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No Bail For Expelled Gujarat IPS Officer Sanjiv Bhatt In 1990 Custodial Death Case
The Supreme Court has denied bail to ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a custodial death case, but has also directed the hearing against the life sentence handed out be expedited.
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45-Year-Old Man Jailed For Life For Raping, Impregnating Minor
Delhi's Tis Hazari Court has awarded life sentence to a 45-year-old man for raping and impregnating a 16-year-old girl. The court delivered the verdict within 20 days of hearing the case.
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Parent-Killing Menendez Brothers' Resentencing Hearing Postponed Till May
The Menendez Brothers, who are serving a life sentence for the 1989 shotgun killings of their parents, are seeking a change in their term that could allow them to be released on parole.
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"Hangman's Noose Not To Be Taken Off": Top Court Commutes Death Penalty
Directing the hangman's noose to be "taken off the convict's neck", the Supreme Court ordered a death row prisoner to remain in jail "till the end of his days given by god almighty".
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Ram Gopal Varma Gets 3 Months In Jail In Cheque Bounce Case, Warrant Issued
Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has been sentenced to three months in jail in a cheque bounce case. The Andheri Magistrate Court, which has been hearing the case for seven years, delivered the verdict on Tuesday.
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Top Court To Hear RG Kar Rape Case Tomorrow, 2 Days After Sentencing
The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Wednesday the matter where it has taken suo moto cognisance of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
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Will Parent-Killing Menendez Brothers Be Freed? Court Hearing From Today
Lyle and Erik Menendez are set to face a judge Monday as the campaign to free them from their life sentences for the shotgun murders of their parents gathers pace.
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Delhi High Court Judge Recuses From Hearing Death Penalty Petition For Yasin Malik
New Delhi, July 11 (IANS) A Delhi High Court judge on Thursday recused himself from hearing NIA's plea seeking the death penalty for Yasin Malik, the chief of banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), who is undergoing a life sentence in a te
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"Well-Reasoned": Top Court Declines Stay Ex-Professor Saibaba's Release
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the acquittal last week of former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba, who was serving a life sentence, and five others - who were accused of Maoist links and charged under-terror law UAPA.
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Supreme Court Orders Rape Convict Asaram To Approach High Court For Bail
The Supreme Court has ordered jailed rape convict Asaram to return to the Rajasthan High Court with his request on staying the sentence against him. The top court also ordered the high court to hear the matter.
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Activist Sharjeel Imam's Bail Plea Rejected By Delhi Court
A court here on Saturday dismissed the plea of student activist Sharjeel Imam seeking bail on the grounds that he had been in custody for the last four years, which was more than half of the maximum sentence prescribed for the offence.
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Madras High Court Convicts Tamil Nadu Minister In Disproportionate Assets Case
Madras High Court Justice G Jayachandran convicted the Minister and his wife and directed them to be present in the court on December 21 for pronouncing the sentence after hearing them.
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Pervez Musharraf's Appeal Against Death Penalty In Court Months After His Death
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear an appeal by now-dead former military dictator Pervez Musharraf against the special court majority judgment that handed him a death sentence on treason charges in 2019.
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Soumya Vishwanathan Murder Case: Hearing For Arguments On Sentencing On November 7
A Delhi court today deferred to November 7 the hearing on the quantum of sentence for the five men convicted for killing TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan in 2008.
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UK Prisons Full: Judges Ordered to Delay Sentencing, Criminals May Be Released Early
The judge emphasized that their "greatest concern" revolved around defendants convicted of rape being allowed to remain on bail rather than being swiftly jailed.
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No Bail For Expelled Gujarat IPS Officer Sanjiv Bhatt In 1990 Custodial Death Case
The Supreme Court has denied bail to ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a custodial death case, but has also directed the hearing against the life sentence handed out be expedited.
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45-Year-Old Man Jailed For Life For Raping, Impregnating Minor
Delhi's Tis Hazari Court has awarded life sentence to a 45-year-old man for raping and impregnating a 16-year-old girl. The court delivered the verdict within 20 days of hearing the case.
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Parent-Killing Menendez Brothers' Resentencing Hearing Postponed Till May
The Menendez Brothers, who are serving a life sentence for the 1989 shotgun killings of their parents, are seeking a change in their term that could allow them to be released on parole.
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"Hangman's Noose Not To Be Taken Off": Top Court Commutes Death Penalty
Directing the hangman's noose to be "taken off the convict's neck", the Supreme Court ordered a death row prisoner to remain in jail "till the end of his days given by god almighty".
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Ram Gopal Varma Gets 3 Months In Jail In Cheque Bounce Case, Warrant Issued
Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has been sentenced to three months in jail in a cheque bounce case. The Andheri Magistrate Court, which has been hearing the case for seven years, delivered the verdict on Tuesday.
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Top Court To Hear RG Kar Rape Case Tomorrow, 2 Days After Sentencing
The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Wednesday the matter where it has taken suo moto cognisance of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
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Will Parent-Killing Menendez Brothers Be Freed? Court Hearing From Today
Lyle and Erik Menendez are set to face a judge Monday as the campaign to free them from their life sentences for the shotgun murders of their parents gathers pace.
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Delhi High Court Judge Recuses From Hearing Death Penalty Petition For Yasin Malik
New Delhi, July 11 (IANS) A Delhi High Court judge on Thursday recused himself from hearing NIA's plea seeking the death penalty for Yasin Malik, the chief of banned Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), who is undergoing a life sentence in a te
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"Well-Reasoned": Top Court Declines Stay Ex-Professor Saibaba's Release
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the acquittal last week of former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba, who was serving a life sentence, and five others - who were accused of Maoist links and charged under-terror law UAPA.
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Supreme Court Orders Rape Convict Asaram To Approach High Court For Bail
The Supreme Court has ordered jailed rape convict Asaram to return to the Rajasthan High Court with his request on staying the sentence against him. The top court also ordered the high court to hear the matter.
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Activist Sharjeel Imam's Bail Plea Rejected By Delhi Court
A court here on Saturday dismissed the plea of student activist Sharjeel Imam seeking bail on the grounds that he had been in custody for the last four years, which was more than half of the maximum sentence prescribed for the offence.
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Madras High Court Convicts Tamil Nadu Minister In Disproportionate Assets Case
Madras High Court Justice G Jayachandran convicted the Minister and his wife and directed them to be present in the court on December 21 for pronouncing the sentence after hearing them.
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Pervez Musharraf's Appeal Against Death Penalty In Court Months After His Death
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear an appeal by now-dead former military dictator Pervez Musharraf against the special court majority judgment that handed him a death sentence on treason charges in 2019.
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Soumya Vishwanathan Murder Case: Hearing For Arguments On Sentencing On November 7
A Delhi court today deferred to November 7 the hearing on the quantum of sentence for the five men convicted for killing TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan in 2008.
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UK Prisons Full: Judges Ordered to Delay Sentencing, Criminals May Be Released Early
The judge emphasized that their "greatest concern" revolved around defendants convicted of rape being allowed to remain on bail rather than being swiftly jailed.
