Patiala Murder

A wanted criminal was injured during a police encounter in Patiala on Saturday evening, the seventh such police action in Punjab in the last 10 days. Malkit Chitta, who was shot in the leg, was wanted in six murder cases.

Delhi Police on Wednesday got a recorded statement of three jail inmates in the Tillu Tajpuria murder case before Patiala House Court.

Barely 24 hours before the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case are to be executed, a drama played out outside Delhi's Patiala House court today as the wife of one of the convicts threatened to kill herself. Akshay Singh and three others, found guilty of the horrific rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student eight years ago, will be hanged...

The four convicts, who got death penalty for the gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi - dubbed Nirbhaya - more than seven years ago, will be hanged on March 20, at 5:30 am. This is the fourth death warrant issued by a Delhi court.

In deeply distressing and emotional scenes outside Delhi's Patiala House Court this evening Nirbhaya's mother, Asha Devi broke down and cried after the execution of the four men convicted in the 2012 gangrape, torture and murder of her 23-year-old daughter was postponed for a second time

A high-security jail in Punjab witnessed the wedding of a murder convict with his finance on Wednesday. Authorities at Nabha maximum security jail also arranged a priest to solemnise the wedding of Mandeep Singh, who is serving a life sentence in a double murder case. This is the first time a marriage ceremony was organised inside the high security...

The parents of 'Nirbhaya', the 23-year-old paramedic student who was gang-raped and murdered in December 2012, has requested a Delhi court to fast-track the procedure to hang all four convicts Delhi's Patiala House Court will hear the petition on March 2.

Congress leader Sajjan Kumar was identified as an accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots by a witness at Delhi's Patiala House Court today, news agency PTI has reported. He and two others are facing trial on charges of murder and rioting during the clashes that broke out in the wake of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination by her Sikh body...

A 38-year-old woman and her lover were arrested for allegedly killing her 17-year-old son, the police said on Thursday.

Punjab police hasclaimed to have arrested the main accused allegedly involved in the petrol pump loot and double murder incident that took place in Patiala.

A 100-year-old woman was found murdered in her fields on Monday at a village near Punjab's Patiala. Her family alleges that she was raped before being killed.

The two Italian marines who are charged with murder will be tried by a special court in Delhi . A formal notification will be issued by the central government for a Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court to handle the case with daily hearings. Italy has been urging India to conduct the trial quickly. If convicted, the marines can serve their senten...

Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal on Monday asked its mayor in Patiala to resign after he was named in a murder case.

The Mayor of Punjab's Patiala city and his son were on Saturday booked for the mysterious death of his daughter-in-law, 30-year-old Parampreet Kaur. The woman's body was found in the home of Mayor and Shironami Akali Dal (SAD) leader Jaspal Singh Pradhan and has strangulation marks, police said.

Senior Punjab minister Bibi Jagir Kaur has been arrested and sent to jail after being held guilty of conspiracy in the mysterious death of her daughter in April 2000. However, the court dropped murder charges against her. A court in Patiala on Friday sentenced Jagir Kaur, minister for rural water supply and sanitation and defence services, to five ...

A wanted criminal was injured during a police encounter in Patiala on Saturday evening, the seventh such police action in Punjab in the last 10 days. Malkit Chitta, who was shot in the leg, was wanted in six murder cases.

Delhi Police on Wednesday got a recorded statement of three jail inmates in the Tillu Tajpuria murder case before Patiala House Court.

Barely 24 hours before the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case are to be executed, a drama played out outside Delhi's Patiala House court today as the wife of one of the convicts threatened to kill herself. Akshay Singh and three others, found guilty of the horrific rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student eight years ago, will be hanged...

The four convicts, who got death penalty for the gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi - dubbed Nirbhaya - more than seven years ago, will be hanged on March 20, at 5:30 am. This is the fourth death warrant issued by a Delhi court.

In deeply distressing and emotional scenes outside Delhi's Patiala House Court this evening Nirbhaya's mother, Asha Devi broke down and cried after the execution of the four men convicted in the 2012 gangrape, torture and murder of her 23-year-old daughter was postponed for a second time

A high-security jail in Punjab witnessed the wedding of a murder convict with his finance on Wednesday. Authorities at Nabha maximum security jail also arranged a priest to solemnise the wedding of Mandeep Singh, who is serving a life sentence in a double murder case. This is the first time a marriage ceremony was organised inside the high security...

The parents of 'Nirbhaya', the 23-year-old paramedic student who was gang-raped and murdered in December 2012, has requested a Delhi court to fast-track the procedure to hang all four convicts Delhi's Patiala House Court will hear the petition on March 2.

Congress leader Sajjan Kumar was identified as an accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots by a witness at Delhi's Patiala House Court today, news agency PTI has reported. He and two others are facing trial on charges of murder and rioting during the clashes that broke out in the wake of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination by her Sikh body...

A 38-year-old woman and her lover were arrested for allegedly killing her 17-year-old son, the police said on Thursday.

Punjab police hasclaimed to have arrested the main accused allegedly involved in the petrol pump loot and double murder incident that took place in Patiala.

A 100-year-old woman was found murdered in her fields on Monday at a village near Punjab's Patiala. Her family alleges that she was raped before being killed.

The two Italian marines who are charged with murder will be tried by a special court in Delhi . A formal notification will be issued by the central government for a Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court to handle the case with daily hearings. Italy has been urging India to conduct the trial quickly. If convicted, the marines can serve their senten...

Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal on Monday asked its mayor in Patiala to resign after he was named in a murder case.

The Mayor of Punjab's Patiala city and his son were on Saturday booked for the mysterious death of his daughter-in-law, 30-year-old Parampreet Kaur. The woman's body was found in the home of Mayor and Shironami Akali Dal (SAD) leader Jaspal Singh Pradhan and has strangulation marks, police said.

Senior Punjab minister Bibi Jagir Kaur has been arrested and sent to jail after being held guilty of conspiracy in the mysterious death of her daughter in April 2000. However, the court dropped murder charges against her. A court in Patiala on Friday sentenced Jagir Kaur, minister for rural water supply and sanitation and defence services, to five ...