Court upholds life sentence of man for killing wife

October 13th, 2009 Gabon court upholds Bongo's victory after protestLIBREVILLE, Gabon — Gabon's constitutional court says the son of the country's longtime dictator won the Aug. 30 presidential elections that opposition candidates said were fraudulent.

September 1st, 2009 Killer gets life for Valentine's Day rampage in NYCANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — A twice-fired nursing supervisor drew a life sentence for shooting a couple to death during a Valentine's Day rampage that left four people dead in upstate New York.

August 6th, 2009 MUMBAI - A special Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) court on Thursday awarded the death sentence to all three accused in the 2003 Mumbai twin blasts case. Hanif Syed and his wife Fehmida have been found guilty of planting the bomb at the Gateway of India.

May 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Opposing a plea for release of one of the assassins of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, the Tamil Nadu government has told the Supreme Court that he may rejoin the Tamil Tigers if freed. 'The current fight between LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) and the Sri Lanka government may again infuse passion in him to act against the law,' said the state government, replying to the plea from P.R.

May 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Opposing a plea for release of one of the assassins of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, the Tamil Nadu government has told the Supreme Court that he may rejoin the Tamil Tigers if freed. 'The current fight between LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) and the Sri Lanka government may again infuse passion in him to act against the law,' said the state government, replying to the plea from P.R.

March 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Monday upheld the life imprisonment to a realtor for killing his newly-wedded wife in 2001. Vijay Pal and his hired killer Vinod were held guilty of murdering Rajni (26) on Aug 13, 2001, barely four months after Vuijay Pal married her.

March 15th, 2009 PATNA - Some of Bihar's infamous politicians, convicted of various crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment, are likely to field their relatives - including wives and parents - in the upcoming general elections as they are not eligible to contest themselves. Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MPs Rajesh Ranjan Yadav alias Pappu Yadav and Mohammad Shahabuddin, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) MP Suraj Singh alias Suraj Bhan Singh and former Janata Dal-United (JD-U) MP Anand Mohan, who are appealing their convictions, are planning to have a close relative contest from the constituencies they represent, according to party sources.

March 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Friday upheld the life term for a woman and her daughter who in a honour killing stabbed to death the woman's other daughter who was unmarried but pregnant. A division bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Aruna Suresh upheld the life imprisonment of Darshana and her daughter Rajani and stated, 'It is our social thinking that forces Indian community to take such drastic steps of killing family members.' 'The duo had taken this step to save their family's respect in society and killed their own blood,' said the bench.

March 13th, 2009 LONDON - A Court of Appeal has freed Labour life peer Lord Ahmed from a 12-week jail sentence that he had got for sending and receiving text messages minutes before he was involved in a fatal motorway crash in Rotherham. Lord Ahmed, 51, who was jailed by Sheffield Crown Court on February 25 after admitting dangerous driving, was not present for the ruling by three judges in London, reports The Times.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A court Wednesday sentenced a man to life imprisonment on charges of killing his 19-year-old wife within two months of marriage after she failed to bring a motorcycle as dowry. Additional Sessions Judge Narottam Kaushal also awarded a seven-year jail term to the father-in-law of the victim, Puran Singh, for his complicity in the crime.

February 21st, 2009 LONDON - A US soldier has been convicted of murder for his involvement in the killing four Iraqis who were shot and dumped in a Baghdad canal in 2007, the BBC reported. A military court at a US army base in Vilseck, Germany, Friday convicted Sgt Michael Leahy following his confession that he shot an Iraqi in the back of the head from close range.

February 17th, 2009 BANGALORE - A former police constable in Karnataka, dubbed as 'Jack the Ripper' after being charged with the rape and murder of 20 women, was Wednesday sentenced to death by the state high court for the rape and murder of a widow in 1998. Umesh Reddy alias B.A.

February 2nd, 2009 VANCOUVER - An Indian-Canadian father, who had strangled and then decapitated his two-year-old daughter in the Vancouver suburb of Delta last year, has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Forty-eight-year-old Lakhvinder Singh Kahlon had slit the throat of his toddler on the morning of Jan 18 last year at the family home when his wife, Manjit, was away to drop their two elder daughters to school.

January 23rd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - A court here Saturday sentenced a man and his son to life imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs.15,000 on each of them after their conviction for an honour killing six months ago. A bench of Additional District and Sessions Judge Raj Rahul Garg announced the quantum of sentence Saturday.

January 13th, 2009 TAIYUAN - A 17-year-old student was sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing a teacher last year in north China's Shanxi Province, a court announced Wednesday. The student, identified only by his surname of Li, was dissatisfied with the work of head teacher Hao Xudong, according to evidence heard by the Intermediate People's Court of Shuozhou City during the initial trial.