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Supreme Court mulls compensation for wrongful convictionThe Supreme Court will examine compensation for individuals wrongfully arrested, prosecuted, or convicted, acknowledging many are made scap...- When the state errs, let it compensateA Kerala man was acquitted by the Supreme Court after wrongly serving jail time in a double murder case. India currently lacks a law for co...
- Who is Iwao Hakamada, awarded $1.4 million by Japanese court for wrongful conviction?Iwao Hakamada, a death row inmate, has received a historical 217 million yen ($1.14 million) in government compensation for his wrongful in...
- What is UK Post Office Scandal? Who is Paula Vennells?UK Post Office Scandal has created quite a public uproar in that country as the former British Post Office boss Paula Vennells is facing a ...
- UK's Post Office scandal: Fujitsu manager calls sub-postmaster 'nasty chap'Fujitsu manager Peter Sewell referred to sub-postmaster Lee Castleton as a "nasty chap" in a 2006 email. Sewell apologized during the inqui...
- Rishi Sunak plans bill to exonerate post office scandal victimsMinisters are trying to draw a line under a long-running saga that left thousands of people out of pocket, with many wrongfully imprisoned,...
- UK to bring in new law to quash wrongful Post Office convictionsFrom 1999 to 2015, self-employed sub-postmasters at state-owned Post Office branches faced convictions for theft, fraud, and false accounti...
- Here's everything you need to know about the Britain's Post Office scandalBetween 1999 and 2015, numerous postal workers at the state-owned Post Office faced wrongful prosecutions or convictions. They were accused...
- Post Office scandal: UK Ministers consider options to speed up justicePost Office minister Kevin Hollinrake stated that the government is actively exploring options, including potential legislation, to overtur...
- What is Britain's Post Office scandal?One of the UK's major miscarriages of justice, involving wrongful convictions of Post Office workers due to faulty software, gains public a...
- Post Office scandal: Rishi Sunak pledges to 'make it right'A national outcry over the scandal has intensified, with over 700 branch managers facing legal consequences for apparent financial discrepa...
- SC notice to Centre on pleas seeking guidelines for compensation to victims of wrongful prosecutionThe petitions were filed in the apex court in the backdrop of a case in which the Allahabad High Court had in January declared a man, earli...
- BJP leader moves SC, seeks strict action against fake complainants in criminal casesThe PIL has been filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kapil Mishra in the backdrop of a sensational case in which the Allahabad Hig...
- Loss of cheque to be compensated by bank: NCDRC; directs BoB to pay Rs 3L to customerThe state commission on January 20, 2016 allowed Divanji's appeal directing the bank to pay him Rs 3,60,000 and had set aside the district ...
- SC nod for compensation scheme for sexual assault, acid attack victimsThe scheme says that victim of acid attacks, in case of disfigurement of face, would get a minimum compensation of Rs 7 lakh, while the upp...
- Sukhbir Singh Badal trying to flare up communal tension in Punjab: AAPThe party's Punjab convenor, Gurpreet Singh Ghuggi, said Sukhbir must "own up to putting pressure on police officers" to "falsely implicate...
- Law Commission for "swift" scrapping of capital punishmentLaw Commission recommended by a majority "swift" abolition of death penalty except in terror-related cases, noting it does not serve the pe...
- Samajwadi Party demands quota for Muslims in government jobsDemanding quota for Muslims in govt jobs, Yadav said the "precarious" status of the community has been correctly highlighted by the Sachar ...
- GoM crunches numbers for Bhopal payoutA concerned group of ministers on Monday disagreed with the amounts presented to it, calling the method of calculation "simplistic" and gav...
- SC reopens Bhopal case, notices to accused on homicide chargeThe Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to have a relook at its 1996 judgment on the Bhopal gas tragedy, which had diluted criminal charges aga...
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