Articles for Court Sentences

Ggm court sentences 2 to 20 yrs for kidnapping, raping minor girl
1 month ago

Ggm court sentences 2 to 20 yrs for kidnapping, raping minor girl

Hindustan Times  

A city court sentenced 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment to two persons along with an overall fine of ₹ 2.5 lakh for kidnapping and raping a then 15-year-old girl more than three years ago, police said on Friday. Gavel for judge, law and order Sunil Kumar Parmar, special public prosecutor, said the convicts, aged 24 and 26, were found guilty under …

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Convict Dies of Illness After Life Sentence in Marakumbi Riot Case
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Convict Dies of Illness After Life Sentence in Marakumbi Riot Case

Hindustan Times  

A convict in the Marakumbi riot case died of illness shortly after receiving a life sentence along with 97 others for their roles in the communal violence that took place at Gangavati taluk in Koppal district in 2014. The deceased was identified as 44-year-old Ramappa Bhovi from Marakumbi and was in the Koppal district jail.

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Russian court sentences a 72-year-old American to nearly 7 years in prison for fighting in Ukraine
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Russian court sentences a 72-year-old American to nearly 7 years in prison for fighting in Ukraine

The Hindu  

A Russian court on Monday sentenced a 72-year-old American in a closed trial to nearly seven years in prison for allegedly fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine. Prosecutors said Stephen Hubbard signed a contract with the Ukrainian military after Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022 and he fought alongside them until being captured two months later. The charges …

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Law should be changed after Huw Edwards's 'lenient' sentence, says victim's commissioner after it emerged outcome of disgraced newsman's case cannot be reviewed
3 months ago

Law should be changed after Huw Edwards's 'lenient' sentence, says victim's commissioner after it emerged outcome of disgraced newsman's case cannot be reviewed

Daily Mail  

The victim's commissioner has joined mounting calls for the law to be changed after it emerged the outcome of Huw Edwards's case cannot be reviewed. Huw Edwards received a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, on Monday after he admitted possessing indecent images of children Claire Waxman, London's victims' commissioner, has said that the rules for reviewing 'unduly lenient' …

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Ten Cambodian environmental activists receive prison sentences of 6-8 years each
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Ten Cambodian environmental activists receive prison sentences of 6-8 years each

Associated Press  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Ten members of a Cambodian environmental activist group that campaigned against destructive infrastructure projects and alleged corruption were each sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison on charges of conspiring against the state. The Cambodian human rights group Licadho called the verdict “very disappointing.” “Today, the court has ruled that youth activists fighting for environmental …

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Fake Birth Certificate Case | UP Court Sentences SP Leader Azam Khan, Wife, Son Abdullah To 7-Year Imprisonment
1 year, 2 months ago

Fake Birth Certificate Case | UP Court Sentences SP Leader Azam Khan, Wife, Son Abdullah To 7-Year Imprisonment

Live Law  

Samajwadi Party leader Mohammed Azam Khan, wife Tazeen Fatima and son Abdullah Azam Khan have been found guilty by a Court in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district in the fake birth certificate case. They have been sentenced to seven-seven years of imprisonment.An MP/MLA Court presided over by Magistrate Shobit Bansal convicted them under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of …

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Dutch court sentences Pakistani ex-cricketer who threatened Geert Wilders
1 year, 3 months ago

Dutch court sentences Pakistani ex-cricketer who threatened Geert Wilders

Al Jazeera  

Khalid Latif posted a video in 2018 offering three million rupees for the death of the far-right Islamophobe. A Dutch court has sentenced a former Pakistani cricketer to 12 years for urging people to murder Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders. The Dutch court proved that Latif posted a video in 2018 in which he offered a three million rupees reward …

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Libyan court sentences 23 suspected Islamic State militants to death
1 year, 6 months ago

Libyan court sentences 23 suspected Islamic State militants to death

Associated Press  

CAIRO — A Libyan court Monday sentenced 23 suspected Islamic State group militants to death for launching deadly attacks that killed dozens of people, including Egyptian Coptic Christians. The appeals court in the western city of Misrata also sentenced 14 other militants to life in prison who were convicted on the same charges, which include destruction of police facilities and …

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Myanmar Supreme Court agrees to hear some Suu Kyi appeals
1 year, 8 months ago

Myanmar Supreme Court agrees to hear some Suu Kyi appeals

Associated Press  

BANGKOK — Myanmar’s Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to hear appeals of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s convictions and requests for reduced sentences in several cases in which she was charged with corruption, election fraud and violating the official secrets act, a legal official said. A legal official familiar with Suu Kyi’s court cases said the Supreme Court has …

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UP: Muzaffarnagar Court Sentences Man to Death for Rape, Murder of Three-year-old Girl
1 year, 10 months ago

