Tejpal compared himself to jailed activist Umar Khalid and said he would challenge the judgment in the Supreme Court Panaji: Hours after the Bombay high court convicted him of rape and sentenced him to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment, former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal on Thursday termed the verdict a “political conviction”, compared himself to jailed…
A division bench of Justices Neela Gokhale and Amit Jamsandekar granted Tejpal four weeks to surrender after allowing the state’s appeal against his acquittal Panaji: Thirteen years after the assault, the Bombay high court on Thursday convicted former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal of raping a colleague in a Goa hotel elevator, overturning his 2021 acquittal…
The Bombay high court overturned Tarun Tejpal’s acquittal in a sexual assault case PANAJI: The Bombay high court’s decision to overturn former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal’s 2021 acquittal in the 2013 sexual assault case has brought fresh focus on the evidence, the victim’s testimony and the conduct of the original trial.The Goa bench convicted Tejpal…
Akshinder Singh Sodhi and Amandeep Kumar were convicted under the provisions of the NDPS Act Chandigarh: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Chandigarh Zonal Unit, has secured the conviction of two accused in a drugs case dating back to September 9, 2019.The Special Court Jalandhar on Tuesday convicted Akshinder Singh Sodhi and Amandeep Kumar under the…
Ludhiana: A local court has sentenced a man to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment for attacking a person with acid in Machhiwara Sahib nearly nine years ago. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on the convict.Additional sessions judge (Fast Track Special Court) Aashish Abrol convicted Harvinder Singh of Behlolpur under Section 326-A IPC…
Kanpur: An additional sessions judge’s court on Thursday convicted five persons, including two brothers, for kidnapping a 16-year-old boy in 2008 and selling him to a gang that later demanded ransom from his parents.The court sentenced the five men to 10 years’ imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on each of them.The convicts…
Hosapete (Vijayanagara): The Additional District and Sessions Court in Hosapete has sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh for attempting to murder a government PU college lecturer over an old grudge.The court on Wednesday convicted Prashanth N.M. of Gudekote village in Kudligi taluk for attacking…
Kolkata: Suicide due to dowry-related torture is “not very rare or uncommon”, the Calcutta High Court observed on Monday while reducing a man’s life sentence to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment in connection with the 2014 deaths by suicide of his wife and their minor daughter.The division bench of justices Arijit Banerjee and Apurba Sinha Ray…
Times News NetworkKanpur: The additional district and sessions judge Fast Track Court (FTC-52) on Monday sentenced the husband and his father to 10 years rigorous imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 14,000 on them in a dowry death case.The convicts were identified as Bablu and his father Ram Prasad, residents of Ganesh Nagar under…
