Crime & Justice

CHANDIGARH: A court in Haryanas Hisar town on Tuesday awarded life sentence to self-styled godman Rampal along with 14 others for the murder of six people. He has been in prison since November 2014.

LUCKNOW: A ward boy and a medical student were arrested on Tuesday for raping a nursing student while she was admitted in a Bagpat hospital in Uttar Pradesh, police said.

GURUGRAM: The wife of Additional District and Sessions Judge Krishan Kant, who was shot at by her husband's security guard on Saturday, has died while their teenager son is "brain dead", doctors said on Sunday. But police said the boy too was dead.

NEW DELHI: A 16-year-old class 10 student was on Saturday allegedly gangraped by four persons in east Delhi's Vinod Nagar, police said on Sunday, adding that the accused have been arrested.

NEW DELHI: A 19-year-old Delhi University girl student and her teenaged brother have been arrested for kidnapping a three-year-old son of their landlord in south Delhi to extract a hefty ransom of Rs 5 crore, police said on Friday.

PATNA: A police officer was killed during an encounter with criminals in Bihars Khagaria district, police said on Saturday.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the execution of the death sentence of Sonam, convicted of killing seven members of her family, along with her friend Naveen, at a Rohtak village in Haryana in September 2009.

CHANDIGARH: A 40-year-old NRI, a software engineer, was found dead at a Hotel in Sector 35 this afternoon. The police have ruled out any foul play in the incident.

NEW DELHI: A first-year polytechnic student was arrested on Wednesday by Delhi Police for murdering his parents and sister in a south Delhi locality early on Wednesday. The police said the youth was angry with his family members for repeatedly taunting him for being "useless."

NEW DELHI: A man, his wife and their daughter were found dead with stab wounds in their house here on Wednesday, police said. Their son was severely injured.

PHAGWARA: One Motorcyclist Youth identified as Manbir Singh(18) resident of Village Nasirabad was killed on the spot when his bike he was riding dashed against a tree near the Village on Sunday afternoon.

SRINAGAR:Two party workers of the National Conference (NC) were killed and another critically injured on Friday as militants opened fire in the old city area here, police said.

SRINAGAR / NEW DELHI: A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday searched the residence of a businessman in Srinagar in connection with a terror funding case, officials said.

NEW DELHI: In a shocking case, a 15-year-old boy has been apprehended here for allegedly trying to rape his neighbour -- a Class 3 girl student, police said.

NEW DELHI: A 27-year-old man has been arrested here for allegedly opening fire at a girl who rejected his marriage proposal, police said.

LUCKNOW:  An Uttar Pradesh constable was on Saturday arrested and booked for murder after he shot and killed an young Apple executive from close range, an official said.

NEW DELHI: Activists and lawyers welcomed the Supreme Court's landmark verdict on decriminalising adultery, saying patriarchal control over a women's body was unacceptable.

NEW DELHI: In another landmark judgement, the Supreme Court on Thursday decriminalised adultery after striking down a British era law, Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, terming it as unconstitutional, archaic and manifestly arbitrary, with one judge saying women can't be treated as "chattel".

NEW DELHI:  The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, an adultery law dating to the British era, terming it unconstitutional, archaic and manifestly arbitrary, with one judge saying women can't be treated as "cattle".

ROPAR: The Roparr Police has registered a case of attempt to murder under sections 307 of IPC against three accused for the murderous attack on All India Shiv Sena(Hindu) president Nisdhant Sharma who was stabbed in the Rupnagar district jail today morning.