Tag: Jail
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Kashmiri youths are being sent to jails across India
New Delhi: The Central Government is believed to have detained thousands of youth including activists, local politicians and businessmen in Kashmir and sent them to jails elsewhere in India since it stripped the region of its autonomy on 5 August. Many Kashmiris are being held in Agra Central Jail after the government imposed an unprecedented…
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Sharif gets 7-year jail term in graft case
Islamabad : An accountability court on Monday sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to seven years in prison in Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption reference, while acquitted him in the the Flagship Investments reference. The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader was taken into custody after the verdict and will be transported to Adiala Jail. He was…
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Lalu Prasad gets 3-1/2 years jail in fodder scam case
By Nityanand Shukla, Ranchi : In a huge setback to the RJD, its supremo Lalu Prasad was on Saturday sentenced to three-and-a-half-years jail in a fodder scam case. After three days of arguments on the quantum of punishment, special CBI judge Shivpal Singh pronounced the order through video conferencing. As the CBI judge was delivering…