Life-term

The country witnessed euphoric celebrations last evening as Team India won the T20 World Cup, with fans flooding the streets carrying the Tricolour in their hands.

The girl, who was 13 then and known to the convict, has become pregnant as a result of the rape and is now an unwed mother.

The Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction and life-term awarded to a man for the murder of a Delhi University student in Shantiniketan area of south Delhi's Dhaula Kuan in 2011.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to intervene in a Rajasthan High Court's ruling which had granted parole of fifteen days to a life-term convict to father a child.

A 15-day parole to a life-term convict to father a child has apparently caused a flood of such petitions. The parole order, granted by the Rajasthan High Court in April, has now been challenged in the Supreme Court by the state government.

A court in Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore district on Friday sentenced a man to death and 12 others including two police officers to life imprisonment in a 2003 dishonour killing case in which a young couple was killed by the woman's family following their i

A 47-year old murder convict, serving a life-term in the central jail, allegedly died of suspected heart attack early today, police said.

The Supreme Court today lifted its stay on premature release of life-term convicts, allowing state governments to pardon some prisoners with riders.

The Supreme Court has rejected appeals by state governments to lift its stay order on premature release of prisoners who have been sentenced to life.

A 28-year-old youth was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court for stabbing to death his parents-in-law following a quarrel with his wife.

In the harshest sentences yet, a Chinese court on Wednesday sentenced to death four Tibetans and another to life-term for igniting deadly fires in the worst anti-government riots in Lhasa since 1989.

The country witnessed euphoric celebrations last evening as Team India won the T20 World Cup, with fans flooding the streets carrying the Tricolour in their hands.

The girl, who was 13 then and known to the convict, has become pregnant as a result of the rape and is now an unwed mother.

The Delhi High Court has upheld the conviction and life-term awarded to a man for the murder of a Delhi University student in Shantiniketan area of south Delhi's Dhaula Kuan in 2011.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to intervene in a Rajasthan High Court's ruling which had granted parole of fifteen days to a life-term convict to father a child.

A 15-day parole to a life-term convict to father a child has apparently caused a flood of such petitions. The parole order, granted by the Rajasthan High Court in April, has now been challenged in the Supreme Court by the state government.

A court in Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore district on Friday sentenced a man to death and 12 others including two police officers to life imprisonment in a 2003 dishonour killing case in which a young couple was killed by the woman's family following their i

A 47-year old murder convict, serving a life-term in the central jail, allegedly died of suspected heart attack early today, police said.

The Supreme Court today lifted its stay on premature release of life-term convicts, allowing state governments to pardon some prisoners with riders.

The Supreme Court has rejected appeals by state governments to lift its stay order on premature release of prisoners who have been sentenced to life.

A 28-year-old youth was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court for stabbing to death his parents-in-law following a quarrel with his wife.

In the harshest sentences yet, a Chinese court on Wednesday sentenced to death four Tibetans and another to life-term for igniting deadly fires in the worst anti-government riots in Lhasa since 1989.