Dubai Blood Money

The Omani bus driver, who rammed the vehicle into a height barrier in Dubai that killed 17 people, including 12 Indians, has been sentenced to seven years in jail followed by deportation and ordered to pay $925,000 as blood money, according to media reports.

Two Indians got a reprieve just 48 hours before their execution in Kuwait, after paying blood money to relatives of their alleged murder victim and thanks to the efforts of the Indian Embassy in Kuwait who took up the matter strongly.

Seventeen Indians on death row for the murder of a Pakistani national in Sharjah have been granted over a month's time by a UAE appeals court to reach a blood money settlement with the victim's family.Following stalled negotiations over blood money, the Sharjah Court of Appeal adjourned the case again and the next hearing is scheduled to be held on...

The Omani bus driver, who rammed the vehicle into a height barrier in Dubai that killed 17 people, including 12 Indians, has been sentenced to seven years in jail followed by deportation and ordered to pay $925,000 as blood money, according to media reports.

Two Indians got a reprieve just 48 hours before their execution in Kuwait, after paying blood money to relatives of their alleged murder victim and thanks to the efforts of the Indian Embassy in Kuwait who took up the matter strongly.

Seventeen Indians on death row for the murder of a Pakistani national in Sharjah have been granted over a month's time by a UAE appeals court to reach a blood money settlement with the victim's family.Following stalled negotiations over blood money, the Sharjah Court of Appeal adjourned the case again and the next hearing is scheduled to be held on...