Time for a law to compensate persons acquitted after long incarceration: Supreme Court | India News – Times of India

Time for a law to compensate persons acquitted after long incarceration: Supreme Court | India News – Times of India

Supreme Court (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted a man who was, on the basis of “faulty investigation, shaky evidence and non-examination of material witnesses”, concurrently convicted and awarded death penalty by a Kerala trial court and HC for murdering a young couple in 2011, and said Parliament can take a…

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Koraput Jail: Where prisoners suffer incarceration and earn income | India News – Times of India

Koraput Jail: Where prisoners suffer incarceration and earn income | India News – Times of India

Proposes to operate fly-ash brick kiln and a petrol pump by inmatesNEW DELHI: A more than a century-old circle jail in Odisha’s tribal-dominated Koraput district is synchronizing ‘crime and punishment’ with ‘reforms and income’ to enable prisoners to sale various items produced by using their skills in handicrafts, agriculture, tailoring, weaving and by operating fabrication…

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‘My mitra, my bhai,’ says Malaysian PM on Manmohan Singh’s death | India News – Times of India

‘My mitra, my bhai,’ says Malaysian PM on Manmohan Singh’s death | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim posted a poignant tribute to Dr Manmohan Singh on ‘X’ Friday, recalling the many kindnesses of “his cherished friend” when he, Anwar, was incarcerated, and describing him as “slightly awkward as a politician but undeniably upright, steadfast and resolute as a statesman”, a man “whose legacy would inspire generations…

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