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Four years after Vikram Poddar, a 29-year-old project manager at Infosys, was murdered, Victor Monteiro, a car driver, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime. The judgment was delivered by principal district and sessions judge Madan Joshi, who observed that the prosecution had established the chain of circumstance
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Two men, Dwight Carter, 26, and Emmanuel Maxime, 25, were convicted by Miami juries for their roles in the December 2008 armored car robbery and murder of a guard at the Dadeland Mall. Carter was found guilty on six counts, including conspiracy, robbery, and murder, while Maxime was convicted of
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A Haryana court dealt a significant blow to the kangaroo courts in the state by convicting seven persons in a case of honour killing. The six individuals found guilty of murdering Manoj and Babli were Babli's brother Suresh, cousins Gurdev and Satish, uncles Baru Ram and Rajender, and
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A trail of events set in motion by the 2003 murder of Satyendra Kumar Dubey, a whistleblower who exposed corruption in the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), has finally led to the conviction of three accused. Mantu Kumar, Udai Kumar, and Pinku Ravidas were found guilty of robbing and
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Amnesty International has condemned the execution of five military men found guilty of killing Bangladesh's founding leader, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in August 1975. The human rights watchdog has raised concerns about the timeline and procedures of the execution, and has called on the government to ensure transparency
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In a hearing held at the sessions court in Sangli, India, five individuals were awarded life imprisonment and one received rigorous imprisonment for a span of 10 years for their involvement in the brutal murder of a father and son in 2006. The convicts, who are close friends and relatives,
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The world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, has spent 41 years in prison for a murder that his lawyer now believes he did not commit. Hakamada's case exemplifies the cruelty inherent in Japan's treatment of its most heinous criminals. Death row prisoners in
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A death row inmate in Taiwan is set to face his 11th retrial in 21 years, sparking concerns about the fairness of his trial. Chiou Ho-shun was first tried in 1987 for the deaths of a nine-year-old boy and a middle-aged woman. Despite being detained for over two decades, the
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For nearly nine years, Carla Wilson prayed every day that her daughter's killer would be caught. On Thursday, police say, her wish came true. Tampa police charged Carl Chavers, a 40-year-old inmate serving a lengthy sentence on unrelated rape charges, with first-degree murder and sexual battery in the
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Five undertrial prisoners exploded bombs and injured two policeman in a bid to escape from police custody in Bihar's Munger district court. In the retaliatory police action, one of them was killed, three re-arrested while one won his freedom. Meanwhile, five other criminals escaped from a police station
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Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, is expected to be released from prison next week on compassionate grounds due to his terminal prostate cancer. The Scottish Government is set to make a final decision, with Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill citing Megrahi's deteriorating
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President Asif Ali Zardari has announced a special remission in sentences to convicts of various categories on the occasion of Pakistan's Independence Day, as advised by the Prime Minister. This decision applies to a wide range of prisoners, with varying levels of remission granted depending on the nature
