The Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge and Special Judge for CBI Cases on Friday convicted and sentenced three men, including two former branch managers of a nationalised bank, to one to three years of imprisonment and slapped a fine of ₹52 lakh in connection with a bank fraud case amounting to ₹12.63 crore. The … Read more
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Friday set aside the Manjeri Additional Sessions Court’s order sentencing nine accused in the Kottakal double murder case to life imprisonment. The murder took place in 2008 on the premises of a mosque at Kottakkal near Kuttippuram due to group rivalries among the mosque committee. The … Read more
The Bombay High Court has acquitted a maternal uncle who had been sentenced to ten years in prison for sexually assaulting his minor niece who later gave birth to a daughter. A bench of Justice Sarang Kotwal was hearing an appeal against a judgement passed by the Mangaon Sessions court in Raigad which had concluded … Read more
A jury in Idaho unanimously agreed Saturday that convicted killer Chad Daybell deserves the death penalty for the gruesome murders of his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children, ending a grim case that began in 2019 with a search for two missing children. The 55-year-old Daybell, wearing a dress shirt and tie, sat with … Read more
Image for representation | Photo Credit: KUMAR SS The Sessions Court in LB Nagar on Friday sentenced a 50-year old lorry driver Mallsetty Yeshwanth, more than two years after two persons were killed and one injured in a gruesome road accident. The court sentenced the accused to undergo 10 years imprisonment along with a fine … Read more
A washerman, Chakali Ravi Kumar, 35, who was lodged in Anantapur District Jail on charges of killing his twin sons on October 14, 2020, at Boilapalli village of Kalyandurg Mandal in the district, was on Thursday sentenced to three years of rigorous imprisonment by Principal Sessions Judge G. Srinivas under Section 304-II of IPC. The … Read more
March 10, 2022 The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to renew the Violence Against Women Act, a lapsed law designed to reduce domestic violence and sexual assault, The New York Times reported. The VAWA provides funding for programs that support victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, such as rape crisis centers, as well … Read more