Sicilian court gives accused mobster suffering depression house arrest instead of jail

September 11th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Barely a day after his release, hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was placed under house arrest here late Thursday evening, a police official said Friday. Geelani was placed under house arrest in Srinagar as a preventive measure, the official said.

August 18th, 2009 Police nab fugitive on Sicilian holidayROME — Police say they arrested a fugitive mobster while he was vacationing with his family at the Sicilian seaside. Paolo De Stefano has been one of Italy's 30 most dangerous fugitives since 2005.

July 10th, 2009 Boston mobster says watched Bulger kill girlfriendBOSTON — New England mobster Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi says he watched his cohort James "Whitey" Bulger strangle Flemmi's 26-year-old-girlfriend. Flemmi says that in 1981, he lured Debra Davis to a vacant home where Bulger was waiting.

June 16th, 2009 Italian police arrest dozens in anti-Mafia raidROME — Italian police said Tuesday they had arrested 13 people suspected of helping a top Mafia fugitive hide, communicate with other mobsters and conduct his business. Investigators said that with Tuesday's arrests they are closing in on Matteo Messina Denaro, a fugitive who is among a handful of mobsters vying to take over the Sicilian Mafia.

June 10th, 2009 Couple accused of spying to appear in courtWASHINGTON — A former State Department employee and his wife, accused of spying for Cuba for three decades, are having a day in court to find out whether they will stay in jail. Retired State Department official Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, have been behind bars since they were arrested Thursday.

April 10th, 2009 LAHORE - A 20-year-old Indian civilian has reportedly been found dead inside the Kot Lakhpat District Jail here under mysterious circumstances. Jail officials, however, said that the man identified as Muhammad Naeem of Uttar Pradesh had died of cardiac arrest.

April 4th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani, who is under arrest for her alleged involvement in a massacre during the 2002 communal riots, Saturday accused Congress leaders Kapil Sibal and Ahmed Patel of having falsely implicated her and former state Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) general secretary Jaideep Patel. 'We have been falsely implicated by Kapil Sibal and Ahmed Patel,' she told reporters after being sent to 24 hours judicial custody by a city metropolitan court.

March 24th, 2009 SINGAPORE - A Singapore court Monday sentenced an Australian project manager who threw his Thai wife out of their fourth-floor bedroom window to 25 months in jail, a media report said. The court found Jason John Porteous, 36, who pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter, to have been suffering from depression and alcoholism at the time of the May 17 incident.

March 10th, 2009 LAHORE - The Lahore High Court Monday extended the house arrest of Hafeez Saeed, head of the banned outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawa, and four others by 60 days. Hafiz Saeed was presented before the review board of the court along with his four aides under high security, The News reported.

March 8th, 2009 LONDON - Children take on enormous responsibility for a parent who is ill and for other family members, according to the findings of a new study. Britt Hedman Ahlstrom, a nurse who conducted research for a doctoral thesis at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, examined how family life is affected when a parent is suffering from depression.

February 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Thursday allowed a suspected Indian Mujahideen suspect, allegedly involved in the Sep 13 Delhi serial bombings, to appear for his MBA exams from jail premises here. Justice Reva Khetrapal asked the jail authorities and Sikkim Manipal University to make proper arrangement for accused Saquib Nisar so that he could appear in the MBA third semester examinations.

January 28th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The police Thursday filed charges against 10 people, accused in the rape of a nun when religious riots hot Orissa's Kandhamal district last year, officials said. The charges were filed in the court of sub-divisional judicial magistrate at Baliguda in Kandhamal, investigating officer D.K.

January 26th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Allahabad High Court Tuesday turned down a plea to stay the arrest of Vibha Tiwari, a co-accused with her arrested lawmaker husband Shekhar in lynching of an Uttar Pradesh engineer last November. Vibha Tiwari has been absconding ever since the police went on her trail for allegedly destroying evidences at the guest house in Auraiya where Manoj Kumar Gupta was tortured to death by the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator and his henchmen.

January 2nd, 2009 PATNA - Gautam Goswami, a former Patna district magistrate and a key accused in the Rs.170 million ($3.86 million) Bihar flood relief scam of 2004, was admitted to a hospital Saturday and his condition was described as critical, a family source said. Goswami has been suffering from cancer for over a year.

December 26th, 2008 KOLKATA - Ashok Todi, the prime accused in the case related to his son-in-law Rizwanur Rehman's mysterious death, was admitted to a city hospital Saturday with a backache he has been suffering for a week. According to sources in the S.S.K.M.