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Over 6,000 Signatories Demand To Reverse Bilkis Bano Convicts' Release
Over 6,000 citizens, including grassroot workers and women and human rights activists, have urged the Supreme Court to revoke the remission of sentences for 11 men convicted of rape and murder in the 2002 Bilkis Bano case.
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"Reverse Bilkis Bano Convicts' Release": Telangana Leader's Appeal To PM Modi
Echoing other Opposition parties and human rights activists, KT Rama Rao, Working President of Telangana Rashtra Samiti, called the release "nauseating" and asked the PM to intervene
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Rahul Gandhi Squandered Goodwill By Allying With Lalu Yadav: Nitish Kumar
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday said Congress president Rahul Gandhi has squandered his goodwill by allying with RJD chief Lalu Prasad, going opposite to his stand when he tore an ordinance aimed at reversing a Supreme Court order on disqualification of convicted politicians.
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1984 Anti-Sikh Riots Verdict Live Updates: Sajjan Kumar Convicted, Gets Life Term
Reversing a trial court judgement in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, the Delhi High Court convicted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar of criminal conspiracy in the case and sentenced him to life imprisonment. "It is important to assure the victims that despite the challenges, truth will prevail and justice will be done," the Delhi High Court said in its judg...
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Japan Court Reverses Ruling That Freed 'Longest-Serving' Death Row Inmate
A Japanese court has overturned a lower court ruling that freed a man described as the world's longest-serving death row inmate, raising the prospect that the 82-year-old could eventually be imprisoned again
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In Rare Reversal, China Court Overturns Magnate's Decade-Old Graft Conviction
China's supreme court overturned the decade-old bribery and fraud conviction of a retail magnate on Thursday, a rare reversal amid a government drive to crack down on corporate misdeeds.
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Indian-American's Conviction Reversed, Court Orders New Trial
India-born student Dharun Ravi, who had served a 20-day prison term for spying on his gay roommate who later committed suicide, won a major legal reprieve after a New Jersey appeals court threw out his conviction and ordered a new trial.
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Oscar Pistorius 'Must Pay' For His Crime, Says Reeva Steenkamp's Father
In March, Oscar Pistorius's lawyers failed to reverse an appeal judgement that upgraded his original conviction from culpable homicide -- the equivalent of manslaughter -- to murder
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Sepp Blatter Tries to Reverse Ban in FIFA Appeal
Sepp Blatter met the FIFA appeals committee in a bid to reverse a conviction for ethics violations issued by a FIFA tribunal in December.
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Florida Man Who Killed 3 Women Scheduled For Execution
Oscar Ray Bolin was first found guilty of murdering three women nearly 30 years ago. In the decades since, every one of the verdicts delivered by juries in three separate trials was reversed at least twice by appeals courts, although ultimately he was convicted again in each case: 10 times by 10 juries, to be exact.
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US Marine Convicted Of Killing Filipina Transgender Woman Files Appeal
The lawyer representing a US Marine found guilty of killing a transgender Filipina filed an appeal today seeking to reverse his conviction.
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Former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta's Latest Bid To Reverse Insider Trading Conviction Fails
Less than three months before his two-year prison term ends, India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta has lost yet another bid to overturn his conviction on insider trading charges, with an appeals court in New York rejecting his latest legal challenge.
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US Opposes Rajat Gupta's Plea to Reverse Conviction
The prosecutors said the IIT and Harvard-educated former McKinsey head, who is serving a two-year sentence, had a "powerful" financial incentive to tip his billionaire hedge-fund operator friend Raj Rajaratnam.
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US Opposes Former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta's Plea to Reverse Conviction
India-born ex-Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta's conviction on insider trading charges should not be thrown out as the government provided "overwhelming" proof against him for passing on illegal information in return for "expected potential pecuniary gains," US prosecutors said.
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Indian's Conviction for Spying on Gay Roommate Could be Reversed in New York
An Indian-origin former student, convicted for spying on his gay roommate who then committed suicide, could see his conviction for bias intimidation reversed after the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the state's law in this regard was unconstitutional.
