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Describing them as a “menace to the society,” the Supreme Court on Friday sentenced to death a cab driver and his male friend for “brutally” raping and murdering an “innocent and helpless” BPO employee in Pune in 2007. Jyoti Chowdhari, 22, was traveling in her company’s pick-up cab on November 1, 2007, when the driver […]

NEW DELHI: Sahara chief Subrata Roy, behind bars for the last 14 months, may get out of jail next week as he told the Supreme Court on Friday that he had managed to raise sufficient cash and bank guarantee of Rs 5,000 crore to fulfill the bail condition. The court had directed Roy on March

PATERSON, NEW JERSEY: A paternity case involving a set of twins had a surprise ending worthy of a daytime TV talk show: The girls have different dads. A judge ruled Monday in a paternity case that the man from whom the twins’ mother sought child support has to pay for only one of the children.

BHIWANDI: The Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi appeared in a Bhiwandi court on Friday in Maharashtra’s Thane District in a defamation case filed against him. The Supreme Court, however, had stayed criminal defamation proceedings against Rahul Gandhi on Thursday. READ ALSO: Supreme Court stays defamation proceedings against Rahul Gandhi Bhiwandi Court has given next date

KOCHI: An NIA special court in Kochi on Friday sentenced 10 accused in the sensational palm chopping case to 8 years of rigorous imprisonment each. Court sentenced the 10 accused for various offences of IPC and UAPA, with the maximum punishment being 8 years rigorous imprisonment. The court also ordered for giving Rs 8 lakh

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The vigilance and anti-corruption bureau (VACB) will interrogate finance minister KM Mani in connection with the bar bribery case that is being probed by the agency. The investigating arm of the agency, the special investigation unit-I, has conveyed the decision to the minister and has sought a convenient time for the procedure. Even though

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday declined to give interim protection from arrest to AAP MLA Jarnail Singh, who is accused of participating in preventing an MCD engineer from demolishing an unauthorised building, causing damage to state property and beating up the engineer. The court of Justice Sunita Gupta has issued notice to the police

“Compensation matters more than conviction,” say the victims of the 2002 hit-and-run case in which Bollywood star Salman Khan has been sentenced to five years in jail. Abdullah Rauf Shaikh, who lost a leg in the accident, said, “Nobody came to visit me in the last 13 years. I am forced to do petty jobs

LeT operations commander Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of 2008 Mumbai terror attack, has pleaded before an Anti-Terrorism Court to exempt him from appearing in the court, citing alleged security threat. Advocate Raja Rizwan Abbasi, counsel for Lakhvi, filed the application in the ATC Islamabad on Monday requesting it to exempt his client from appearing

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday refused to grant an interim stay on the state government’s beef ban law, but directed the state and the police authorities not to take action against anyone for possession of beef. The order means the beef ban law, including Section 5D of the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act