New Delhi [India], Mar 2 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday refused to examine the validity of Section 354(5) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) that provides for a death row convict to be "hanged by the neck till he is dead".
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 29 (ANI): A Mumbai court on Saturday sentenced a man, who along with his juvenile brother had fatally assaulted a policeman in August 2016, to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 50,000.
New Delhi [India], Feb 28 (ANI): Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, on Friday filed a curative petition before the Supreme Court seeking to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], Feb 25 (ANI): A special CBI court in Ranchi on Tuesday sentenced former Jharkhand Minister Anosh Ekka, his brother, wife and four other relatives to seven years imprisonment each in connection with a disproportionate assets case.
Beijing [China], Feb 25 (Sputnik/ANI): A court in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo has sentenced Chinese-born Swedish citizen Gui Minhai to ten years in prison for allegedly leaking state secrets.
Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Feb 24 (ANI): The Chittoor Sessions Court on Monday awarded death penalty to a man convicted for raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl in B. Kothakota Mandal.
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Feb 19 (ANI): Five people including former Amritsar SSP Kulatar Singh on Wednesday were sentenced to 8 years imprisonment by a court here in the 2004 case where a family was forced to commit suicide.
Amsterdam, [Netherlands] Feb 16 (ANI): European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS), an Amsterdam based think tank, strongly believes that Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed was sentenced for eleven years by Pakistan to prevent itself from unsustainable consequences.
New Delhi [India], Feb 15 : The sentence to Jama'at-ud-Da'wah (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed days ahead of a key meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Paris is just an eyewash to delude the international community, say defence experts in New Delhi on Saturday.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Feb 13 (ANI): NIA Special Court, Kolkata on Wednesday pronounced judgment in the Samsherganj fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) case and awarded six years of imprisonment with a fine of Rs 5,000 to a Bangladeshi man, named Mijan.
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 12 (ANI): An anti-terrorism court in Lahore on Wednesday sentenced Mumbai terror attack mastermind and chief of the banned Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) Hafiz Saeed to 11 years in prison in terror financing cases.
Washington D.C. [US], Feb 12 (ANI): The four federal prosecutors withdrew from Roger Stone's case on Tuesday (local time) after the top Justice Department officials "disavowed and undercut" them by reducing the government's sentence against long time associate of President Donald Trump, repo