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Home-cooked food, medicine – what's allowed for Chandrababu Naidu in jail
Given the purported threat to his life, arrangements made to accommodate TDP chief in prison
Published on Sep 11, 2023 05:57 AM IST
PTI |
Chandigarh: labourer to spend 5 years in jail for snatching phone
The victim, Mon, who works as a sweeper in Sampark Centre, Sector 43, said when she was going towards District Courts, Sector 43, and reached in front of the main gate of Judicial Academy, one boy snatched her mobile phone
Updated on Sep 06, 2023 12:32 AM IST
Tanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh
Sharad Pawar skewers Bhujbal, says he could have been arrested in Telgi scam
Chhagan Bhujbal, a backward caste leader who rose to be the deputy chief minister in 1999, was investigated in the fake stamp paper case
Updated on Aug 30, 2023 07:19 PM IST
Man gets 20-year jail term for raping Class 7 student
A fast-track court in Fatehabad on Monday sentenced a man for 20 years in jail for raping and sexually harassing a Class 7 girl student last year. Fast-track court special judge Sunil Jindal convicted Surender for 20 years and imposed a fine of ₹65,000 on him.
Updated on Aug 29, 2023 12:53 AM IST
HT Correspondent, Rohtak
Jailed FTX founder Bankman-Fried to return to court for new plea
Founder of FTX exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried, jailed on fraud charges. Pleads not guilty, seeks court time to prepare for trial.
Published on Aug 22, 2023 04:04 PM IST
Reuters |
Chandigarh: Man gets 20-year jail term for sexually assaulting girl
The court has also imposed a fine of ₹30,000 on Mohit, then 21 years old, from Sector 20, Chandigarh. A fast-track POCSO court has awarded 20 years jail to a man for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, whom he met on social media.
Updated on Aug 09, 2023 12:06 AM IST
Tanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh
Pune: Minor kills, robs senior citizen to secure funds for girlfriend’s bail
A 17-year-old boy in Pimpri, India, has been detained for the alleged murder of an 85-year-old woman. Police say he committed the crime to secure money for his girlfriend's bail.
Updated on Aug 08, 2023 07:25 PM IST
YouTuber Manish Kashyap produced before courts in Bettiah
Kashyap has been lodged in a jail in Madurai since his arrest in March this year for allegedly circulating fabricated videos of “attacks on migrant labourers in Tamil Nadu”.
Updated on Aug 07, 2023 10:25 PM IST
Sandeep Bhaskar, Bettiah
Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan arrested after being found guilty in Toshakhana case
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to three years imprisonment and disqualified from politics for five years.
Updated on Aug 05, 2023 02:06 PM IST
ED can interrogate me in prison, Balaji tells SC
Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji on Tuesday that nothing prevented the ED from interrogating him in the hospital during his 15-day remand beginning June 14 while he was hospitalised for bypass surgery
Updated on Aug 02, 2023 12:37 AM IST
Abraham Thomas
Chandigarh: Sub-inspector caught for graft awarded 4-year jail
The cop was arrested in 2015 for accepting ₹15,000 as bribe from a Kaimbwala resident for not registering a case against him
Updated on Jul 29, 2023 03:46 AM IST
Tanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh
‘Kamala only has a race card’, Andrew Tate in interview with Tucker Carlson
Andrew Tate shared his view on American Vice President Kamala Harris, “the only thing she has in favor is the race card” and that she is "largely incompetent".
Published on Jul 12, 2023 12:55 PM IST
Vedanth Shinde
Punjab-origin man smuggles Indians using Uber, gets 3-yr jail in US
Rajinder Pal Singh, alias Jaspal Gill, pleaded guilty in February, admitting that he took in more than USD 5,00,000 as a key member of a smuggling ring, bringing in hundreds of Indian nationals across the border from Canada, the department of justice said in a press release
Updated on Jun 29, 2023 12:05 AM IST
Press Trust of India, New York
Indian chef in Singapore molested two teenage girls within 3-month span, jailed
Just about 3 months after he first molested a teenage girl in broad daylight near a train station, he targeted another girl whom he touched without consent
Published on Jun 24, 2023 08:37 AM IST
PTI |
Duo awarded 7-year jail for snatching woman’s chain in Chandigarh’s Sector 23
The Chandigarh court also imposed a fine of ₹25,000 on the convicts, Ishrar Khan, 35, who lives in the slums near Paras Downtown Mall in Zirakpur, and Shane Alam, 33, hailing from Bijnor district in Uttar Pradesh
Updated on Jun 07, 2023 01:05 AM IST
Tanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh
Delhi jails need urgent fixes
Seven inmates in Delhi’s jails have died since March. This cannot stand and needs attention
Published on Jun 06, 2023 09:12 PM IST
HT Editorial
Chandigarh: Schoolteacher gets 4-yr-jail for kidnapping 2 minor students
The case was registered in March 2007 on the complaint of the father of a 15-year-old girl living in Chandigarh. The complainant had told the police that his daughter, then a Class 10 student, had not returned home.
