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  • MP courts awards death sentence to rape-murder convict within 4 months of incident

    MP courts awards death sentence to rape-murder convict within 4 months of incident

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    Bhopal: A district court in Madhya Pradesh has awarded death penalty to a 22-year-old youth for raping and killing a nine-year-old girl.

    While pronouncing the judgement on Tuesday, the court termed the act as ‘heinous’, which called for an exemplary punishment to send a strong message to the society.

    The gruesome incident took place in November 2022, and the court pronounced its judgement within three months of the crime. After a fast-track probe, the police had filed a charge-sheet against accused Rahul Kavde, a resident of Betul district, soon after the crime was committed.

    The court has also announced financial aid of Rs 5 lakh for the victim’s family.

    According to the police, Kavde, who is the brother-in-law of the victim’s father, strangulated her to death after raping her in Itarsi town in Narmadapuram district. The police had recovered the body from a forest area located near the victim’s house.

    A missing complaint was lodged at the local police station, following which the Narmadapuram district police had launched a search operation. The police were initially clueless until they came to know that the girl was seen walking with a youth, who later turned out to be the brother-in-law of the victim’s father. Subsequently, the police detained Kavde, who confessed to the crime during interrogation.

    Narmadapuram SP Gurkaran Singh said the accused was taken to the forest area where he dumped the body. He tried to mislead the police for hours, but around 70 policemen and FSL team members kept on searching and after five hours, they finally found the body in a semi-nude condition. The child’s face was covered with a cloth.

    Singh said, “The murderer was immediately arrested by the police and was presented with a challan in the court within 11 days. On the basis of solid evidence, he has been sentenced to death by the Itarsi court.”

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Saudi increases prison sentence of US citizen to 19 years for tweets

    Saudi increases prison sentence of US citizen to 19 years for tweets

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    Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia court has increased the sentenced of Saad Ibrahim Almadi, who holds both Saudi and American nationalities, to 19 years in prison, local media reported.

    72-year-old Saad Ibrahim Almadi, retired project manager living in Florida, was arrested in November 2021, while visiting family in the kingdom and was sentenced in October 2022 to 16 years.

    Saudi court convicted him of attempting to destabilize the kingdom and supporting terrorism.

    As per media reports, Saad Almadi had been detained over 14 tweets posted on Twitter over the past seven years, mostly criticizing government policies and accusing them of corruption. He was also banned from traveling for 16 years.

    As per New York Post, the US State Department informed Ibrahim Almadi of the new Saudi punishment, on Wednesday, February 8, months after the White House publicly condemned the mistreatment of his father, Saad Almadi.

    Ibrahim, criticized the handling of his father’s case after the US State Department told him that his father would spend a longer period in prison.

    He told The New York Post, ‘It’s not a slap in the face, it’s a middle finger. When the US asked for an appeal, they said: “Here you go, 19 years!”‘

    This appears to be the latest in a series of recent cases in which Saudis have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for social media posts critical of the government.

    Wave of arrests

    Since Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS, became the Saudi crown prince in June 2017, dozens of imams, women’s rights activists and members of the ruling royal family have been detained.

    In August 2022, Saudi court sentenced a woman Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani to 45 years in prison for using Twitter to express her opinions.

    This conviction of Nourah Al-Qahtani comes less than a month after another Saudi woman, Salma al-Shehab, was sentenced to 34 years in prison and given a further 34-year travel ban for following and retweeting activists on Twitter.

    Similarly, in August 2022, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Courts of Appeal sentenced a prominent former imam and preacher at the Grand Mosque in Makkah Sheikh Saleh Al Talib to ten years in prison.

    Among those arrested are prominent Islamic preachers Salman al-Awdah, Awad al-Qarni, Farhan al-Malki, Mostafa Hassan and Safar al-Hawali.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • NIA Courts Sentence Militant, LeT Affiliate To Varied Jail Terms

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    SRINAGAR: A Special Judge (Designated) under NIA Act here has sentenced a militant, arrested in 2020, to five years in jail.

    The court passed the verdict in a case FIR (No. 07/2020) under section 16, 18, 19, 20, 39, UA (P) Act and 7/25 I.A Act of police station Saddar Srinagar.

    The convicted militant, Nisar Ahmad Dar alias Usman of Wahabpora Hajin Bandipora, was held along with one AK-47 Rifle with two Magazines, 60 live rounds and two Chinese-made hand grenades with one pouch, police said. “The Court while pronouncing judgement has awarded 05 years of simple imprisonment for each offence U/S 18, 19, 20, 39, UA (P) Act and 7/25 I.A Act to the accused. The punishment shall run concurrently,” news agency GNS quoted police as having said.

    Similarly, on February 2, he said, the Court of Special Judge (Designated) under NIA Act, Anantnag convicted one LeT affiliate Dawood Ahmad Dar son of Mushtaq Ahmad Dar of Ashmuji Kulgam and sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for a period of four (04) years and eight (08) months U/S 5 of Explosive Substance Act in a case (FIR No. 42/18) filed with police station Devsar. “The accused has been guilty of having illegally one grenade in his possession”.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )