New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved its judgment on appeals of three convicts against a trial court verdict awarding them life imprisonment for abducting and killing Nitish Katara in 2002.
A division bench of Justice Gita Mittal and Justice JR Midha reserved the judgment after all the parties concluded their arguments in the appeals whose hearing started April 16, 2012.
The court was hearing appeals of convicts Vikas Yadav, brother of Katara's friend Bharti, and Vishal Yadav, Bharti's cousin, and contract killer Sukhdev Pehalwan, who are serving life terms in Tihar Jail.
The prosecution and the victim's mother Neelam Katara have also filed appeals seeking enhancement of sentence of the convicts. They sought death penalty for the murderers....
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08:01 PM, Mar 21, 2013
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01:06 PM, Feb 09, 2013
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12:11 PM, Aug 30, 2012
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12:01 AM, Aug 30, 2012
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04:07 PM, Jul 25, 2012
New Delhi: The 2008 Mumbai terror attack convict and Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab Tuesday told the Supreme Court that he was denied fair trial as he was not provided legal assistance during the initial stages as mandated under the Indian constitution. Once an accused, including a foreigner, is tried for an offence in India the provisions related to arrest as mentioned in the constitution get applied in his case. "Denial...
11:58 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: The 2008 Mumbai terror attack convict and Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab Tuesday told the Supreme Court that he was denied fair trial as he was not provided legal assistance during the initial stages as mandated under the Indian constitution. Once an accused, including a foreigner, is tried for an offence in India the provisions related to arrest as mentioned in the constitution get applied in his case. "Denial ...
11:58 PM, Jan 31, 2012
When the courts of law are counted as 'heroes' of the year in an annual list, it may mean two things. One, the judiciary in the country is generally 'non-heroic', or non-performing. In other words, it was in the year 2011 only that the courts across the nation got their act together and showed a unique commitment to heroic judgments. Or two, that the courts in India went out of...
03:43 PM, Dec 15, 2011
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12:45 PM, May 24, 2011
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11:43 PM, May 24, 2010
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06:41 PM, May 11, 2010
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01:21 PM, May 09, 2010
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09:30 AM, May 07, 2010
Congress says there is no reason why Kasab's death sentence will be delayed as the queue is not set in stone. ...
12:24 AM, May 07, 2010
At 1340 hrs IST on Thursday the special court of Judge M L Tahaliyani gave the lone Mumbai attacker captured alive, Ajmal Amir Kasab, the death sentence. The judge said there was no chance for reform and Kasab should get the death sentence for his role in 26/11 Mumbai attacks. ...
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