Updated on Jun 04, 2023 04:17 AM IST
Tanbir Dhaliwal, Chandigarh
Public Safety Act slapped on hardcore criminal, jailed
Notorious criminal Mohammad Ashraf Khan was detained under the Public Safety Act and sent to jail in Rajouri district. He had nine criminal cases against him.
Updated on Jun 01, 2023 10:42 PM IST
HT Correspondent, Jammu
U.P. govt focuses on prisoners’ skill training to help them after jail term
The Uttar Pradesh government is providing skill training to prisoners in various trades under the Prime Minister's skill development program to help them reintegrate into society. In the last year, 8,160 prisoners received training in about 60 trades, including computer software, carpentry, and beautician work. Training is being imparted in various district jails across the state.
Updated on May 30, 2023 08:21 PM IST
HT Correspondent, Lucknow
Sanjay Dutt dubbed lines at home for Zanjeer before going to jail the next day
Apoorva Lakhia shared that Sanjay Dutt completed his dubbing work on Zanjeer in 2013, a day before he was scheduled to go back to jail.
Published on May 30, 2023 05:30 PM IST
Court sends youth to 20-year jail for raping minor girl
A youth has been sentenced to 20 years in jail and fined ?40,000 for raping a 15-year-old girl in Kurukshetra under POCSO Act and IPC sections.
Updated on May 09, 2023 12:28 AM IST
HT Correspondent, Ambala
Ludhiana’s ‘most wanted’ was facing trial in 23 cases, shot dead
On May 22, 2016, Sukha was shot at by a friend-turned-foe, Sanjiv Sharma, alias Sunny, after barging into his rented accommodation in Star Colony of Barewal
Updated on May 08, 2023 11:47 PM IST
Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
95% inmates of UP jails clear class 10 board, 70% pass 12th exams
Of the 64 inmates who appeared for the Class 12 board examination, 45 -- 70.30 per cent -- cleared it. Six prisoners (13.30 per cent) scored first-division.
Published on May 07, 2023 01:21 PM IST
PTI | | Posted by Yagya Sharma
Indian-origin airport officer jailed for three years in Singapore
Besides the jail term, he was also ordered to pay a penalty of SGD 7,500. Premkumar will spend an additional 15 days behind bars if he is unable to pay fine.
Published on May 06, 2023 04:57 PM IST
PTI | | Posted by Yagya Sharma
25 crime lords, 160 gangs: Why Delhi jails are a security nightmare
Tihar is no stranger to gang violence where gangster Tillu Tajpuria was brutally stabbed to death by four members of his rival Jitender Gogi’s gang
Updated on May 03, 2023 04:49 AM IST
3 awarded two-year jail for murder bid on teen in Chandigarh
The victim in the case, Sonu, a resident of EWS Colony, Maloya, had told the Chandigarh Police that he was going home from Manimajra, when some youths, including Paras and Shabid, waylaid him and demanded money
Updated on May 02, 2023 02:59 AM IST
HT Correspondent, Chandigarh
Agents offer PAP flats to two women, dupe them of over ₹1cr
Four real estate agents, including a married couple, have been booked for allegedly duping two women of over ?1 crore on the pretext of providing them with Project Affected Persons tenements at cheaper rates in Parel, Mumbai. One of the accused is already in jail for his alleged involvement in a similar cheating case.
Updated on Apr 30, 2023 12:39 AM IST
Manish K Pathak
Most wanted criminal,aide arrested in Greater Noida after a gunfight
Earlier last month, Uttar Pradesh Police had released a list of most wanted criminals. From the list, only Manoj was out of jail, officers said
Updated on Apr 29, 2023 11:45 PM IST
Wife of slain IAS officer moves SC against ex-MP Anand Mohan’s release
Anand Mohan walked out of prison on April 24 after the Bihar government introduced a minor tweak in the Bihar Prison Manual on April 10 that exempted life convicts involved in murder of a public servant to be eligible for release under the state’s premature release policy after serving a sentence of 14 years.
Updated on Apr 29, 2023 10:50 PM IST
Abraham Thomas
Anand Mohan release: New caste equations being tried in Bihar, say experts
Even as it drew flak for the Bihar government, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has defended the move.
Published on Apr 29, 2023 03:35 PM IST
PTI | | Posted by Yagya Sharma