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Over 6,000 Signatories Demand To Reverse Bilkis Bano Convicts' Release
Over 6,000 citizens, including grassroot workers and women and human rights activists, have urged the Supreme Court to revoke the remission of sentences for 11 men convicted of rape and murder in the 2002 Bilkis Bano case.
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"Reverse Bilkis Bano Convicts' Release": Telangana Leader's Appeal To PM Modi
Echoing other Opposition parties and human rights activists, KT Rama Rao, Working President of Telangana Rashtra Samiti, called the release "nauseating" and asked the PM to intervene
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Rahul Gandhi Squandered Goodwill By Allying With Lalu Yadav: Nitish Kumar
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday said Congress president Rahul Gandhi has squandered his goodwill by allying with RJD chief Lalu Prasad, going opposite to his stand when he tore an ordinance aimed at reversing a Supreme Court order on disqualification of convicted politicians.
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1984 Anti-Sikh Riots Verdict Live Updates: Sajjan Kumar Convicted, Gets Life Term
Reversing a trial court judgement in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, the Delhi High Court convicted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar of criminal conspiracy in the case and sentenced him to life imprisonment. "It is important to assure the victims that despite the challenges, truth will prevail and justice will be done," the Delhi High Court said in its judg...
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Japan Court Reverses Ruling That Freed 'Longest-Serving' Death Row Inmate
A Japanese court has overturned a lower court ruling that freed a man described as the world's longest-serving death row inmate, raising the prospect that the 82-year-old could eventually be imprisoned again
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In Rare Reversal, China Court Overturns Magnate's Decade-Old Graft Conviction
China's supreme court overturned the decade-old bribery and fraud conviction of a retail magnate on Thursday, a rare reversal amid a government drive to crack down on corporate misdeeds.
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Indian-American's Conviction Reversed, Court Orders New Trial
India-born student Dharun Ravi, who had served a 20-day prison term for spying on his gay roommate who later committed suicide, won a major legal reprieve after a New Jersey appeals court threw out his conviction and ordered a new trial.
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Oscar Pistorius 'Must Pay' For His Crime, Says Reeva Steenkamp's Father
In March, Oscar Pistorius's lawyers failed to reverse an appeal judgement that upgraded his original conviction from culpable homicide -- the equivalent of manslaughter -- to murder
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Sepp Blatter Tries to Reverse Ban in FIFA Appeal
Sepp Blatter met the FIFA appeals committee in a bid to reverse a conviction for ethics violations issued by a FIFA tribunal in December.
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Florida Man Who Killed 3 Women Scheduled For Execution
Oscar Ray Bolin was first found guilty of murdering three women nearly 30 years ago. In the decades since, every one of the verdicts delivered by juries in three separate trials was reversed at least twice by appeals courts, although ultimately he was convicted again in each case: 10 times by 10 juries, to be exact.
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US Marine Convicted Of Killing Filipina Transgender Woman Files Appeal
The lawyer representing a US Marine found guilty of killing a transgender Filipina filed an appeal today seeking to reverse his conviction.
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Former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta's Latest Bid To Reverse Insider Trading Conviction Fails
Less than three months before his two-year prison term ends, India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta has lost yet another bid to overturn his conviction on insider trading charges, with an appeals court in New York rejecting his latest legal challenge.
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US Opposes Rajat Gupta's Plea to Reverse Conviction
The prosecutors said the IIT and Harvard-educated former McKinsey head, who is serving a two-year sentence, had a "powerful" financial incentive to tip his billionaire hedge-fund operator friend Raj Rajaratnam.
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US Opposes Former Goldman Sachs Director Rajat Gupta's Plea to Reverse Conviction
India-born ex-Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta's conviction on insider trading charges should not be thrown out as the government provided "overwhelming" proof against him for passing on illegal information in return for "expected potential pecuniary gains," US prosecutors said.
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Indian's Conviction for Spying on Gay Roommate Could be Reversed in New York
An Indian-origin former student, convicted for spying on his gay roommate who then committed suicide, could see his conviction for bias intimidation reversed after the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the state's law in this regard was unconstitutional.
