NEW DELHI: A man murdered his wife and attempted to pass it off as a suicide in southwest Delhi’s Mahipalpur. After the post-mortem found signs that she had been killed by strangulation, police interrogated the woman’s husband, who confessed to the crime, stating that he was drunk after attending a party and had an altercation…
Lawyers for former senior executives at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northern England have asked for a halt to the public inquiry into the murders of babies by Lucy Letby, a former nurse, citing new evidence that they said called her guilt into question. Speaking in front of the inquiry on Tuesday, Kate Blackwell,…
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…
File photo of Sajjan Kumar (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Tuesday awarded two life terms to Congress ex-MP Sajjan Kumar (80) for murdering a Sikh man and his son during the anti-Sikh riots in Nov 1984. The court said the offences committed were “undoubtedly brutal and reprehensible”.The two life terms – one…
A fresh injection of about 150 foreign officers arrived in Haiti this weekend to bolster an international security force charged with reigning in the powerful and well-armed gangs that have inflicted so much misery on the country for months. But if the past is any guide this latest infusion is unlikely to make much of…
KOCHI/THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A CBI court in Kochi convicted Saturday 14 people, including former CPM MLA KV Kunhiraman, in the 2019 twin murder of Youth Congress members Kripesh, 19, and Sarath Lal KP, 23, in Periya town of Kerala’s Kasaragod district.Ten of the total 24 accused were acquitted. The court will pronounce the sentences on Jan 3….
A United Nations report reveals that homes are the most dangerous place for women and girls, with 140 killed daily by intimate partners or close relatives — equivalent to one woman or girl every 10 minutes in 2023. Globally, 85,000 women and girls were intentionally killed that year, with 60 per cent of these homicides…