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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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Cancer Meds Get Cheaper: GST Council Slashes Tax On 33 Lifesaving Drugs
In what seems like a major public health push, the GST Council has cut GST on medicines, including 33 lifesaving drugs and 3 cancer/rare-disease medicines, to nil, and reduced GST on most other medicines and medical devices.
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Public Anger Wins, Delhi Government Says Won't Scrap Old Cars And Bikes
The Delhi government has rolled back a contentious order denying fuel to 'end of life' cars - the term for petrol vehicles registered over 15 years ago and diesel vehicles more than 10 years.
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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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"He Can Get Me Killed": Ex BJP Leader's Interim Bail Period Reduced
The Delhi High Court Friday modified its order granting interim bail to expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar, serving life term for raping a minor in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao in 2017.
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He Was To Be Hanged For Murder, Rape. He Now Gets Life Term For Killing
A man, who was on death row after being convicted by high court of raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl in Rajasthan over five years ago, has got a reduced sentence of life term from the Supreme Court which acquitted him of the charge of sexually assaulting the minor.
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Nirbhaya's Rapists Will Hang, Top Court Rejects Convicts' Plea: 10 Facts
The men convicted of raping and torturing a medical student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012 will hang, the Supreme Court ruled today, confirming its earlier decision and rejecting the request of three of four convicts for their sentence to be reduced to a life term. The top court was asked to reconsider its own ruling in a review plea; the convict...
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'I Want A Mercy Killing', Convict In Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Appeals To Government
Robert Payas, one of the seven convicts serving a life term for former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, has asked the Tamil Nadu government to kill him. In an appeal to the state, Payas said he did not have any hopes of getting released and appealed for a "mercy killing".
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Delhi High Court Grants Murder Convict Chance To Reform, Reduces Sentence
The Delhi High Court has reduced the life term of a convict, who killed a 25-year-old man, to six years in jail to grant him an opportunity to reform and rehabilitate. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra, which upheld the conviction of the 41-year-old man, showed leniency in his sentence while considering that he ha...
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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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Cancer Meds Get Cheaper: GST Council Slashes Tax On 33 Lifesaving Drugs
In what seems like a major public health push, the GST Council has cut GST on medicines, including 33 lifesaving drugs and 3 cancer/rare-disease medicines, to nil, and reduced GST on most other medicines and medical devices.
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Public Anger Wins, Delhi Government Says Won't Scrap Old Cars And Bikes
The Delhi government has rolled back a contentious order denying fuel to 'end of life' cars - the term for petrol vehicles registered over 15 years ago and diesel vehicles more than 10 years.
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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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"He Can Get Me Killed": Ex BJP Leader's Interim Bail Period Reduced
The Delhi High Court Friday modified its order granting interim bail to expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar, serving life term for raping a minor in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao in 2017.
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He Was To Be Hanged For Murder, Rape. He Now Gets Life Term For Killing
A man, who was on death row after being convicted by high court of raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl in Rajasthan over five years ago, has got a reduced sentence of life term from the Supreme Court which acquitted him of the charge of sexually assaulting the minor.
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Nirbhaya's Rapists Will Hang, Top Court Rejects Convicts' Plea: 10 Facts
The men convicted of raping and torturing a medical student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012 will hang, the Supreme Court ruled today, confirming its earlier decision and rejecting the request of three of four convicts for their sentence to be reduced to a life term. The top court was asked to reconsider its own ruling in a review plea; the convict...
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'I Want A Mercy Killing', Convict In Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Appeals To Government
Robert Payas, one of the seven convicts serving a life term for former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, has asked the Tamil Nadu government to kill him. In an appeal to the state, Payas said he did not have any hopes of getting released and appealed for a "mercy killing".
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Delhi High Court Grants Murder Convict Chance To Reform, Reduces Sentence
The Delhi High Court has reduced the life term of a convict, who killed a 25-year-old man, to six years in jail to grant him an opportunity to reform and rehabilitate. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra, which upheld the conviction of the 41-year-old man, showed leniency in his sentence while considering that he ha...
