Life Imprisonment

Delhi High Court Gives 4-Week Parole To 1984 Riots Convict To File Appeal

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday July 19, 2019

The Delhi High Court Thursday granted four weeks' parole to Balwan Khokhar who, along with former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, was sentenced to life imprisonment in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

Druglord ''El Chapo'' Awaits Life Imprisonment Sentence By US Judge

World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday July 17, 2019

After a run as one of the world's most powerful and notorious criminals, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is expected to be sentenced to life in prison when he appears in a New York courtroom on Wednesday.

Ex-Gujarat BJP Lawmaker Given Life Sentence For RTI Activist's Murder

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday July 11, 2019

A Special CBI Court in Gujarat's Ahmedabad on Thursday sentenced former BJP lawmaker Dinu Bogha Solanki from Gujarat's Saurashtra and six others to life imprisonment for the murder of RTI activist Amit Jethwa in July 2010.

Life Term As Maximum Punishment For Mob Killings, Proposes UP Law Panel

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday July 11, 2019

Taking cognisance of incidents of mob lynching, including those by cow vigilantes, the Uttar Pradesh Law Commission has submitted a draft Bill recommending up to life imprisonment for the crime.

Ex-BJP Lawmaker Gets Life For RTI Activist's Murder In Gujarat

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday July 11, 2019

A special CBI court today sentenced former BJP lawmaker Dinu Bogha Solanki and six others to life imprisonment for killing RTI activist Amit Jethwa in 2010 after he tried to expose illegal mining activities in the Gir forest region in Gujarat.

UP Man Who Killed Wife For Not Being Able To Give Birth Gets Life In Jail

Muzaffarnagar News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday July 10, 2019

A court in Muzaffarnagar Wednesday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his wife for not being to give birth.

11 Former Cops Get Life Imprisonment For Killing Jail Inmate In Punjab

Amritsar News | Press Trust of India | Monday July 8, 2019

A court in Amritsar has sentenced 13 people, including 11 former policemen, to life imprisonment in a 2014 kidnapping and murder case of a jail inmate.

Telangana Man Jailed For Life For Unnatural Sex, Killing Minor As A Juvenile

Telangana News | Press Trust of India | Friday June 28, 2019

For the first time in the country, a court in Hyderabad on Thursday sentenced a 19-year-old man to rigorous life imprisonment for having unnatural sex with a minor boy and murdering him two years ago as a juvenile.

Bengal Officials Taking "Cut Money" May Now Be Jailed For Life: Report

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday June 26, 2019

Elected public representatives and government officials in West Bengal who accept "cut money" from beneficiaries of welfare schemes will now be charged under a tough law that provides for life imprisonment in the event of conviction, sources in the chief minister's office said on Tuesday.

Ex-Gujarat Top Cop Sanjiv Bhatt Sentenced To Life In Custodial Death Case

India News | Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Thursday June 20, 2019

Sacked Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who took on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Gujarat riots, was sentenced to life imprisonment today in a 30-year-old case of custodial death.

4 Get Life Term, One Acquitted In 2005 Ayodhya Terror Attack Case

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Stela Dey | Tuesday June 18, 2019

Fourteen years after a terror attack in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya, a special court in Prayagraj has today sentenced four of the accused to life imprisonment and acquitted one. Two civilians had died in a cross fire that followed the attack.

Undertrial In Delhi Jail Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murdering Inmate

Delhi News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday June 12, 2019

A 23-year old undertrial in Rohini jail has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court for the murder of an inmate.

Conviction In Kathua Rape Case Will Act As Deterrent, Says Mayawati

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday June 11, 2019

BSP chief Mayawati today said the conviction in the Kathua gang rape-murder case will serve as a deterrent and prevent people from committing such heinous crimes. A court on Monday sentenced three men, including a temple caretaker, to life imprisonment for the gang-rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir shortly after c...

Jharkhand: 11 Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For Rape

Cities | Press Trust of India | Monday June 10, 2019

A local court Monday sentenced 11 persons to life imprisonment for raping a 19-year-old woman in Dumka district of Jharkhand in 2017.

Kathua Rape-Murder Highlights: 3 Guilty Sentenced To Life Imprisonment

India News | Edited by Niharika Banerjee | Monday June 10, 2019

A court on Monday sentenced three men to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district last year, a lawyer for the defence said, in a case that sparked outrage across the country. Three other men also convicted in the case were given a five-year prison sentence, lawyer Vinod Mahajan told ...