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The court convicts four in the 2024 murder of a policeman’s wife and daughter

The investigation established that he had allegedly accumulated ₹1,35,29,714.37 worth of disproportionate assets.

A Dominican court in Santiago must now decide whether 13 people and five companies face trial over phone scams that cost older Americans about US$5 million. The post Dominican Republic Charges 13 Over US Grandparent Scam appeared first on The Rio Times.

New York City can proceed with the rollout of its pied-à-terre tax while an appeals court considers a legal challenge.

An Algiers court has sentenced nine people over 113 kg of cocaine, the first death sentences under Algeria's 2025 drug law. No execution since 1993. The post Algeria Hands Down First Death Sentences Under Its New Drug Law appeared first on The Rio Times.

The Arizona appeals court ruled that airing an AI message from the dead victim "crossed that line".

The accused, Hail Raju, was sentenced by Special Judge Anju Meera Birla, Fast Track Special Court (POCSO), Thiruvananthapuram, on charges of assaulting a minor girl

The temple’s Executive Officer tells the court the 160 acres are the deity’s inalienable property; the petition by environmentalist Bolisetti Satyanarayana is to be heard on October 5

Who is Sachin Vaze? What is the Antilia case? What did the Special Court rule? What did the High Court order on September 30? Was bail refused? What happens next?

A Havana court convicted the Cuban content creator Anna Bensi and her mother on 1 October for posting a video of a police officer, sentencing each to two years of restricted liberty, a non-custodial penalty. The post Cuba Gives Influencer and Mother Two-Year Non-Custodial Terms Over Video appeared first on The Rio Times.

A Guyanese court has charged a 33-year-old man with abducting two Surinamese men who vanished after setting out for Guyana by boat on 29 August. His lawyers say he was elsewhere. He was granted bail, and the men have not been found. The post Guyana Charges Man Over Two Surinamese Men Missing Since 29 August appeared first on The Rio Times.

A Santiago court convicted Maickel Villegas in the Ronald Ojeda murder on 1 October. A political motive was not proven, and sentencing is set for 15 October. The post Chile Court Convicts Villegas in Ronald Ojeda Murder appeared first on The Rio Times.

A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath, A. G. Masih, and Sandeep Mehta issued notice to the Gujarat government on a plea of Ahmed Bawa alias Abbu Abubakar Barelvi against the High Court verdict

Court holds that due to government order still in force suspending all visa services to Pakistani nationals after Pahalgam terror attack, the petitioner cannot demand that her visa application be processed

A US appeal court on Wednesday halted the ⁠execution of death row inmate Christa Pike in Tennessee, less than two hours before she was scheduled to become the first woman that state has put to death in more than 200 years. The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a “short stay of execution” to give it time to weigh Pike’s claim that her allegations of childhood sexual abuse were not adequately considered during her sentencing. The court did not provide a specific time frame. Pike, whose...

Justice V. Lakshminarayanan calls for status report from an SIT probing the POCSO case against R. Veeramani of Gem Granites

Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung’s former father-in-law enlisted his two sons to help him murder the 28-year-old and dispose of her dismembered body after he became “extremely resentful and angry” over her insistence on selling a HK$72 million (US$9.2 million) flat where he was living, a court has heard. The prosecution on Wednesday began delivering its opening statements in what is expected to be an eight-week High Court trial over the influencer’s murder and the illegal disposal of her...

Hong Kong’s High Court has sentenced a man with a triad background to three years and two months after he attacked an associate with a hammer, leaving the victim bleeding on the street before he died of an overdose hours later. The court heard on Tuesday that Mo Tai-fung, 42, was initially charged with murdering the 33-year-old, having allegedly struck him on the head 11 times at about 2am on July 28, 2024, outside a building on Pilkem Street in Yau Ma Tei. Prosecutors amended the charge at an...

Court says custodial interrogation unnecessary; bail subject to conditions including weekly appearance before investigating officer and cooperation with probe

Parastoo Ahmadi was convicted of "offending public decency" after singing while wearing a sleeveless dress during a livestreamed concert.

Spain's Swiftair was fined 225,000 euros in France for corporate manslaughter over 2014 Air Algerie disaster in Mali.

The public safety hazards would include trees, damaged roads, open manholes, blocked drains, exposed electrical installations, unsafe construction, encroachments, or any condition capable of causing death or serious injury, the court said.

Rejecting the GBA’s defence that the incident was an “act of God” and that claim for compensation can be raised through a civil suit, the court said that it has power to award compensation under public law remedy

High Court criticises the actors’ association over the high number of petitions arising from disputes between its members; observations made while considering a petition to quash an FIR lodged against actor Lakshmipriya

The appeal also challenges the acquittal of former WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar on the charge of criminal intimidation

Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan direct the central agency to file its counter affidavit to his plea to quash PMLA proceedings

Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan, however, restore the complaint and direct the court concerned to grant an opportunity of hearing to the accused before taking cognisance

He says the arrest happened only at the insistence of a special court and accuses the ruling government of “shielding” the accused