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  4 awarded life term for killing Dalit man 17 years ago

  Crime | December 01, 2019 13:00 IST

  According to special lawyer Yashpal Singh and ADGC Anjum Khan, a Dalit man, Surendra, was killed over old enmity and his body dumped in the fields at Mukandpur village under Titawi police station in the district on December 25, 2002.

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  1984 anti-Sikh riots case: Sajjan Kumar sentenced to life term, says will move SC; victims pledge fight will go on

  India | December 17, 2018 23:34 IST

  The high court said though it was "undeniable" that it took over three decades to punish the accused in the case, it was important to assure the victims that despite the challenges faced by the court, "truth will prevail and justice will be done".

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  Pak court gives life term to key candidate of Nawaz Sharif's party ahead of general elections

  World | July 22, 2018 11:58 IST

  The Control of Narcotics Substances (CNS) court in Rawalpindi handed life imprisonment to PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi, who was convicted for misusing ephedrine chemical.

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  11 people get life term in Ramgarh lynching case

  India | March 21, 2018 21:44 IST

  Judge Om Prakash had found them guilty on March 16 under IPC sections 147 (rioting), 148 (rioting with deadly weapons), 149 (unlawful assembly), 435 (mischief by fire or explosive substance) and 302 (murder).

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  Madras HC upholds life term to man for raping minor daughter, says he acted like beast

  India | March 21, 2018 18:55 IST

  The Madurai bench of the court, in its recent order, said there could never be a graver, heinous crime than a man being charged with raping his daughter.

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  Jigisha Ghosh murder case: Delhi High Court commutes death penalty of 2 convicts to life term

  India | January 04, 2018 12:09 IST

  This comes almost two years after the court awarded death penalty to Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla for kidnapping and killing IT professional Jigisha Ghosh in Delhi.

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  Delhi court sentences ex-TV producer Suhaib Ilyasi to life imprisonment for wife’s murder

  India | December 20, 2017 17:00 IST

  The court also slapped Iyasi with a fine of Rs 2 lakh, and ordered him to pay a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the family of his deceased wife.

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  Life term for cow slaughter in Gujarat as Assembly passes amendments

  India | March 31, 2017 16:39 IST

  The new law also provides 10 years in jail for transporting cows and a significant hike in penalty from Rs. 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh

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  Maruti factory violence case: 13 former Maruti employees get life term

  India | March 18, 2017 21:37 IST

  In a case of violence at Maruti’s Manesar site in 2012 in which a senior company officer had died, A Gurugram court on Saturday awarded life sentence to 13 former employees of Maruti-Suzuki India Limited.

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  Retd colonel serving life term gets 15 day-leave for cataract surgery

  India | May 31, 2014 6:15 IST

  Chennai: Madras High Court yesterday granted 15 days ordinary leave to retired colonel Kandasamy Ramaraj, serving life imprisonment for shooting dead a 13-year-old boy in July 2011, to undergo cataract surgery.  A vacation bench, comprising

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  Three get life term in rape case of tribal minor girls in Chhattisgarh

  India | October 31, 2013 8:36 IST

  Raipur: A fast track court yesterday convicted eight accused in connection with the infamous rape of minor tribal girls of a state-run residential school in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district and sentenced three of them, including a

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  Life term a rule, death penalty an exception, says Supreme Court

  India | September 10, 2013 22:28 IST

  New Delhi: Life imprisonment is the rule and death penalty an exception and courts should also consider socio-economic compulsions such as poverty while awarding the extreme sentence to a convict, the Supreme Court today held."Poverty,

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  Indian national Gopinathan escapes gallows, gets life term in Singapore

  World | August 28, 2013 18:48 IST

  Singapore: Indian national Gopinathan Nair Remadevi Bijukumar was today re-sentenced to life imprisonment under Singapore's amended penal code that saved him from a mandatory death penalty for the murder of a prostitute.Justice Choo Han Teck

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  Two MP cops get life term for murdering woman singer

  India | August 06, 2013 9:30 IST

  Raisen (MP), Aug 6: A local court in Hoshangabad district has awarded life imprisonment to two policemen for murdering a woman singer in April 2010.  Additional Sessions Judge Yogendra Shukla in recent verdict held Abhay

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  Life term for staged shootout to 21, including 13 policemen

  India | July 12, 2013 16:57 IST

  Mumbai, July 12: A Mumbai Sessions Court Friday sentenced to life 21 people, including 13 policemen, for the killing of gangster Ram Narayan Gupta, alias Lakhanbhai, in a staged shootout Nov 11, 2006.The prime accused

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  Indo-Canadian man gets life term for murdering wife

  World | June 22, 2013 20:44 IST

  Toronto, June 22: An Indo-Canadian man has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in Canada for murdering his wife in 2011.The supreme court of the Canadian province of British Columbia has sentenced

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  Jharkhand MLA get life term for kidnap, murder of niece's lover

  India | May 15, 2013 15:24 IST

  Ranchi, May 15: Congress MLA Savna Lakra and three others were today awarded life imprisonment by a local court in a case of kidnapping and murder of a youth who was in love with Lakra's

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  Delhi High Court upholds life term for three Jaish terrorists

  India | May 03, 2013 23:27 IST

  New Delhi, May 3: The Delhi High Court Friday upheld a trial court order sentencing three Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists to life imprisonment under the stringent POTA for plotting a terror attack in the national capital,

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  Teacher gets life term for raping tribal girl

  India | March 21, 2013 10:51 IST

  Khandwa, Mar 21: A special court awarded life imprisonment to a government teacher for raping a minor tribal girl in the district last year. Special court judge Anand Mohan Khare found Manoj Yaduvanshi, working as a

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  Life term means jail term for entire life, says Supreme Court

  India | November 26, 2012 17:35 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 26:  Clearing a misconception on life term imprisonment, the Supreme Court in a significant ruling, has held that life imprisonment implies a jail term for convict's entire life.The apex court also said