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Madras High court says father's role is as 'protector and guardian' of his children

'Father’s paramount duty is to ensure safety, emotional well-being': Madras High Court upholds life sentence of man

November 12, 2025 5:15 pm

Madras High Court POCSO verdict, POCSO Act 2012 judgment: The Madras High Court upheld the life imprisonment sentence of the father convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, observing that a father is expected to be the 'protector and guardian' of his children.

The victim’s two sons gave key testimony that helped secure the conviction.

Agra woman, lover get life term for killing husband — sons turned key witnesses

November 11, 2025 5:17 am

Holding the accused guilty of the charges, the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Sanjay K Lal sentenced Kusuma, Sunil, and Sunil’s associate Dharamveer to life imprisonment.

Gujarat: Former BJP MLA, ex-IPS get life imprisonment for extorting trader for bitcoins worth Rs 12 crore in 2018

August 30, 2025 1:20 am

Kotadiya was elected MLA from Dhari Assembly constituency in 2012 as a candidate of Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP), an outfit floated by former chief minister Keshubhai Patel

2022 Cab driver murder: Gurgaon court awards life term to two, 14 yrs in jail to third

July 19, 2025 2:16 am

Court says case not rarest of rare: 'no reason to believe that they (convicts) cannot be reformed or rehabilitated'

Panchkula man sentenced to life for murder over property dispute

July 18, 2025 11:13 pm

Businessman, 65, convicted for intentionally killing a man by hitting his scooter with a car

murder Cadell had returned from Australia in 2009 without completing the engineering course that he had gone there to take. He then felt he was neglected in the family

Life sentence for Kerala man Cadell Jeansen Raja, who claimed ‘astral projection’ led him to murder family

May 14, 2025 2:53 am

According to the prosecution, Cadell had largely isolated himself and spent his days more in the virtual world than the real one. He was also found to have frequently been playing violent video games and allegedly got inspired by them.

Telangana murder convict on the run for 6 years arrested in Andhra Pradesh

May 03, 2025 1:27 pm

Boddu Thirupathi, 31, had severed all ties with his family in Telangana, taken up a new identity and job and married a widow in Andhra Pradesh.

Delhi court sentences man to rigorous life imprisonment for sodomising 12-year-old boy

April 19, 2025 3:32 pm

Additional Sessions Judge Babita Puniya, hearing the arguments urged policy makers to consider "socio-psychological factors" to find lasting solutions for the increase in rape cases.

Gujarat: Court sentences 25-year-old man to life term for minor’s rape

March 25, 2025 10:10 am

The three-and-a-half-year-old girl was raped on August 27, last year, in Valsad district

Violent woman's temporary release on furlough dangerous to society, prisoner's conduct "insufferable": Jail authority to HC

March 12, 2025 12:13 am

The authority was responding to a plea by Seema Gavit, one of the two sisters whose death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment by the High Court in 2022whatsa