Source: mynation.com Kottayam: The Kottayam principal sessions court in Kerala will pronounce the verdict in Dalit Christian Kevin Joseph’s murder case on August 14. Earlier, the Kerala high court had asked the Kottayam principal sessions court to pronounce the verdict of the case within six months. However, the Kottayam principal sessions court will pronounce the
Source: orissapost.com Chandigarh: Sensing the gravity of the matter, the Punjab and Haryana High Court here Wednesday decided to hear Thursday the Kathua rape victim father’s plea seeking death penalty for the heinous act and murder of his eight-year-old daughter in Jammu and Kashmir last year. The father has sought an enhancement of the life sentence
Source: newindianexpress.com KOCHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an accused in the sensational Abdu murder case who was hiding in Qatar for the past several years. The arrested is EA Sihar, 35, of SN Puram, Kodungalloor. The incident related to the case occurred on December 14, 2006, when Abdu, a native of Eriyad
Source: dnaindia.com The Gujarat High Court on Monday refused to uphold the death sentence awarded to a 38-year-old man for kidnapping, raping, and murdering a six-year-old girl. However, it ensured that the man would have to repent for committing the heinous crime for the rest of his life as it converted his death sentence to
Source: jantakareporter.com In an extraordinary development, the Chhattisgarh High Court has stayed the investigation into the death of a BJP MLA, who was killed in a Maoist attack in April this year. Since the victim is a BJP MLA, the National Investigation Agency had decided to take control of the investigation. The state government had
Source: moneycontrol.com The Supreme Court rejected a petition that sought a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the murder of Darvesh Yadav, the first woman president of the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council. Yadav was shot dead by a colleague at the Agra District Court. A vacation bench comprising Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice BR
Source: thehindu.com The Delhi High Court has upheld the dismissal of two policemen who allowed Vikas Yadav to leave his hospital room in AIIMS, without parole on the night of Deepavali in 2011. Vikas Yadav was facing trial and serving a 25-year jail term for the murder of Nitish Katara. A Bench of Justices Vipin
Source:- hindustantimes.com Three men convicted for gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua were on Monday sentenced to life in jail. A Pathankot court, which had convicted six people a few hours earlier, sentenced three others to five years for destroying evidence to shield the rapists. Sanji Ram, a retired revenue department official, Deepak
Source: indianexpress.com The case dates back to January 1, 2012 when the girl’s father lodged a missing complaint for his daughter. A day later, he was called to the morgue to identify the body of a child he said was his daughter. Setting aside the death sentence handed out by a trial court to a
Source: hindustantimes.com The Bombay high court (HC) on Thursday issued a notice to the Central and state governments, after two men convicted for the rape and murder of a Pune BPO employee in 2007 filed separate petitions seeking to halt their execution and commute their sentence to life imprisonment. Purushottam Borate and Pradeep Kokade have