UP: Muzaffarnagar Court Sentences Man to Death for Rape, Murder of Three-year-old Girl

News 18  

A court here on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a three-year-old girl in June last year and awarded life imprisonment to another for abducting the minor. Terming it a “rarest of rare” case, special POCSO court judge Baburam ordered that Soni alias Surender be hanged till death. District government counsel Rajiv Sharma and special POCSO …

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Iran sentences five to death over killing of paramilitary member
2 years ago

Iran sentences five to death over killing of paramilitary member

Al Jazeera  

Eleven others received lengthy prison sentences after being charged with the killing of a Basij troop amid ongoing anti-government protests. Authorities in Iran have sentenced five people to death for allegedly killing a member of a paramilitary force affiliated with the country’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, state media reported, while 11 others received lengthy prison sentences. The 16 unidentified …

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Maryland court rules DC-area sniper to be resentenced
2 years, 3 months ago

Maryland court rules DC-area sniper to be resentenced

Associated Press  

— Maryland’s highest court has ruled that Washington, D.C.-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo must be resentenced, because of U.S. Supreme Court decisions relating to constitutional protections for juveniles made after Malvo was sentenced to six life sentences without the possibility of parole In its 4-3 ruling, however, the Maryland Court of Appeals said it’s very unlikely Malvo would ever be …

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Moroccan court sentences 33 migrants to jail over crossing
2 years, 5 months ago

Moroccan court sentences 33 migrants to jail over crossing

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nearly three dozen migrants were …

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Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini face 20-month suspended jail sentences
2 years, 6 months ago

Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini face 20-month suspended jail sentences

The Hindu  

Prosecutors in the fraud trial of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and vice president Michel Platini asked on Wednesday for both men to get 20-month suspended prison sentences. Blatter and his longtime right-hand man, former FIFA secretary general Jérôme Valcke, are now formal suspects in an investigation of alleged mismanagement relating to the FIFA World Football Museum project in central …

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Maryland court hears case seeking new sentence for DC sniper
2 years, 10 months ago

Maryland court hears case seeking new sentence for DC sniper

Associated Press  

— Maryland’s highest court heard arguments Tuesday on whether Washington, D.C., sniper Lee Boyd Malvo’s six life sentences without possibility of parole should be reconsidered because of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision barring mandatory life sentences for juveniles. Kiran Iyer, a Maryland public defender, argued that life without parole sentences for Malvo, who was 17 at the time of …

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Sentences Can Be Made Concurrent Only If Offences Arise Out Of A Single Transaction : Karnataka High Court
3 years, 8 months ago

Sentences Can Be Made Concurrent Only If Offences Arise Out Of A Single Transaction : Karnataka High Court

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court has held that only substantive sentences can be made as concurrent if it is of a single transaction. A single bench of Justice H P Sandesh while dismissing a petition said "I would like to make it clear that the default sentences cannot be made as concurrent and the same should run consecutively in respect of …

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Cambodian court sentences opposition leaders in absentia
3 years, 9 months ago

Cambodian court sentences opposition leaders in absentia

Associated Press  

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A Cambodian court has convicted and sentenced the exiled leader and eight senior members of the country’s banned opposition party to more than 20 years in prison, effectively barring them from ever returning home. CNRP leader Sam Rainsy, who was sentenced to 25 years, said the court acted at the behest of Prime Minister Hun Sen. …

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Lai Xiaomin: China sentences former Huarong chairman to death for bribery
3 years, 11 months ago

Lai Xiaomin: China sentences former Huarong chairman to death for bribery

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN Business — A Chinese court has sentenced the former chairman of a huge state-owned financial company to death after finding him guilty of bribery. Lai Xiaomin —who used to chair China Huarong Asset Management — was guilty of taking or seeking bribes totaling nearly 1.8 billion yuan, a court in the port city of Tianjin said on …

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Venezuelan court sentences six former Citgo executives to prison
4 years ago

Venezuelan court sentences six former Citgo executives to prison

Al Jazeera  

The six have denied wrongdoing and a lawyer on their defence team said they planned to appeal. A Venezuelan court sentenced six former executives of United States refiner Citgo to prison after finding them guilty of corruption on Thursday. The former president of the company, Jose Pereira, was fined $2m and sentenced to 13 years and seven months in jail, …

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Turkish court issues life sentences in trial of 2016 coup leaders
4 years ago

Turkish court issues life sentences in trial of 2016 coup leaders

Hindustan Times  

A Turkish court handed down dozens of life sentences on Thursday for some of the nearly 500 defendants, including army commanders and pilots, accused of leading a 2016 coup attempt from an air base near the capital Ankara. The trial was the highest profile of dozens of court cases targeting thousands of people accused of involvement in the coup attempt, …

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