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Police to file rpt on blast convict`s parole plea

The Bombay High Court on Monday sought a verification report from the city police on a plea made by ...

Wanted Nazi war crimes convict dies in Germany

Klaas Carel Faber was convicted in 1947 of involvement in 22 murders and for aiding the Netherlands`...

Jailed ex-Israeli Prez freed briefly for son`s wedding

Moshe Katsav is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence after being unanimously convicted of ...

SC cancels bail of life convicts for misconduct

The Supreme Court Friday cancelled the bail of three convicts, who had secured it claiming that the ...

Pak: Gilani`s conviction sparks protests in Punjab

The PPP workers took to the streets in cities of Punjab, including Gilani`s hometown Multan, to prot...

Two convicted in 1993 Jaipur bomb blasts case

A Pa-trained militant was sentenced to 20 years in jail, while his accomplice awarded 15-year prison...

Apex court seeks time frame for deciding mercy pleas

The Supreme Court asked the government to set a time frame for deciding death row convicts` mercy pe...

Dismal rate of conviction in SC/ST atrocities case

The Centre expressed deep concern over the "dismal" rate of conviction in cases related to atrocitie...

Garg murder: Oz court rejects convict`s appeal

An Australian court rejected an appeal of the Melbourne teenager who was sentenced to 13 years in ja...

SC`s fiat to Centre on death convicts` mercy pleas

Supreme Court asked the Centre to furnish details of the number of mercy petitions disposed off by ...

UP: Rape convict threatens to kill judge

In a fit of rage after being sentenced to 10-year jail term, a rape convict threatened to kill the j...

Indians convicted of abusing daughter-in-law

A US court has convicted three members of an Indian family here on charges of sexually abusing thei...

‘Conviction of human traffickers very low’

The number of convictions secured has remained dismally low, a senior Home Ministry official said. ...

Rajiv assassination:TN challenges parole to convit

P Ravichandran was found guilty of participating in criminal conspiracy to assassinate the former PM...

R-Day: Special remission for 2,500 Tihar convicts

The Delhi government has remitted sentences of 2,500 inmates lodged in Tihar jail on the occasion of...

Iran hangs 12 convicted of serious crimes

Seven of those executed were found guilty of drug trafficking. The other five were convicted of rap...

Myanmar says 651 convicts to be freed under pardon

The video, posted on YouTube and other sites, shows 4 men in camouflage Marine uniforms urinating on...

Six convicts escape from jail, four re-arrested

Six prisoners serving life sentence in murder cases escaped from the Gangtok prison but four of the...

Russian president pardons 27 convicts

Medvedev has made the liberalisation of Russia`s justice system one of his priorities as president.

Shivani case: HC notice on parole plea of convict

Delhi HC sought a response from the city police on a plea of sole convict in journalist Shivani Bhat...

Probe ordered into murder convict`s death in Tihar

Delhi Police has been directed by a local court to probe the unnatural death of a murder convict in ...

17 people convicted in Kandhamal riot case

A local court in Odisha`s Kandhamal district has sentenced 17 people to three-years rigorous impriso...

Man convicted for calling names to woman

A 55-year-old man has been let off by a Delhi court on probation for a year after being convicted of...

Graft case: Sukh Ram moves HC against conviction

The court had sentenced Sukh Ram to five year in jail and ordered his arrest, dismissing his plea fo...

Sukhram convicted in 1996 telecom case

The Himachal Pradesh politician, who is out on bail, has been convicted for the offences which ent...

Viagra murder row: 19 Nepalese convicted

A Nepalese court has convicted 19 villagers for killing seven farmers following a dispute over the...

Punjab: Convict beaten to death in prison

A life convict was on Thursday beaten to death allegedly by two other inmates in Sangrur jail here...

Youth jailed for 7 yrs for bus conductor death

A murder convict, already serving life term, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for pu...

1,100 convicts write Gandhi exam in jails

Nearly 1,100 inmates of 13 jails in Maharashtra appeared for a Gandhi Peace Examination here on Sund...

Court convicts 24 people for Kandhamal riots

A fast-track court in Orissa`s Kandhamal district on Friday sentenced 24 people to three years of ...

Blagojevich`s conviction delayed

Sentencing of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, convicted for trying to auction US Presiden...

12 convicted in Jind honour killing case

A local court here has convicted 12 persons in the honour killing case while acquitting a chief of ...

Vaiko meets Rajiv assassins in prison

MDMK leader Vaiko met the three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case at the p...

Another death row convict gets reprieve

After the three killers of Rajiv Gandhi, another death row convict Mahendra Nath Das got some repr...

Rajiv`s assassin Nalini shifted to Vellore Prison

Nalini was earlier shifted to the Puzhal prison following her complaint of harassment by authorities...

Two murder convicts escape from jail

The jail authorities did not report the incident to the police for nearly four hours, raising furthe...

Accused can be convicted even if not charged: SC

A person can be convicted for an offence even if he or she is not charged with that offence by the...

Two murder convicts found loitering in Tihar jail

Two murder convicts sentenced to rigorous imprisonment were recently found loitering in Tihar jail...

‘Presence of co-accused no ground for conviction’

Presence of co-accused with arms cannot be a ground for conviction, unless there was clear finding...

Four Maoists convicted for Chilkari massacre

Four Maoists were convicted on Wednesday by a local court for the Chilkari massacre in which forme...

SC judge urges PM to release Pak murder convict

The move by the judge did not appear to go down well with the main opposition party BJP.

Pak military over minimal terrorists` conviction

Pakistani military authorities have expressed serious concern over the "dismally low rate of terro...

Convicts can earn, spend time with family: Court

A Delhi court has asked govt to consider a model prisoner reformative system to de-congest jails. ...

Unsafe to convict on doubtful statements: SC

The Supreme Court has ruled that omissions in the statements of witnesses creating serious doubts ...

Circumstantial evidence enough for conviction: SC

A person can be convicted if sequence of events point towards the guilt of the accused, SC said.

Mere recovery of tainted money not a ground for conviction: SC

A person cannot be convicted for corruption on mere recovery of the tainted money unless the charg...

4 points essential to escape murder conviction: SC

An accused can escape conviction for murder if he proves that there was no premeditation for the act...

Prez clears execution of 2 death row convicts

After seven years, the go-ahead has been given for execution of two murder convicts that could sta...

Iran hangs five convicts in public

Number of executions in Iraq climbed to 130 since the beginning of the year.

No conviction if any doubt about prosecution claim: SC

Benefit of doubt should always go to the accused in cases based on circumstantial evidence if the th...

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