KOLKATA: Three persons awarded death sentence for a murder and incarcerated for the past 11 years were acquitted on Thursday by Calcutta high court, which ruled that the prosecution had failed to conclusively establish their hand in the killing of a 28-year-old woman, whose mutilated body was found at Sealdah railway station in 2014.A division…
AHMEDABAD: A murder that had gripped the city with its gruesome details has ended in acquittal. Gujarat HC overturned a trial court conviction of Nasim Mansuri, who has spent nearly 10 years in jail, over the charge of killing his ex-wife. The case dates back to 2007 when victim Jayshri, a TV actress, was found…
NEW DELHI: A botched investigation by police, which also “planted” evidence, and lopsided proceedings by the trial court sent a man to the gallows in a rape-cum murder case of a child in Uttarakhand. After a decade in jail under the shadow of death, Supreme Court not only quashed his sentence but also acquitted him.A…
AHMEDABAD: A sessions court in Ahmedabad recently acquitted four men accused of rioting and arson in the city’s Naroda area during communal violence that followed Babri Masjid demolition in 1992-93. “No evidence, including CCTV footage or any eyewitness who could link the accused to this offence, has been produced before this court,” additional sessions judge…
NEW DELHI: Twelve years after being convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly burning his wife to death in Tamil Nadu, apex court has acquitted the man after noting that there was inconsistency in dying declarations of the deceased and also there was no other evidence to prove his culpability.A bench of Justices Sudhanshu…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has pulled up the investigating officer for allegedly implicating the accused using a “manipulated video” in a February 2020 riots case and asked the police commissioner to take note. Further, additional sessions judge Pulastya Pramachala rapped the police official for his “unprofessional conduct” in clubbing six complaints in the case…
CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: The court of an additional sessions judge in Nanded on Saturday acquitted nine accused in the 2006 bomb blast in a house at Patbandhare Nagar in Nanded that killed two people and left four injured.Two of the total 12 accused in the case died in the blast that occurred during the night intervening…
MEERUT: SP MLA Rafiq Ansari, representing Meerut city assembly constituency, was acquitted Friday by MP-MLA court in a 1995 riot and arson case. The MLA’s advocate, Vivek Kumar, said “the court found no evidence to proceed with the charges”.The case, lodged on Sept 12, 1995, involved allegations of rioting and arson during a protest against…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Wednesday acquitted six accused, including a former coal secretary and two other public servants, in an alleged coal scam case related to allocation of blocks in Odisha, reports Vineet Upadhyay.Special judge Sanjay Bansal acquitted former coal secretary Harish Chandra Gupta, former joint secretary in ministry of coal K S Kropha,…
Bangladesh’s High Court on Sunday acquitted former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s son, Tarique Rahman, and 48 others, overturning their verdicts in a deadly 2004 grenade attack on a political rally. The ruling comes at a critical time as the South Asian country suffers political tension after longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country to…