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Ten years of imprisonment for illegal organ trade

Doctors and touts involved in illegal organ transplantation will be put behind bars for 10 years, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said after the union cabinet approved his ministry’s proposal to amend the Transplantation of Human Organs Act.
Azad said, There was a need for amendment. We are happy that the cabinet has approved the proposal. [...]

Life term for 10 cops upheld

Delhi High Court upheld the life sentence for the 10 police officials convicted for shooting down two innocent businessmen in CP (delhi) 12 years ago.
Justices B.N. Chaturvedi and GS. Sistani upheld the life term for then ACP SS. Rathi and nine others for gunning down Pradeep Goyal and Jagjit Singh on the Barakhamba Road March, [...]

Charge sheets filed against a Delhi blasts accused

Delhi Police filed four supplementary charge sheets against a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist, charged with hacking the wi-fi system to send e-mails to media houses just before last year’s Sept 13 serial blasts in the Delhi.
Submitting the charge sheet in the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, the special cell of Delhi Police [...]

Bombay HC acquits ’serial killer’ in murder case

Bombay High Court acquitted alleged serial killer Ravindra Kantrole in a 2007 murder case, reversing the judgement of a trial court that convicted him of the crime.
Justices Bilal Nazki and A R Joshi acquitted him in the case, after Ravindra Kantrole filed an appeal in the HC.
Ravindra, who was charged with three murders, was earlier [...]

Court acquits man of charges of raping employer’s wife

A Delhi court has acquitted a man of the charge of raping the wife of his office worker, saying the victim seemed to be in love with the accused and made a story of sexual assault to shield herself from her husband’s anger.
Additional Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma said , The entire conduct vis-a-vis evidence suggests [...]

HC to the rescue of pregnant girl

Coming to the rescue of a pregnant minor girl who was allegedly kidnapped by her neighbour in capital , the Delhi HC directed the city government to provide protection to the girl. Court directed adequate medical arrangement for safe delivery of child.
Delhi police for delay in tracing her, Chief Justice AP Shah and Justice Manmohan [...]

Former MP gets bail in murder case

Patna HC granted regular bail to a former LJP MP facing life-term in connection with the killing of a former Bihar minister.
Surajbhan Singh was facing life imprisonment for his involvement in the murder of former minister and RJD leader Brij Bihari Prasad. He was killed in judicial custody in 1998.
Justices Chandra Mohan Prasad and [...]

HC lets off Pandher in one Nithari case

Allahabad HC found no evidence in one case against Moninder Singh Pandher, the key accused in the sensational killings of at least 18 young girls and boys in Nithari in Noida(UP).
Court gave a clean chit to Pandher, who was awarded death sentence by the special trial court of the CBI, it upheld the same sentence [...]

Jammu-Kashmir HC grants bail to 4 police officials in Shopian case

Jammu and Kashmir High Court granted bail to four police officials arrested for alleged destruction of evidence in Shopian’s rape-murder case and made some harsh observations against the police team probing the incident.
Justice Sunil Hali, who had heard two separate bail applications moved by the police officers, granted bail to SP Javed Iqbal Mattoo, DSP [...]

Patna HC stays summons proceedings against Nitish kumar

Patna High Court stayed the summons issued against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar by a subordinate court in connection with the murder of a Congress worker over 18 years ago.
Justice Sima Ali Khan ordered stay on the summons against Mr. Nitish Kumar issued by a court on August 31 on a writ petition filed by [...]

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