court grants bail to Azam Khan, his wife, son
Prayagraj: The Allahabad high court has granted bail to Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan, his wife Tanzeen Fatima and son Abdullah Azam in a case of alleged forgery of Abdullah’s birth documents. Justice…
- Crime and Accident
Maharashtra: Four men sentenced to 20 years RI in gangrape case
Nagpur: A sessions court has sentenced four men to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment and fined them Rs 55,000 each for raping a woman in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. District sessions judge R…
- Hyderabad News
450 Indian workers trapped in Saudi Arabia jail rescued
Hyderabad: As many as 450 Indian workers who were trapped in a Saudi Arabian jail for the last four months because they couldn’t return home due to coronavirus lockdown were rescued on Saturday…
- Crime and Accident
Mandoli Jail inmate commits suicide
New Delhi: A 26-year-old inmate of Mandoli Jail allegedly hanged himself in his barrack early on Friday morning, officials said. The deceased, identified as Salim, was an undertrial prisoner, the officials added. Director…
