Source:-https://www.hindustantimes.com After 24 months of trial in an incident of rape and murder of a three-year-old girl, the 29-year-old accused was awarded death sentence by a special POCSO (Protection of Children From Sexual Offences Act) court in Samastipur district on Saturday. The order was passed by the court through video conferencing. The case had come
Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com BHUBANESWAR: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has recommended probe by a Central agency into the brutal murder of the five-year-old girl in Nayagarh’s Jadupur village. The panel’s recommendation came after it observed glaring gaps in the investigation carried out by the local police. “After pursuing the facts submitted by the
Source:-https://www.indialegallive.com A five-year-old girl appeared in the Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday in the hearing of a Habeas Corpus petition. The girl is the main witness in the murder of her mother. The Division Bench of Justice Sandeep Mehta and Justice Manoj Kumar Garg specifically allowed for the proceedings of the case in court premises
Source:-https://www.newindianexpress.com LUCKNOW: IN a major observation, the Allahabad High Court said that filing a charge sheet for attempt to murder a person for attending Tablighi Jamaat meet at New Delhi early this year even though he tested negative for COVID-19 prima facie reflected an abuse of the power of law. The court directed to put
Source:-https://www.indialegallive.com A day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that a law would be formulated against “love jihad,” his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar too said his government was contemplating “legal provisions” against it. Love jihad is a theory that aims to portray a Muslim boy as a jihadi who manipulates and brainwashes
Source:-https://www.ndtv.com New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday stayed the execution of the death sentence awarded to a man, convicted in a murder case for strangulating a woman, cutting her abdomen and taking out some organs from her body.“Leave granted. In the meantime, there shall be stay of execution of death sentence. Call for records,” said
Source:-indialegallive New Delhi: The Orissa High Court has acquitted two people of murder charge, 32 years after they had appealed against the trial court verdict. The single bench of Justice S. K. Sahoo passed this judgment while disposing an appeal filed by Nityananda Behera and Madhaba Behera, who were charged with murder during a clash
Source: aljazeera.com A law firm has filed a petition at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to have Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) investigated for alleged “crimes against humanity”, including the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi, 59, was killed a year ago by a team of Saudi agents in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul
Source: news18.com New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has upheld the life imprisonment awarded to a former soldier for shooting dead a cardiologist here in 2012 while trying to forcibly take away the doctor’s domestic help, whom he claimed to be in love with. The high court said the conduct of the convict post the
Source: thehindu.com Convicted by the Supreme Court in the killing of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya, Mohammed Asghar Ali, a native of Nalgonda, was shifted to Gujarat on Thursday, in-charge Superintendent of Police R. Venkateswarlu said. He is being moved amid tight security and will be produced before the Gujarat court as per instructions,
