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Jharkhand High Court's Justice Gautam Kumar Choudhary underlined the “one factor” weighing heavily for commuting the death penalty to life imprisonment — the difference of opinion on the point of conviction.

Jharkhand High Court commutes death penalty, cites ‘judgment of acquittal’ in division bench’s split decision

December 10, 2025 9:33 am

Justice Rangon Mukhopadhyay ruling, Death penalty negated case: Previously, Justice Rangon Mukhopadhyay opined that the charge against the appellants had not been proved beyond the shadow of all reasonable doubt, whereas Justice Sanjay Prasad held appellants guilty of the offences charged and confirmed the death sentence.

Conviction rate fell further to 42% in 2023 in Chandigarh: NCRB

October 07, 2025 1:10 am

2,209 arrested, with majority being young adults, suggests report

Diddy to Robert Downey Jr: Top 10 Celebrity crime convictions

Top 10 celebrities convicted for crimes ranging from murder, rape to shoplifting: Diddy, Shiney Ahuja to Robert Downey Jr

July 05, 2025 9:13 am

Top 10 Celebrity crime convictions: From assault and tax evasion to manslaughter and murder, here are 10 celebrities whose criminal convictions shook fans and headlines alike.

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How Delhi Police constable posed as ‘decoy customer’, caught man with Rs 60,000 counterfeit currency in 2018

July 03, 2025 1:46 pm

Mohammed Hussain, who was arrested in October 2018, was convicted of dealing in counterfeit currency this year.

A will forged four decades ago and an 88-year-old: Punjab and Haryana HC upholds man’s conviction, reduces sentence

March 19, 2025 4:03 pm

Justice Jasjit Singh Bedi upheld the conviction of an 88-year-old man in a forgery case and ruled that the findings of a civil court are not binding on a criminal court.

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50-yr-old man, convicted in rape case earlier, arrested for raping 3-year-old

July 25, 2024 9:22 am

The case was registered at a police station in Gurgaon on April 26 after a woman lodged a complaint that she and her husband worked as labourers.

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Convicted for selling cow meat, Surat man, son sent to 7 years in prison

July 25, 2023 11:41 pm

The court Monday refused to consider defence lawyer IS Waiji's submission that Ayub is an asthma patient. The convicts were taken into police custody after the conviction and were sent to the Surat District Central jail later in the evening.

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Who is Martin Shkreli 'the most hated man in America'?

March 10, 2018 10:14 am

Martin Shkreli came to be known as "Pharma Bro" at time after founding Turing Pharmaceuticals, buying the anti-parasitic drug Daraprim and raising its price by 5,000 percent to $750 per pill.

Only 24% rape cases led to conviction in 2012, says CJI

April 01, 2014 1:42 am

CJI P Sathasivam said improvement in prosecution system, awareness needed to improve conviction rate.

Error and trial

January 09, 2014 3:16 pm

The court wants strict standards for investigators and prosecutors, but its solution is blunt.

CONVICTION VIDEOS

Pak convict hanged for killing Punjab Governor

February 29, 2016 6:04 am

Pakistan, Feb 29 (ANI): Mumtaz Qadri, the security guard who killed Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, has been hanged to death in Adiala Jail in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi city. Qadri had earlier filed a mercy plea before President Mamnoon Hussain after the Supreme Court maintained his conviction in October last year.

Saying Afzal Guru's conviction was wrong is not sedition: Sorabjee

February 16, 2016 1:12 pm

New Delhi, Feb 16 (ANI): Former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee on Monday reacted over the JNU issue by saying that any criticism against the government does not entail sedition. He further said that the slogans raised in JNU cannot come under the radar of sedition. He added that if there is any incitement of violence, then sedition can be charged and its upto the court to decide the facts. He also went on saying that if someone says that conviction of Afzal Guru was wrong, that's not sedition because sedition is one of the most serious offences.