NEW DELHI: Delhi high court has granted relief to a man denied premature release while serving a life term for hijacking an Indian Airlines flight in 1993, saying his conduct in jail bore signs of reformation.A single judge bench of Justice Sanjeev Narula set aside a decision of a Sentence Review Board (SRB) against Hari…
NEW DELHI: Doing the unthinkable, a Bihar superintendent of police has filed an affidavit before Supreme Court supporting a Patna high court order granting bail to five of the eight accused convicted of murdering a village mukhiya in 2022.Sashinath Jha, mukhiya of Udapatti village in Samastipur, was killed by eight persons. After investigation by police,…
Five people have been sentenced to prison over what the authorities in Germany described as a plot to kidnap the country’s health minister on live television in 2022 in an attempt to destabilize the German state. After a nearly two-year trial, a court found on Thursday that the five, under a group billed as the…
NEW DELHI: Delhi court on Wednesday convicted former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 riots case for killing two people of Saraswati Vihar area in the national capital.This case pertained to the killing of Jaswant Singh and his son, Tarundeep Singh, in Saraswati Vihar on November 1, 1984. Delhi’ Rouse Avenue court convicted Kumar…
A French court convicted the director Christophe Ruggia on Monday of sexually assaulting the actress Adèle Haenel when she was a minor, handing him a four-year sentence — two years under house arrest and the rest suspended. It was the first major case to examine an accusation of sexual misconduct in French cinema since the…
Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai. (PTI) NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Pary (BJP) on Friday held a “Black Day procession” in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, to protest against what it called the “glorification of a terrorist.” Police detained BJP state president K Annamalai and leaders of other organizations who participated in the march. The protest…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to two more convicts in connection with the massacre of 38 persons at Hashimpura in UP by the Provincial Armed Constabulary personnel. The apex court on December 6 granted bail to eight convicts in the case. A bench comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George…
RANCHI: The Jharkhand High Court on Friday ordered the release of three convicts, sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder involving a sum of Rs 200 in Deoghar district, after over three decades. The court, while hearing the appeal filed by Kishun Pandit, Jamadar Pandit and Lakhi Pandit, directed them to be freed from the…