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"Ejaculating Without Penetration Isn't Rape": Chhattisgarh High Court
The Chhattisgarh High Court has reduced the sentence of the accused from seven years to three and a half years after medical evidence indicated that the survivor's hymen was intact.
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Mumbai Court Cuts Rape Convict's Life Term, Cites Essay On Mahatma Gandhi
The Bombay High Court has reduced the life sentence of a man, convicted for raping a minor girl, to 12 years, taking note of his young age, long incarceration and reformative efforts in prison.
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Indonesian Sharia Court Publicly Flogs Two Men For Gay Sex As Crowd Films Torture
Each man received 76 lashes, a sentence reduced from 80 due to time already spent in detention.
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Indonesia Court Sentences 2 Men To Public Caning For Kissing, Hugging
An Islamic court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, after Islamic religious police caught them engaged in what the court deemed were sexual acts: hugging and kissing.
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Vietnam Tycoon's Jail Term Reduced To 7 Years In $146 Million Fraud Case
A Vietnamese appeal court on Thursday slashed a former property and aviation tycoon's jail sentence in a $146 million fraud and stock market manipulation case from 21 years to seven.
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Supreme Court Refuses To Reduce Lawyer's Sentence For Abusing Woman Judge, Says...
The Supreme Court today rejected a petition by a lawyer convicted of abusing a woman judicial officer in a court in Delhi.
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Menendez Brothers, Jailed For Killing Parents, Resentenced
Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have spent more than three decades behind bars for the grisly shotgun murders of their parents in the family's luxury Beverly Hills home, could soon walk free after a judge on Tuesday reduced their life sentences.
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40 Years On, Life Term Of 3 Convicts In 'Murder' Over Mangoes Cut To 7 Years
Forty years after three men were booked for murder following a trivial fight among children over mangoes in an Uttar Pradesh village, the Supreme Court has come to their rescue by reducing the life sentence to a seven-year jail term.
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Court Allows Gangster Abu Salem's Reduced Term Petition In 1993 Blasts Case
A special court in Mumbai on Saturday allowed an application of gangster Abu Salem, serving life sentence in the the 1993 serial blasts case, for reduced jail term in lieu of the detention period during trial.
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Paying Compensation To Victim Cannot Be Ground To Reduce Sentence: Supreme Court
If payment of compensation becomes a consideration for reducing a sentence, it will have a "catastrophic" effect on the criminal justice administration, the Supreme Court has said.
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"Ejaculating Without Penetration Isn't Rape": Chhattisgarh High Court
The Chhattisgarh High Court has reduced the sentence of the accused from seven years to three and a half years after medical evidence indicated that the survivor's hymen was intact.
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Mumbai Court Cuts Rape Convict's Life Term, Cites Essay On Mahatma Gandhi
The Bombay High Court has reduced the life sentence of a man, convicted for raping a minor girl, to 12 years, taking note of his young age, long incarceration and reformative efforts in prison.
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Indonesian Sharia Court Publicly Flogs Two Men For Gay Sex As Crowd Films Torture
Each man received 76 lashes, a sentence reduced from 80 due to time already spent in detention.
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Indonesia Court Sentences 2 Men To Public Caning For Kissing, Hugging
An Islamic court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, after Islamic religious police caught them engaged in what the court deemed were sexual acts: hugging and kissing.
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Vietnam Tycoon's Jail Term Reduced To 7 Years In $146 Million Fraud Case
A Vietnamese appeal court on Thursday slashed a former property and aviation tycoon's jail sentence in a $146 million fraud and stock market manipulation case from 21 years to seven.
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Supreme Court Refuses To Reduce Lawyer's Sentence For Abusing Woman Judge, Says...
The Supreme Court today rejected a petition by a lawyer convicted of abusing a woman judicial officer in a court in Delhi.
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Menendez Brothers, Jailed For Killing Parents, Resentenced
Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have spent more than three decades behind bars for the grisly shotgun murders of their parents in the family's luxury Beverly Hills home, could soon walk free after a judge on Tuesday reduced their life sentences.
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40 Years On, Life Term Of 3 Convicts In 'Murder' Over Mangoes Cut To 7 Years
Forty years after three men were booked for murder following a trivial fight among children over mangoes in an Uttar Pradesh village, the Supreme Court has come to their rescue by reducing the life sentence to a seven-year jail term.
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Court Allows Gangster Abu Salem's Reduced Term Petition In 1993 Blasts Case
A special court in Mumbai on Saturday allowed an application of gangster Abu Salem, serving life sentence in the the 1993 serial blasts case, for reduced jail term in lieu of the detention period during trial.
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Paying Compensation To Victim Cannot Be Ground To Reduce Sentence: Supreme Court
If payment of compensation becomes a consideration for reducing a sentence, it will have a "catastrophic" effect on the criminal justice administration, the Supreme Court has said.
