Convict Walks Free

Public outcry will not affect judicial decisions, the Supreme Court asserted, as it began weighing the legality of the remission granted to all the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Convicts in Bilkis Bano rape, family's murder released: In special policy on 75 years of Independence, Centre listed rapists among those not covered

Cardinal George Pell's historic child sex abuse convictions were quashed by Australia's High Court on Tuesday, paving the way for the senior Catholic cleric's release from prison.

The death of 14-year-old DeWitt Duckett was historically horrible. Walking down the hallway of his Baltimore middle school one afternoon in November 1983, he was accosted and shot for his Georgetown University jacket. He was the first student ever killed in a Baltimore school. The pressure to solve the case was intense, and early on Thanksgiving Da...

Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 days behind bars, witnesses said.

Naina Sahni Murder: Sushil Sharma, a youth Congress leader who made headlines for one of the most chilling murders Delhi has ever witnessed, was today ordered to be freed immediately by the Delhi High Court.

The killers in three high-profile murder cases in Delhi, who are serving life terms in jail, will not walk free, a board reviewing their sentences has decided. Manu Sharma, convicted for the murder of Jessica Lal, Santosh Singh, the killer of law student Priyadarshini Mattoo and Sushil Sharma -- who killed his wife Naina Sahni and tried to dispose ...

Taking a lenient view towards a 40-year-old man undergoing 10-year-jail term in a rape case, the Delhi High Court has set him free by reducing his sentence to seven years already spent by him behind bars.

Three youths, convicted for assaulting a woman police official in 2013, have been allowed to walk free by a Delhi court which extended them the benefit of probation, saying lack of education and immaturity could be the reasons for their act.

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt will be a free man tomorrow when he walks out of the Yerwada Jail in Pune where he served 42 months, as a part of his five-year sentence after being convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.

Preparations have begun for Sanjay Dutt's return to Bollywood. The actor, who is currently serving his jail term after conviction in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case, is due to walk free in the early hours of February 25. Although that is over a month away, his wife Maanayata has started his image rebuilding process.

Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, will walk out of jail on February 27 after the Maharashtra government cleared a proposal for remission of his sentence. Sanjay Gupta said, "It's fantastic that he will be a free man again and finally be home with his family. His long and painful ordeal will end and he can start life afre...

Even as the juvenile convict in December 16 gang-rape case is set to walk free tomorrow after serving three years in a correction home, some residents of his native village in Badaun are not happy with the prospect of his return.

The youngest of six men who raped and tortured a young medical student on a moving bus in 2012, is likely to walk free on Sunday, with the Delhi High Court saying he can no longer be kept at a correctional home where he has spent a three-year sentence.

With less than two days to go for the release of the juvenile convict in the December 16 gang-rape case, the victim's parents today feared that he might be a "threat to society" and demanded that his mental condition be assessed before setting him free.

Public outcry will not affect judicial decisions, the Supreme Court asserted, as it began weighing the legality of the remission granted to all the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case and murder of her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Convicts in Bilkis Bano rape, family's murder released: In special policy on 75 years of Independence, Centre listed rapists among those not covered

Cardinal George Pell's historic child sex abuse convictions were quashed by Australia's High Court on Tuesday, paving the way for the senior Catholic cleric's release from prison.

The death of 14-year-old DeWitt Duckett was historically horrible. Walking down the hallway of his Baltimore middle school one afternoon in November 1983, he was accosted and shot for his Georgetown University jacket. He was the first student ever killed in a Baltimore school. The pressure to solve the case was intense, and early on Thanksgiving Da...

Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 days behind bars, witnesses said.

Naina Sahni Murder: Sushil Sharma, a youth Congress leader who made headlines for one of the most chilling murders Delhi has ever witnessed, was today ordered to be freed immediately by the Delhi High Court.

The killers in three high-profile murder cases in Delhi, who are serving life terms in jail, will not walk free, a board reviewing their sentences has decided. Manu Sharma, convicted for the murder of Jessica Lal, Santosh Singh, the killer of law student Priyadarshini Mattoo and Sushil Sharma -- who killed his wife Naina Sahni and tried to dispose ...

Taking a lenient view towards a 40-year-old man undergoing 10-year-jail term in a rape case, the Delhi High Court has set him free by reducing his sentence to seven years already spent by him behind bars.

Three youths, convicted for assaulting a woman police official in 2013, have been allowed to walk free by a Delhi court which extended them the benefit of probation, saying lack of education and immaturity could be the reasons for their act.

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt will be a free man tomorrow when he walks out of the Yerwada Jail in Pune where he served 42 months, as a part of his five-year sentence after being convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.

Preparations have begun for Sanjay Dutt's return to Bollywood. The actor, who is currently serving his jail term after conviction in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case, is due to walk free in the early hours of February 25. Although that is over a month away, his wife Maanayata has started his image rebuilding process.

Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, will walk out of jail on February 27 after the Maharashtra government cleared a proposal for remission of his sentence. Sanjay Gupta said, "It's fantastic that he will be a free man again and finally be home with his family. His long and painful ordeal will end and he can start life afre...

Even as the juvenile convict in December 16 gang-rape case is set to walk free tomorrow after serving three years in a correction home, some residents of his native village in Badaun are not happy with the prospect of his return.

The youngest of six men who raped and tortured a young medical student on a moving bus in 2012, is likely to walk free on Sunday, with the Delhi High Court saying he can no longer be kept at a correctional home where he has spent a three-year sentence.

With less than two days to go for the release of the juvenile convict in the December 16 gang-rape case, the victim's parents today feared that he might be a "threat to society" and demanded that his mental condition be assessed before setting him free.