Kolkata: A 30-year-old man convicted by Alipore court for rape of his neighbour–a 18-year-old hearing and speech impaired woman–was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 2 lakh.The District Legal Service Authority (DLSA) South 24 Parganas was also directed to provide adequate compensation for rehabilitation to the victim.The case dates back…
Kendrapada: The additional district judge-cum-special judge (Pocso), Jajpur, Abhilash Senapati sentenced a 60-year-old private tuition teacher to 20 years of imprisonment on Tuesday for raping a 16-year-old girl on July 29, 2020, when she was alone in her house. He used to go to her home to teach her. The girl was a Class X…
A rapist who fled the UK after being mistakenly released from prison has claimed he warned prison staff that he was not supposed to be freed before leaving the country.Bernadin Dedic, 48, was being held on remand while awaiting trial on allegations that he repeatedly raped a woman at knifepoint when an administrative error led…
The latest episode of Post Mortem examines the legal trajectories of two convicted godmen, Asaram Bapu and Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. The Rajasthan High Court delivered a split verdict on Asaram, upholding his life imprisonment for rape under the IPC, sexual exploitation under the POCSO Act, and violations of the Juvenile Justice Act. The court…
Convicted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was granted parole once again on Tuesday and released from Haryana’s Sunaria jail for 30 days, officials said. Ram Rahim left the jail in Rohtak at around 6.30 am under police security and headed towards the Dera headquarters in Sirsa. This is the 16th time since…
Pune: A special court in the city on Saturday convicted and sentenced a private firm employee (34) from Narhe to jail for 20 years for repeatedly raping his neighbour’s 15-year-old daughter between Jan and March 18, 2022, by threatening to kill her parents. The accused has been in jail ever since his arrest in the…
Kendrapada: The additional district judge-cum-special judge (Pocso), Jajpur, sentenced a 27-year-old man to 20 years of imprisonment on Saturday for kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old girl of a village two years ago.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the convict and failure to pay which would increase his sentence by a year….
