In a decades-old case, the SC is deliberating the fate of a 67-year-old man convicted of a 1979 murder. Hari Shankar Rai, ...

A former Erebus disaster recovery worker and one-time accidental international drug smuggler is still missing this morning ...

John Huffington, a Maryland man who was wrongly imprisoned for 32 years for two murders he didn’t commit, has brought forth a ...

Governor Bose returns Aparajita Bill to Bengal govt after Centre flags 'excessively harsh' rape law amendments.

A Taraba State High Court sitting in Jalingo, the state capital, on Friday sentenced four men to life imprisonment for attempted kidnapping. The convicts, ...

The Centre, in its observation, found that the Aparajita Women and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill has ...

A 39-year-old man, Clifford Ngwenya, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Ermelo Regional Court in Mpumalanga for raping his former landlord in 2021. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) ...

Jordaan was convicted of murdering her boyfriend in a violent domestic dispute, repeating a similar crime from 2011.

Prior to the 2019 amendment, the court noted, Section 6 entailed a minimum punishment of 10 years and a maximum of life ...

Govindachami was in the Kannur jail for the rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman, who was subjected to brutal assault after ...

The aim is to prevent the misuse of Section 111 against political opponents, ideological dissent or social activists and to ...

A convicted murderess from Willowmore, who spent time behind bars for murdering her boyfriend, has been sentenced to life ...