A Yamunanagar court has sentenced a man to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting and intimidating a minor Hindu girl to coerce her into a relationship with a Muslim juvenile, terming the case one of “love jihad”. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the convict and said such…
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s former president and one of the country’s most polarizing political figures, was sentenced to prison on Tuesday and barred for life from public office after the Supreme Court upheld her corruption conviction. The ruling is likely to deepen political tensions in the country and comes after Mrs. Kirchner, who was…
Former Australia cricketer Michael Slater. Former Australia Test cricketer Michael Slater has been sentenced to four years in jail; however, the 55-year-old will walk free after already serving more than a year in custody. Slater pleaded guilty to seven charges, including domestic violence.Slater was facing allegations of assault, strangulation, burglary, and stalking against a woman…
President Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of Carlos Watson, a co-founder of the now-defunct digital media company Ozy Media, on the day he was set to surrender to prison, three people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Watson was sentenced in December to almost 10 years in prison for trying to defraud investors and…
WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the murder conviction and death penalty for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man who was found guilty in the killing of a motel owner but has steadfastly maintained his innocence and averted multiple attempts by the state to execute him. Glossip’s wife, Lea, called the decision “an answered…
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…
An Indian court on Monday sentenced to life in prison the man convicted of raping and murdering a trainee doctor in Kolkata, sparing him the death penalty in a case that was a chilling example of how the country remains unsafe for women. The killing in August led to months of protests and political turmoil…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Tuesday said that the government is extending all possible help after Yemen President Rashad Muhammed al-Alimi approved Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya‘s death sentence for murdering her husband.“We are aware of the sentencing of Nimisha Priya in Yemen,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.“We understand that the family of…
KOCHI: A campaign in her native Kerala to secure the release of nurse Nimisha Priya from death row in Yemen suffered a setback Monday after President Rashad Muhammed al-Alimi approved her sentence for murder. Nimisha, from Palakkad, was convicted of murdering a Yemeni citizen, Talal Abdo Mahdi, in 2018 and has been in Yemen’s central…
CHINSURAH (HOOGHLY): Rescued after he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists, Pramathes Ghosal, a 42-year-old private tutor from Dhaniakhali in Chinsurah subdivision of Bengal’s Hooghly district, was on Monday sentenced to death for brutally killing his elderly father, mother and married sister on Nov 8, 2021.Chinsurah trial judge Sanjay Kumar Sharma termed the…