Azamgarh Court

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  Former UP State Minister, 3 Others Gets Life Term For Lawyer's Murder

  An MP-MLA court in Azamgarh on Friday awarded life imprisonment to four persons including a former state minister in connection with the murder of an advocate.

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  18 Years After Murder, 3 UP Men Sentenced To Life In Prison

  A local court in Uttar Pradesh has awarded life sentence to three persons for killing a man 18 years ago.

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  Former Uttar Pradesh MLA Gets Life Sentence In 24-Year-Old Murder Case

  A special court in Azamgarh on Wednesday awarded life sentence to former Samajwadi Party MLA Abhay Narain Patel and three others in a 24-year-old murder case.

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  Man Gets Life Imprisonment For Raping Minor Daughter For 5 Years

  A POCSO court in Azamgarh on Wednesday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping his daughter repeatedly for five years.

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  UP Man Gets Death Sentence For Murdering Infant, Her Parents

  An Azamgarh court on Wednesday gave a death sentence to a man for killing three members of a family, including a four-month-old child, after raping her mother in a village under Mubarakpur police station of the district 17 months ago.

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  Court Allows Batla House Encounter Convict To Attend Sister's Wedding

  The Delhi High Court has granted one-day parole to a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative, serving life term for killing a police officer in the Batla House encounter, to attend his sister's wedding in Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, but directed that he will go there in police custody.

• Petition Seeks Action Against Amit Shah for Controversial Remark

  A petition was filed in the Allahabad High Court on Thursday seeking action against BJP leader Amit Shah for his statement in which he had described Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh as a "haven for terrorists".

• Batla House encounter case: Convict Shahzad Ahmed gets life sentence

  A Delhi court today awarded life sentence to Shahzad Ahmed, convicted last week in the controversial 2008 Batla house encounter case. The court also asked the alleged Indian Mujahideen operative to pay a fine of Rs 50,000.

• Batla House encounter: Delhi court to pronounce sentence today

  A Delhi court is likely to pronounce the sentence in the controversial 2008 Batla house encounter case today. Shahzad Ahmed, the only man arrested in the case, was last week found guilty of murdering inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, who was leading that operation.

• Who is Shahzad Ahmed?

  Shahzad Ahmed, 23 when he was arrested from his village in Azamgarh district, has been held guilty by a court of killing a Delhi Police inspector in what is called the Batla House encounter of 2008.

• Batla House encounter verdict today: ten facts of the case

  A Delhi court will decide today on whether Shahzad Ahmad, a young man from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, opened fire at a police team to kill Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma in what is called the Batla House encounter, five years ago. The police alleges that Shazad is an Indian Mujahideen operative, and one of four men respsonsible for seria...

• Are political parties guilty of patronising terror suspects?

  Just ahead of the chief ministers' conference, Uttar Pradesh government's commitment to give justice to "falsely implicated" terror suspects kicked up a storm. The state government sought legal opinion to withdraw terror cases against two Muslim youths from Azamgarh - Tariq Kazmi and Khalid Mujahid (alleged members of Harkat-ul-Jehad al-Islami or H...