criminal law

NRI Jailed For 21 Years For Killing Sons In Scotland 22 Jan 2009, 1045 hrs IST, PTI LONDON: An Indian-origin man who murdered his two children before trying to set their bodies afire last year, has been sentenced to at least 21 years in jail. Ashok Kalyanjee, 46, slit the throats of sons Paul (6) and Jay (2) in his car at a beauty spot in the Campsie Fells, and then tried to tor..

CBI Wants Time To Probe '84 Anti-Sikh Riots Case 22 Jan 2009, 1529 hrs IST, Smriti Singh, TNN NEW DELHI: The CBI on Thursday sought 30-days’ time to file its final status report in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case involving Jagdish Tytler. Submitting a status report in a sealed cover before Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Rakesh Pandit, the agency said investigation in the case is..

HC Questions Police Why No Inquiry Was Held In Jamia Encounter 22 Jan 2009, 1744 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has sought an explanation from Delhi Police for not initiating a magisterial inquiry into the Jamia Nagar encounter, despite NHRC guidelines to do so. "NHRC has been asking from the day one for compliance with the guidelines (for magisterial inquiry). T..

Uttering To Oneself Or Someone Can Be Termed As Confession: SC 22 Jan 2009, 2115 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has observed that in extra-judicial confessions a written note by an accused or even a casual statement uttered by him to himself and overheard by a third person can be the basis for his conviction. "An accused might have been over-heard uttering to himself..

Satyam Fudged FDs, Has 40,000 Employees: Public Prosecutor 22 Jan 2009, 1258 hrs IST, TIMESOFINDIA.COM NEW DELHI: The pubic prosecutor in the Satyam case on Thursday said the company had fudged its fixed deposit documents. He said the company was diverting Rs 20 crore monthly. Former chief B Ramalinga Raju diverted Rs 7,400 crore in the name of this mother and brother, the public..

MUMBAI HC PENALISES TOP COP IN SURETY CASE 22 Jan 2009, 0755 hrs IST, TNN MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday ordered an assistant commissioner of police to shell out Rs 10,000 as fine for asking a person to obtain surety from a sitting corporator in a chapter proceedings case. Hearing a group of four such cases, a division bench of justices Bilal Nazki and Anoop Mohta issued..

50 Chinese Youths Abducted In Myanmar 21 Jan 2009, 1639 hrs IST, PTI BEIJING: At least 50 teenagers from China are being held for ransom in a lawless area of Myanmar, state media reported on Wednesday. The boys, from northern China's Shanxi province, have been threatened with torture if their parents fail to meet the kidnappers' ransom demands, the official China Daily reported. ..

China Sentences Two To Death Over Tainted Milk 22 Jan 2009, 1259 hrs IST, REUTERS BEIJING: A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced two men to death for their role in the production and sale of melamine-tainted milk that killed at least six children and made nearly 300,000 ill. The severity of the punishments handed down in the closed-door but closely watched trial appeared to be a..

Cop Penalized For Inaction In Suicide Case 22 Jan 2009, 0535 hrs IST, TNN BEGUSARAI: In a belated move, Khagaria SP Kamal Kishore Singh on Wednesday ordered departmental proceedings against SI Ajit Bihari, investigating officer of the case pertaining to the suicide of a 17-year-old eve-teasing victim in Bihar’s Begusarai district last week, for his inept handling of the case. ..

IRAN HANGS 10MURDERERS IN MASS EXECUTION 22 Jan 2009, 1233 hrs IST, AFP TEHRAN: Iran has hanged 10 men convicted of murder in a mass execution in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, the government Iran newspaper reported on Thursday. The executions of the men, aged between 21 and 42, were carried out Wednesday morning, the report said. Iran also hanged 12 other men on Wednesday an..

Chinese Court To Sentence 21 In Milk Scandal 22 Jan 2009, 0930 hrs IST, AP SHIJIAZHUANG (China): The former boss of the dairy company at the centre of China's contaminated milk scandal and 20 other people awaited sentencing today for the production and sale of melamine-tainted products. Tian Wenhua, who was general manager and chairwoman of Sanlu Group Co., has pleaded guilty to c..

SC Cancels Bbail Of Accused In British Journalist Rape Case 1/22/2009 Taking serious view the rape of the British journalist in Udaipur, Rajasthan, the Supreme Court cancelled the bail of the guest house owner sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial court. A bench comprising Justice Markandey Katju and VS Sirpurkar, however, requested the Rajasthan High Court to dispose of the appeal ..

DDA scam: Delhi Police Notice To General Category Allottees 1/22/2009 The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Delhi Police issued notices to 3600 successful applicants in the general category in connection with the DDA housing scam. The EOW, in the notices, has asked for original documents the copies of which were submitted along with the application form. The EOW has also asked the ..

Allahabad HC Orders UP Govt Tto Pproduce Manoj Gupta Murder Case Diary 22/1/2009 The Allahabad High Court ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to present on January 23 the PWD engineer Manoj Gupta murder case diary. A division bench comprising Justice Amar Sareen and RN Mishra passed the order on a writ petition filed by prime accused--Vibha Tiwari --wife of Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Shekh..

194 DOWRY DEATHS IN TAMIL NADU IN 2008 22 Jan 2009, 0306 hrs IST, TNN CHENNAI: Forty seven years after the demand for dowry was made illegal in the country, Tamil Nadu registered 194 cases of dowry deaths in 2008, according to data collected from the state crime records bureau (SCRB). While proof in the form of charred or partially burnt bodies was available for 57 of these cases, a..