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Businessman spent 57 days in jail over aamchur & garam masala in airport luggage. Here’s what went horribly wrongA businessman was wrongly jailed for 57 days after airport security mistook aamchur and garam masala for narcotics. The Madhya Pradesh High...- Supreme Court mulls compensation for wrongful convictionThe Supreme Court will examine compensation for individuals wrongfully arrested, prosecuted, or convicted, acknowledging many are made scap...
- RG Kar rape case: West Bengal govt seeks death penalty, Calcutta HC to hear case on January 27The West Bengal government has appealed to the Calcutta High Court's Division Bench against the life imprisonment verdict for Sanjay Roy, s...
- 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...
- Three get life imprisonment for killing Palghar man in 2016A Thane court has sentenced three persons to life imprisonment for killing a man in 2016 and robbing his jewellery, saying the motive behin...
- 'Apology too late': Indian-origin UK officer after being jailed for 12 years during pregnancy for stealingSeema Misra, a former Post Office manager wrongly jailed for theft over faulty software, has rejected the apology from the engineer whose e...
- International students take legal action against UK Home Office for being wrongly accused of cheating on English testsInternational students in the UK, represented by law firm Bindmans, have initiated legal proceedings against the Home Office for cheating a...
- Man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 37 years to receive $14 million as compensationRobert DuBoise, wrongfully convicted in the 1983 rape and murder in Tampa, will receive $14 million in a settlement with the city. Barbara ...
- 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,...
- 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...
- Court sentences Asaram to life imprisonment in 2013 rape case, says his crime is against societyThe court on Monday convicted Asaram in a case registered in 2013 for raping a woman disciple, who hailed from Surat, on several occasions ...
- 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...
- Supreme Court says arrest of scientist in ISRO spy case 'unnecessary'Nambi Narayanan was "arrested unnecessarily and subjected to cruelty", the SC has held.
- Urgent law needed to rehabilitate wrongful imprisonment victims: Delhi High CourtIt directed the Law Commission to undertake a comprehensive examination of the issue and give its recommendations to the central government.
- Delhi: Lokpal bill in House next weekThe draft Delhi Jan Lokpall Bill 2015 is clearly not a replica of its 2014 avatar but a "revised version" of the draft that emerged from th...
- Strategic arrest on Friday night violation of Constitution: Central Information CommissionInformation Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu directed the Tihar Prison to frame a policy for preventing any excessive detention of inmates.
- Australia rights body terms Indian student detention as arbitrary; likely to get a compensation of 600,000 Australian dollarsPrashant Cherkupalli was detained in late 2004 for working at a bakery in Western Sydney without the correct visa.
- Tihar inmates' wages doubledThe Delhi government has nearly doubled the wages earned by Tihar inmates under the Minimum Wages Act for the work rendered by them in the ...
- Australia refuses to apologise to Haneef over wrong detentionAustralia's government and opposition on Wednesday refused to apologise to an Indian doctor wrongly charged over a British terrorist plot, ...
- LLPs may not get total immunity for lapsesProfessionals and investors planning to do riskier business without fear of losing their personal assets under the proposed limited liabili...
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