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38 years on, 3 life convicts freed: Allahabad High Court calls it 'blind murder', says punishment based on 'conjectures'
December 31, 2025 10:00 pm
Allahabad High Court Verdict Blind Murder Case: Justices Sanjiv Kumar and J J Munir declared the 1982 incident a 'blind murder' committed by unknown assailants pointing out that medical records completely contradicted the eyewitness testimonies.
Acid attack case: Delhi court says 'brutal, diabolical' while awarding life term to two men who forced acid down minor's throat
December 12, 2025 5:18 pm
Delhi Acid attack case: The court said that an acid attack victim, who died 18 months after the attack, and his family suffered a deep trauma on a day-to-day basis.
Premature release of prisoners: Delhi HC suggests reconstitution of Sentence Review Board, fine-tuning 2004 policy
June 12, 2025 5:29 pm
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Sentence Review Board to consider the premature release plea of a convict serving life imprisonment for murder.
Bombay HC upholds life term to self-proclaimed tantrik convicted of raping six minor girls
March 03, 2024 7:00 am
The Court observed it is unfortunate reality that people knock on doors of so-called tantriks for solutions who take advantage of vulnerability and blind faith
Tripura man who beat wife to death while drunk gets life sentence
October 12, 2023 8:16 pm
Rakhel Munda hit Mani Munda on her head with a piece on wood and she suffered severe haemorrhaging and died on the spot, according to police.
Man gets death sentence for rape, murder of 11-yr-old girl in Surat
March 29, 2023 6:34 am
In the order, Special POCSO judge BG Golani mentioned,“Both the accused... have been found guilty and convicted under IPC sections 302, 376(2)(j), 376 (3), 376 (a), 376 (a)(b), 376 (d) (b), 342, 363, 201, 34 and 114, as well as different sections of the POCSO Act.”
Man gets life term for murder of AMU student
February 23, 2023 6:35 am
All accused were out on bail. Following Mazhar's death, a large-scale violence took place at the university.
Man sentenced to life imprisonment for mother-in-law’s murder
May 23, 2022 7:47 am
In October 2015, the Pune Rural police had arrested Umesh Tanaji Satpute, a resident of Satpute Vasti in Rajgurunagar for the murder of his mother-in-law Sharada Dattatray Gorde.
Gujarat court awards life sentence to man in rape-murder case; convict hurls footwear at judge
December 29, 2021 4:11 pm
The convict, a native of Madhya Pradesh, raped and murdered a five-year- old girl in April this year.
Bombay HC commutes life term of man accused of killing wife
September 26, 2021 8:48 pm
The court said that it cannot consider “offence devoid of emotion” and observed that the man could not be convicted for murder as he had lost his self-control and assaulted his wife in a fit of rage.
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