Tag: jailed

Hyderabad varsity prof jailed for sexually harassing foreign student

Deeply traumatised by the sexual assault, the victim narrated the incident to her classmates.

December 4, 2022

Assam boxer jailed for supporting ULFA-I gets bail

A young wushu player and boxer from Assam's Moranhat who was jailed for allegedly supporting the banned outfit United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) has been granted by a court, an official said on Saturday.

August 6, 2022

Hong Kong activists jailed over Tiananmen crackdown vigil

Last June, Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong that targets secession, subversion, terrorism and foreign collusion in the city’s affairs. Over 100 people have been arrested under the national security law.

September 15, 2021

Chhattisgarh CM’s father jailed for hate speech

Bhupesh Baghel has serious ideological differences with his father. The Chief Minister has made it clear on several occasions that he has highest regard for his father, but he didn't approve his anti-Brahmin remarks or any of his statements which disrupt social harmony.

September 7, 2021

Trouble mounts for jailed BSP MP in rape case after complainant dies

The complainant and her companion had set themselves on fire outside the Supreme Court on 16 August, after making serious allegations against the police, including SSP Amit Pathak, retired IG Amitabh Thakur and a judge of conspiring against her.

August 25, 2021

72 killed in violence over jailing of S Africa’s ex-prez Zuma

South African police said in a statement that they had identified 12 people suspected of provoking the riots, and that a total of 1,234 people had been arrested

July 14, 2021

Former South African Prez sentenced to jail for contempt of court

This is the first time in South Africa’s history that a former president has been sentenced to prison.

June 29, 2021

Top Communist jailed in Vietnam trial

A former Communist Party official was on Monday sentenced to 13 years in jail in Vietnam after the most high-level trial in decades. Former Politburo member Dinh La Thang, 58, was found guilty of intentionally violating state regulations on economic management in state oil firm PetroVietnam (PVN), causing serious consequences, the BBC reported. The trial was...

January 22, 2018

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist jailed

A Hong Kong court on Wednesday sentenced an activist to three months in prison for obstruction of justice during pro-democracy protests in 2014. Joshua Wong, the youngest and best-known leader of the so-called “Umbrella Revolution”, would be going back to prison for failing to clear an area in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district that had...

January 17, 2018

Doctor jailed for defaming Zambian leader on Facebook

A court in western Zambia’s Mongu district on Wednesday sent a medical doctor to three years in jail after convicting him of defaming President Edgar Lungu. The doctor had created a fake Facebook account which he used to bring the name of the Zambian leader in ridicule by posting disturbing remarks, insults and digitally altering...

January 11, 2018

BSP MLA suffers heart attack in UP jail, hospitalised

Jailed BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari, who was lodged in Banda jail in connection with various criminal cases against him, on Tuesday suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the district hospital in Banda. “I have talked to the SSP, Banda, and he told me about it (heart attack). I have sought a report from...

January 9, 2018

Ex-Egyptian President sentenced for insulting judiciary

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced ousted President Mohamed Morsi to three years in jail for insulting the judiciary. Eighteen members of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood group received the same verdict on the same charges, reports Xinhua news agency. The defendants were accused of insulting the judiciary system, offending judges and inciting hatred against them, according...

December 30, 2017

Thailand sends fraudster to 13,275 years jail for Ponzi scheme

A Thai court has sentenced a fraudster to a total of 13,275 years in prison, a media report said. Pudit Kittithradilok, 34, admitted to the court on Friday of running a Ponzi scheme whereby he promised investors artificially high financial returns, reports the BBC. About 40,000 people were persuaded to pour more than $160 million...

December 30, 2017

Myanmar frees journalists jailed for flying drone

Two foreign journalists, an interpreter and a driver jailed for flying a drone near Myanmar’s parliament have been released, the authorities said on Friday. Cameraman Lau Hon Meng from Singapore and Malaysian reporter Mok Choy Lin were detained while shooting a documentary in October. Their driver Hla Tin and their interpreter, journalist Aung Naing Soe,...

December 29, 2017

Woman jailed in Switzerland for trying to join IS

A Swiss court has given a 31-year-old woman a partially suspended 18-month jail sentence after she tried to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group. The woman from Winterthur on Friday appeared before the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona near the Italian border, the Swiss news agency, ATS, reported where prosecutors...

December 16, 2017

Six sentenced to death in Tamil Nadu honour killing

A court in Tamil Nadu’s Tirupur district sentenced six people to death in an honour killing. Of the six, one is the father of the girl, S. Kausalya, whose husband Shankar was murdered in 2016. The court acquitted Kausalya’s mother S. Annalakshmi and two others. The court also sentenced five people to life imprisonment. Shankar and...

December 12, 2017

Honeypreet questioned by Haryana Police

Officials of the Special Investigation Team of Haryana Police have questioned jailed Dera sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s close aide Honeypreet. She is likely to be produced in a court here on Wednesday afternoon. Honeypreet, whose real name is Priyanka Taneja, who remained fugitive for 38 days after she was booked by the Haryana...

October 4, 2017