RG Kar victim's neighbour moves to Calcutta HC claiming house destruction after poll resultA prosecution witness in a Kolkata rape and murder case approached the Calcutta High Court. He claims his house was vandalised after electi...
19 May, 2026, 12.21 PM IST
Calcutta High Court sets aside single bench order granting premature release to 1993 blast convictThe Calcutta High Court has reversed a decision to release Md Khalid, convicted in the 1993 Bowbazar blast case. The court supported the St...
22 Sep, 2025, 11.39 PM IST
Kolkata Court sentences man to death for rape and attempted murder of infantA special Pocso court in Kolkata sentenced Rajiv Ghosh to death for the brutal rape and attempted murder of a seven-month-old girl. Describ...
18 Feb, 2025, 09.32 PM IST
RG Kar rape-murder: HC rejects Bengal govt's plea for death to convictThe Calcutta High Court dismissed West Bengal government's plea for a death penalty for Sanjay Roy, convicted in the rape and murder of a d...
08 Feb, 2025, 12.04 AM IST
RG Kar Case: Victim's parents not pushing for death penalty any moreThe parents of the RG Kar rape and murder victim do not seek the death penalty for the convicted civic volunteer, Sanjoy Roy, but desire pu...
28 Jan, 2025, 12.19 AM IST
Will decide on appeal after hearing CBI, victim's family & convict: Calcutta HC on RG Kar rape, murder caseThe Calcutta High Court will decide on January 27 about the West Bengal government's appeal against the 'inadequacy of sentence' for convic...
22 Jan, 2025, 11.44 PM IST
HC to hear doc's family, CBI, convict before deciding on admission of state's appeal in RG Kar caseThe Calcutta High Court will hear the CBI, the victim's family, and the convict before deciding on the West Bengal government's appeal rega...
22 Jan, 2025, 12.15 PM IST
RG Kar rape-murder case: Suvendu Adhikari hails victim's parents for rejecting compensation and fighting for death penalty for culpritBJP leader Suvendu Adhikari supports the parents of a raped and murdered trainee doctor in their decision to challenge the life sentence of...
22 Jan, 2025, 07.40 AM IST
Not satisfied: Mamata Banerjee on court giving life imprisonment to RG Kar convictWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed dissatisfaction over the life imprisonment given to the convict in the RG Kar hospital...
20 Jan, 2025, 08.10 PM IST
RG Kar Case: Accused Sanjoy Roy claims innocence, says Rudraksha beads would have broken if he had sinnedIn the sentencing hearing for the 2024 rape and murder case of a doctor in Kolkata, the accused, Sanjoy Roy, asserted his innocence, claimi...
20 Jan, 2025, 03.10 PM IST
Former judge CS Karnan taken to Kolkata by West Bengal PoliceKarnan, who earned the dubious distinction of being the first sitting high court judge to be awarded a jail term by the apex court, had ret...
21 Jun, 2017, 02.27 PM IST
On the run for over a month, former Kolkata HC judge CS Karnan arrested in CoimbatoreIn January this year, Justice Karnan stirred a hornet's nest after he alleged that 20 sitting and retired Supreme Court and High Court judg...
20 Jun, 2017, 08.54 PM IST
Police hunt for Justice Karnan with no luckKarnan had yesterday moved the Supreme Court seeking recall of its order holding him guilty of contempt of court and sentencing him to a si...
12 May, 2017, 09.22 PM IST
Gulberg massacre case: Defence seeks lenient punishment for convictsThe special SIT court is hearing arguments made by the defence on mitigating circumstances and other factors before determining the sentenc...
09 Jun, 2016, 05.28 PM IST
- SC stays Aftab Ansari’s death sentence
The Supreme Court has stayed the death sentence awarded to gangster-terrorist Aftab Ahmed Ansari in the Kolkata American Centre attack case.
26 May, 2010, 06.27 AM IST
- American Centre attack: SC stays death sentence of Ansari
The SC stayed the death sentence in the American Centre attack.
25 May, 2010, 12.29 PM IST
- CPM stocks up its ammo over Saddam verdict
CPI-M would put pressure on the Congress-led UPA government to protest against and condemn the death sentence handed out to former Iraq pre...
07 Nov, 2006, 12.38 AM IST