40-year-old Bhavesh Patel, man who was sentenced life imprisonment for alleged involvement in the 2007 Ajmer dargah blast, was welcomed and hailed with full honour on his home return to Bharuch after he was granted bail by Rajasthan High Court last week. Patel was granted life imprisonment along with Devendra[Read More…]
Tag: Life Imprisonment
1996 Sonipat bomb blasts: Abdul Karim Tunda awarded life imprisonment
Haryana’s Sonepat court on Tuesday awarded Abdul Karim Tunda to a life term in the 1996 Sonepat bomb blasts case. The 75-year-old was convicted by the additional district and sessions Judge, Sushil Kumar Garg on Monday. Tunda held guilty under section 307 (attempt to murder) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy)[Read More…]
2002 Godhra train case: Gujarat HC commutes death sentence of 11 convicts to life term
The Gujarat High Court commuted the death sentence of 11 convicts in the 2002 Godhra train case to life imprisonment on Monday upholding a lower court’s order awarding life imprisonment to 20 other convicts in the case. The bench of Justice AS Dave and Justice GR Udhwani pronounced its verdict[Read More…]
1993 Mumbai blast: Abu Salem, Karimullah Khan get life imprisonment
The Terrorist and Disruptive Activity (TADA) court on Thursday sentenced convicts Abu Salem and Karimullah Khan to life imprisonment in the 1993 Mumbai blast case. The other two convicts, Tahir Merchant and Feroz Khan were awarded death sentence by the court. Convict, Riyaz Siddiqui was sentenced to 10 years in[Read More…]
Rocky Yadav, two others sentenced to life imprisonment in road rage incident
Suspended JD(U) legislator Manorama Devi’s son, Rocky Yadav, and three others were sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for killing a 19-year-old student in a road rage incident in Bihar’s Gaya district in 2016. His father, Bindi Yadav, has also been sentenced to five years in jail for destruction of[Read More…]
Techie Rajesh Gulati sentenced to life imprisonment in wife’s murder case
A Dehradun court on Friday sentenced software engineer, Rajesh Gulati, to life imprisonment in connection with his wife, Anupama Gulati’s murder. The Dehradun Chief Judicial Court (CJI) on Thursday convicted the engineer in a seven-year-old murder case under Section 201 and 302 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) on charges of[Read More…]
Rajiv Gandhi’s assasin requests UN to ask Centre to release her
Charged with the assassination of former Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi, Nalini Murugan has requested the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (OHCHR) to ask the Government of India to release her. She has written a six-page letter addressed to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, wherein she explained[Read More…]
Kerala govt planned to remit sentences of criminals including murderers, reveals RTI
Information obtained under the Rights to Information Act revealed that the Kerala government had recommended to remit sentences of noted criminals and release 1911 convicts on November 1, 2016 . The list included TP Chandrasekharan murder convicts, liquor contractor Manichan and controversial businessman Muhammed Nisham, who was sentenced to life[Read More…]
American man gets life for drug smuggling in Indonesia
Philip Russell, an American, has been found guilty of drug smuggling and been given a life sentence by an Indonesian court. Russell was sentenced on Wednesday by the District Court in Semarang, the provincial capital of Central Java. On Thursday, a court spokesperson said that 56-year-old Russell was arrested with[Read More…]