Mathura (UP), May 22 (IANS) In a landmark judgment, a fast-track court in UP’s Mathura has sentenced Sukhvir Singh to rigorous life imprisonment for raping and murdering his girlfriend in a guest house in 2020. The verdict was delivered by Additional Sessions Judge, Fast-Track Court for Crimes Against Women-I, Vijay Kumar Singh.The court also imposed a monetary fine on the convict.According to the prosecution, Sukhvir Singh, 31, a resident of Nagla Pohpi under the Refinery police station area in…
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New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) A Delhi court on Friday deferred till June 9 the pronouncement of its decision on framing of charges against Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, his family members and others accused in the alleged money laundering case linked to the IRCTC hotel scam being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The Rouse Avenue Court, which was expected to deliver the order on Thursday, deferred the pronouncement till June 9.The ED case relates to the alleged launder…
Mathura, May 20 (IANS) In a major verdict in a 2017 case, a special fast-track court in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura on Wednesday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for luring passengers into his vehicle, robbing them at gunpoint, attempting to rape a young woman, and killing her brother when he resisted the assault.Additional Sessions Judge, Vijay Kumar Singh, of the Special Fast Track Court (Crimes Against Women) convicted accused Dilip, son of Bhimsen, under multiple Sections of the Indian Penal…
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday said it has unearthed another alleged builder-bank nexus in a homebuyers fraud case and filed its ninth charge sheet against a real estate company, its directors, and bank officials for allegedly cheating homebuyers and financial institutions in connection with a housing project in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad.According to the agency, the chargesheet has been filed against M/s Manju J Homes India Ltd., its directors, an…
New Delhi/Bengaluru, May 19 (IANS) A special court of the National Investigation Agency in Bengaluru has convicted and sentenced a key accused in a terror radicalisation and recruitment case linked to the banned Taliban and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan terrorist organisations to seven years of rigorous imprisonment, an official statement by the National Investigation Agency said on Tuesday. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 63,000 on the accused.The accused has been identified as Thane resident i…
Guwahati, May 19 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement has filed a prosecution complaint under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against a former branch head of Assam Gramin Vikash Bank and another accused in connection with an alleged bank fraud and money laundering case involving Rs 7.28 crore in Assam, officials said on Tuesday. According to the Directorate of Enforcement, the prosecution complaint was filed before the Special Court for Prevention of Money Laundering Act cases in Guwahat…
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has upheld charges, including attempt to murder, against several persons accused of throwing a burning effigy onto the rooftop of a security room at the official bungalow of J.P. Nadda — now the Union Health Minister and then BJP president — during a protest in 2022. A single-judge Bench of Justice Girish Kathpalia, while dismissing a revision petition filed by nine protesters against the Agniveer scheme, observed that violence in the name of pro…
Kolkata, May 17 (IANS) Ambikesh Mahapatra, the Jadavpur University professor who was arrested in 2012 for circulating a cartoon of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Sunday launched a sharp attack on the Trinamool Congress supremo, accusing her of fostering “hooliganism” in the state and enforcing “excessive control over institutions”, ranging from the police administration to the media. Mahapatra was arrested in April 2012 after forwarding an email containing a cartoon se…
Guwahati, May 15 (IANS) In a stern verdict against child sexual abuse, a Special POCSO Court in Assam on Friday sentenced rape convict Mohar Ali to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 25,000. The court further directed that in default of payment of the fine, the convict would undergo an additional six months of imprisonment, underscoring the judiciary’s zero-tolerance approach towards crimes against minors.The incident took place on July 7, 2022, at Kathalguri village un…
Ramgarh, May 15 (IANS) A court in Jharkhand’s Ramgarh on Friday sentenced gangster Aman Srivastava and his associate Lakhan Sao to life imprisonment in the sensational murder of Kameshwar Pandey in 2015. The court of the Additional District and Sessions Judge-I also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each on both convicts.On May 7, the court had held both the accused guilty of murder and criminal conspiracy.After hearing arguments on sentencing, the court on Friday awarded life imprisonment under Secti…