Motive/intention completely missing; can’t be convicted for murder: SC | India News – The Times of India

Motive/intention completely missing; can’t be convicted for murder: SC | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: An Anganwadi worker, leading a happy family life in a remote Chhattisgarh village, inexplicably bludgeoned to death her daughters, aged five and three with a crowbar, cried incessantly after the murders and claimed during trial that she was possessed by ‘invisible powers” at the time of committing the crime.She was convicted on Monday…

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Two men convicted in plot to assassinate Iranian-American journalist in New York

Two men convicted in plot to assassinate Iranian-American journalist in New York

Two mobsters were convicted Thursday for their involvement in a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her home in New York City. The federal court verdict finished a two-week trial that featured powerful testimonies from a hitman and Alinejad, a renowned author, activist, and Voice of America contributor. Alinejad, who was…

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SC sets free over a dozen convicted for murders by trial courts and HC | India News – The Times of India

SC sets free over a dozen convicted for murders by trial courts and HC | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: In the last one year, the Supreme Court has acquitted more than a dozen persons, who were convicted concurrently by the trial courts and the High Courts and sentenced to death or life imprisonment, in cases that included rape-cum-murder of a 10-year-old girl and manslaughters.Despite repeated SC rulings that concurrent decisions of the…

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