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UK Teens Watched Murder Videos On "Dark Web" Before Stabbing Trans Girl
A UK judge on Friday took the rare step of lifting a ban on identifying two juveniles in court after they were convicted of murdering a 16-year-old transgender girl in a "frenzied and ferocious" knife attack.
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Mumbai Man Gets Death Penalty In 2017 Double Murder Case
A sessions court here has convicted and imposed the death penalty on a man for killing an old woman and a two-year-old girl in 2017 by setting them on fire, noting the case falls under the "rarest of rare" category.
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CBI Secures Rare Conviction In Medical Student's Abetment To Suicide Case
CBI has secured a conviction in an 'abetment to suicide' case after a court in Puducherry sentenced a man, Pradeep to five years' rigorous imprisonment over the 2012 death by suicide of Priyadarshini, a MBBS student.
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Congress Protests Highlights: Trinamool Joins Opposition Meet At Congress Chief's Office
In a rare feat of Opposition unity, the Trinamool Congress, which said it will remain equidistant from the BJP and the Congress, today joined the big strategy meeting in the office of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge.
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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Ally Found Guilty In Extortion Case
A cabinet minister in crisis-hit Sri Lanka was convicted on Monday of extorting money from a businessman over a land deal, a rare guilty verdict in a graft case in the South Asian country.
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They Deserve It: Ex-High Court Judges On Death Penalty To Nirbhaya Convicts
Former judges of the Delhi High Court on Thursday backed the death penalty for the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case asserting that it was a rarest of the rare case and the "brutality" committed by them on December 16, 2012 deserved the extreme punishment.
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"Nirbhaya Convicts Trying Patience Of Nation": Centre To High Court
The four convicts in the Nirbhaya case are "trying the patience of the nation," the centre told the Delhi High Court today, challenging the trial court's order staying their execution. The court, which was giving a rare Sunday hearing to the matter, has reserved its order.
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French Bishop Accused Of Sex Abuse Cover-Up Should Be Presumed Innocent: Pope Francis
Making rare remarks about a high-profile abuse case, Pope Francis on Sunday said it was "important" that a French cardinal who had been convicted of covering up abuse be presumed innocent while he appeals his case.
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Father-Daughter Duo In CBI's All-Sikh Team That Fought Sajjan Kumar Case
The Delhi High Court verdict that overturned the trial court's acquittal of Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case was a rare moment of success for the Central Bureau of Investigation.
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US Man Convicted Of Double Murder Put To Death In Electric Chair
A Tennessee man convicted of a double murder was put to death Thursday in the electric chair, after insisting on the rarely used method rather than lethal injection.
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US Ex-Cop Gets 15 Years In Fatal Shooting Of Black Teen
A white Texas ex-police officer was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the shooting death of a black teen, a rare case of a US officer convicted for using deadly force.
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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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Qatar Upholds Rare Death Sentence In UK Teacher's Murder
A Doha court on Sunday upheld the death penalty in the retrial of a Qatari man convicted of murdering a 24-year-old British female teacher.
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Man In Britain Convicted For Killing Rare Butterflies
A British man has been convicted of capturing and killing two of Britain's rarest butterflies, the endangered Large Blues, which have been a prized collector's item since the Victorian era.
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President Commutes Death Sentence Of 4 Convicted For Mass Murder In Bihar
In a rare gesture, President Pranab Mukherjee has set aside Union Home Ministry's recommendation to reject mercy petitions of four persons convicted of killing of 34 upper caste people in Bihar and commuted their death sentences to life term.
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UK Teens Watched Murder Videos On "Dark Web" Before Stabbing Trans Girl
A UK judge on Friday took the rare step of lifting a ban on identifying two juveniles in court after they were convicted of murdering a 16-year-old transgender girl in a "frenzied and ferocious" knife attack.
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Mumbai Man Gets Death Penalty In 2017 Double Murder Case
A sessions court here has convicted and imposed the death penalty on a man for killing an old woman and a two-year-old girl in 2017 by setting them on fire, noting the case falls under the "rarest of rare" category.
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CBI Secures Rare Conviction In Medical Student's Abetment To Suicide Case
CBI has secured a conviction in an 'abetment to suicide' case after a court in Puducherry sentenced a man, Pradeep to five years' rigorous imprisonment over the 2012 death by suicide of Priyadarshini, a MBBS student.
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Congress Protests Highlights: Trinamool Joins Opposition Meet At Congress Chief's Office
In a rare feat of Opposition unity, the Trinamool Congress, which said it will remain equidistant from the BJP and the Congress, today joined the big strategy meeting in the office of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge.
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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Ally Found Guilty In Extortion Case
A cabinet minister in crisis-hit Sri Lanka was convicted on Monday of extorting money from a businessman over a land deal, a rare guilty verdict in a graft case in the South Asian country.
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They Deserve It: Ex-High Court Judges On Death Penalty To Nirbhaya Convicts
Former judges of the Delhi High Court on Thursday backed the death penalty for the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case asserting that it was a rarest of the rare case and the "brutality" committed by them on December 16, 2012 deserved the extreme punishment.
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"Nirbhaya Convicts Trying Patience Of Nation": Centre To High Court
The four convicts in the Nirbhaya case are "trying the patience of the nation," the centre told the Delhi High Court today, challenging the trial court's order staying their execution. The court, which was giving a rare Sunday hearing to the matter, has reserved its order.
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French Bishop Accused Of Sex Abuse Cover-Up Should Be Presumed Innocent: Pope Francis
Making rare remarks about a high-profile abuse case, Pope Francis on Sunday said it was "important" that a French cardinal who had been convicted of covering up abuse be presumed innocent while he appeals his case.
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Father-Daughter Duo In CBI's All-Sikh Team That Fought Sajjan Kumar Case
The Delhi High Court verdict that overturned the trial court's acquittal of Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case was a rare moment of success for the Central Bureau of Investigation.
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US Man Convicted Of Double Murder Put To Death In Electric Chair
A Tennessee man convicted of a double murder was put to death Thursday in the electric chair, after insisting on the rarely used method rather than lethal injection.
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US Ex-Cop Gets 15 Years In Fatal Shooting Of Black Teen
A white Texas ex-police officer was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the shooting death of a black teen, a rare case of a US officer convicted for using deadly force.
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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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Qatar Upholds Rare Death Sentence In UK Teacher's Murder
A Doha court on Sunday upheld the death penalty in the retrial of a Qatari man convicted of murdering a 24-year-old British female teacher.
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Man In Britain Convicted For Killing Rare Butterflies
A British man has been convicted of capturing and killing two of Britain's rarest butterflies, the endangered Large Blues, which have been a prized collector's item since the Victorian era.
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President Commutes Death Sentence Of 4 Convicted For Mass Murder In Bihar
In a rare gesture, President Pranab Mukherjee has set aside Union Home Ministry's recommendation to reject mercy petitions of four persons convicted of killing of 34 upper caste people in Bihar and commuted their death sentences to life term.
