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  Russia: Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny sentenced to 19 years more on extremism charges

  World | August 04, 2023 20:10 IST

  The 47-year-old Navalny critic is already serving a nine-year term for fraud, contempt of court and was sentenced in 2021 to two-and-a-half years in prison for a parole violation.

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  Puducherry: Parents sentenced to three-year jail term for allowing their 'minor child' drive

  Crime | February 02, 2023 23:38 IST

  Puducherry news: Additionally, a fine of Rs 25,000 has also been levied on parents of minor child for this crime.

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  China: Uyghur has highest imprisonment rate in world, at least 1 in 25 sentenced to prison

  World | May 16, 2022 14:23 IST

   In recent years, China has waged a brutal crackdown on the Uyghurs, a largely Muslim minority, which it has described as a war on terror.

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  Lok Sabha passes Arms Amendment Bill

  India | December 09, 2019 17:20 IST

  The Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019 ensures that those using firearm in a rash or negligent manner in celebratory gunfire, endangering human life or personal safety

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  Two men get 25 years jail term for raping woman in Jharkhand

  Crime | September 08, 2019 13:26 IST

  A Jharkhand court has sentenced two men to 25 years in prison for raping a 20-year-old woman in Simdega town in 2017. Additional district judge (I), Neeraj Kumar Srivastav, has found Vijay Kumar and Ajay Mishra guilty of the crime under sections of the Indian Penal Code and pronounced the quantum of the sentence against them on Saturday.  

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  Former bureaucrat, wife and son sent to jail for dowry death

  India | July 31, 2019 20:14 IST

  Swatantra Kumar Jain, 72, wife Kamla Jain, 65, and their son Anurag Jain, 37, were also slapped with a fine of Rs 1.80 lakh by Additional Sessions Judge Indrapreet Singh Josh. Jain retired as a deputy secretary in the Central government, his wife retired as an official in the Union Public Service Commission, while their son was educated abroad and worked at a private company in Noida.

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  Maharashtra: Man gets 3-year Rigorous Imprisonment for molesting minor girl

  India | July 23, 2019 13:33 IST

  Thane district judge R V Tamhanekar, in his order last Friday, convicted Nadeem Anwar Hussain Ansari, a mechanic from Bhiwandi town, under section 354 (molestation) of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.

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  President gives assent to Gujarat legislation; chain snatchers to face upto 10 years imprisonment

  India | May 22, 2019 16:55 IST

  President Ram Nath Kovind has given assent to a Gujarat legislation under which chain snatchers in the state will face up to 10 years imprisonment instead of three years elsewhere in the country.

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  Man gets life imprisonment for raping nine-month-old daughter

  India | March 27, 2019 22:25 IST

  A special court in Mumbai on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to a man for raping his nine-month-old daughter in 2017.

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  Khaleda Zia sentenced to 7 years in another graft case

  World | October 29, 2018 19:34 IST

  Zia, 73, is already behind bars after being handed a five-year term in February in another case related to embezzlement of funds of an orphanage named after her husband late president Ziaur Rahman.

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  UP: Cleric gets five years jail for attempting to rape minor in Muzaffarnagar

  India | September 28, 2018 10:36 IST

  A local court has sentenced a cleric to five years imprisonment for abducting and attempting to rape a minor girl.

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  Bihar: 13 cops suspended over imprisonment of minor on trumped up charges

  India | June 25, 2018 20:45 IST

  On July 21, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had ordered a high-level inquiry into media reports that the boy was arrested here and sent to jail three months ago.   

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  Five year jail term for 85-yr-old woman for killing daughter-in-law

  India | June 11, 2018 19:39 IST

  An 85-year old held guilty and sent to jail for five years for burning her daughter-in-law to death for dowry.   

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  Govt mulling six-month jail term for those abandoning elderly parents

  India | May 12, 2018 11:39 IST

  The Narendra Modi government is planning to increase the jail term for those who abandon or abuse their elderly parents, to six months from the existing three months, according to a senior official.   

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  Asaram: From self-styled godman to rape convict

  India | April 25, 2018 17:56 IST

  Asaram, one of India's most followed 'godmen' has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2013 Rape Case of a 16-year old at Asaram's Jodhpur Ashram premises.

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  Blackbuck poaching verdict: Five years in jail for Salman Khan; hearing on bail plea tomorrow

  India | April 05, 2018 17:36 IST

  Meanwhile, four others actors – Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Tabu and Neelam – who were co-accused in the case were acquitted by the trial court.

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  Fodder scam verdict: Lalu Yadav, Jagannath Mishra sentenced to 5 years in jail in third case

  India | January 24, 2018 15:24 IST

  A special CBI court on Wednesday sentenced Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav to five years imprisonment in the third fodder scam case.

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  Indian engineer jailed in US for 27 years for funding al-Qaeda

  World | November 07, 2017 16:48 IST

  Yahya Farooq Mohammad pleaded guilty in July to charges of conspiracy to provide and conceal material support or resources to terrorists and solicitation to commit a crime of violence.

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  In trial that lasted 29 years, 5-year jail to two in UP for looting Rs 370

  India | July 19, 2017 11:41 IST

  They regret the “gross mistake” they committed back then and now say that the real punishment for them was the trial and not the jail term they have been given now

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  Not a single day of 'special remission' given to Sanjay Dutt, says Home Department

  India | June 14, 2017 18:01 IST

  The Bombay High Court had on June 12 asked the state government some searching questions and sought justification for its its decision to grant the actor early release from prison