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Jagatsinghpur: A Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur awarded death penalty to two convicted in the sensational rape and murder of a minor girl…

Patna: Nine people were sentenced to death and four women were life imprisoned by Additional District and Sessions Judge Luv Kush Kumar of Gopalganj district court in a spurious liquor case…

Mumbai: The Maharashtra cabinet has approved a draft bill called the ‘Shakti Act’ that has provisions for death penalty, life sentence and hefty fines against culprits committing crimes…

Tokyo: A 29-year-old man has pleaded guilty to murdering nine people in Japan after contacting them through Twitter. Dubbed the ‘Twitter killer’, Takahiro Shiraishi confessed in a Tokyo…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the curative petition of two death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, paving the way for their hanging along with…

Bhubaneswar: A Special POSCO court in Surat on Friday sentenced a man from Odisha to death for rape and murder of his daughter. The court issued the death penalty, terming it as rarest of…

Keonjhar: A rape accused allegedly died of a heart attack inside the Keonjhar district jail on Friday morning. The deceased, Turi Munda, was an undertrial prisoner accused of raping a…

Keonjhar: The court of the Additional District Judge (ADJ) on Thursday sentenced Sunil Nayak to death for raping and killing a three-year-old girl in Keonjhar district in 2017. The ADJ…

Cuttack: The Special POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Court, Cuttack on Thursday awarded the death sentence to Mohammad Mushtaq for the rape and murder of a six-year-old…

Jagatsinghpur: A special POCSO court here on Tuesday awarded death penalty to Kalia Mana for the rape and murder of a minor girl at Ersama in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district. According to…