A man with a documented history of terrorism-related activities, including ties to terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Al-Qaeda, and another individual facing terror-related allegations, have been appointed to the White House Advisory Board under the Donald Trump administration, according to an investigation by a US-based journalist. Ismail Royer, a former convict in terrorism cases, and…
Representational Image (AI-generated) YAMUNANAGAR: In a landmark verdict, a Yamunanagar court has sentenced a man to death for the abduction, rape, and murder of a 6-year-old girl, following what is believed to be the first such conviction under India’s new Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) law. The sentencing brings closure to a horrific case which shook…
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…
NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court has admitted an appeal filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging the trial court’s decision to sentence Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar medical college and hospital rape-murder case, to life imprisonment without parole. However, the court refused to admit a separate appeal by the…
NEW DELHI: In the Jan 2014 Mumbai rape-murder of an IT professional that created as much sensation as the 2012 Nirbhaya case, Supreme Court Tuesday acquitted Chandrabhan Sudam Sanap by setting aside concurrent decisions of a trial court and Bombay HC that had convicted him and awarded death penalty. “He shall be set at liberty…
NEW DELHI: Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government in West Bengal on Tuesday moved high court seeking death penalty for convict Sanjay Roy, who was granted life imprisonment in the rape and murder of a medic in RG Kar case. Advocate General Kishore Dutta approached the division bench in the case. The court has permitted the filing…
KOLKATA: A sessions court in Kolkata Monday sentenced former traffic police volunteer Sanjay Roy (35) to jail for the remainder of his life for raping and murdering a 31-year-old junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Aug 9 last year, acknowledging that it resisted “the temptation to bow to public pressure or…
An Iraqi who pleaded guilty to commanding insurgents who committed war crimes in Afghanistan filed suit in federal court on Friday, seeking to stop his transfer from the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to a prison in Iraq. The petition, filed by his lawyers, made public negotiations that had been underway for some…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday directed secretary of President of India to place the mercy petition of death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana in assassination case of former Punjab CM Beant Singh before President Droupadi Murmu for consideration. This came after no one appeared on behalf of Centre at the hearing.The apex court…