Azam Khan news: The SP leader can lose his MLA post because as per the 2013 Supreme Court judgment if an MLA, MLC or MP is convicted in a criminal case and gets jailed for a minimum of two years then he/she loses membership of the house with immediate effect.
The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has proposed the draft amendment to the Drugs and magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements Act, 1954), with a stringent punishment of a jail term of up to five years and a fine of up to Rs 50 lakh for advertisements for magic remedies and drugs for fair skin, enhancing sexual performance, stammering, infertility in women, premature ageing and greying, increasing brain capacity among others.
The Delhi High Court has upheld the 10-year jail term of a man for raping and sodomising a four-year-old girl known to him, observing that perpetrators of sexual offences on innocent children are "psychosocial deviants" who do not deserve any leniency.
They were later granted statutory bail as the jail term was below four years.
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.
Prasad, who has been serving prison term in Birsa Munda Jail in Ranchi since December 23 last year, is currently undergoing treatment at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) due to chest pain and discomfort.
According to the prosecution, Ashok Kumar Das (26) of Renupada village under Basta police station lured a minor girl of the same village to a secluded place and sexually assaulted her.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today commuted the death sentence of a militant who was involved in the 1997 mass killing at Jarulbachai village in Tripura in which 15 people were shot dead and four
London, Aug 8 : In what is believed to be the first ruling of its kind in the UK, an Indian woman who had an arranged marriage with a mentally disabled British Sikh man has
Hyderabad, May 27: YSR Congress party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, or Jagan as he is popularly called, Monday completed one year in jail in a disproportionate assets case. The member of parliament from Kadapa was
Mumbai, Apr 10: A former Deputy Inspector General of Police was today sentenced to five years' imprisonment by the special Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court here for taking bribe from a junior officer for protecting him
New Delhi, Feb 3: The anti-rape law ordinance on the verge of being promulgated by the President also has a provision for a jail term of three to seven years, if one hires a domestic
New Delhi, Jan 12: The Supreme Court today upheld the conviction and three years jail term given to Mumbai businessman Alastair Pereira for mowing down seven persons by his speeding car in 2006.A bench headed
Whisked away to a women's jail in an unmarked sheriff's car after a brief hearing, actress Lindsay Lohan reported on Tuesday for a 90-day sentence that she is likely to serve in isolation, and which
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