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The Centre on Friday accepted amendments in the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act and approved death penalty in cases of aggravated sexual assault of kids. Making the announcement, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said this was done to make the law stricter. Here's more.

Bringing relief to the convicted offenders with death penalty, the Apex court has commuted death sentence into life term imprisonment on the basis of delay in considering over the mercy pleas asked by the convicted prisoners. The panel of a bench was headed by 40th Chief Justice of our country, P. Sathasivam.

The apex court of India had granted the plea of former Rajiv Gandhi's assassins by commuting their death sentence to life term imprisonment today a short while ago. The Supreme Court has also given authority to the state government to decide if the murderers should be released or kept in prison.

The sentence for three Shakti Mills gang-rape convicts, who were found guilty for two rape cases, will be pronounced today by the session court in Mumbai and they may face death sentence as on Thursday the three were booked under IPC section 376 (E), a new legal provision under which repeat offenders may face death sentence or life-term imprisonment.

Nobody has ever heard Holi celebration in air but the floor of SpiceJet became dance floor to party and shake legs for crew of this aircraft on the eve of the festival of colours, i.e. Holi. The expenses of this celebration slammed a tremendous blow to no-frill carrier SpiceJet since DGCA issued a show cause notice to the flight authority with hefty penalty. Two of its pilots also got suspension from their services.

So you are suffering with raining of telemarketing calls everyday? Especially when you're waiting for a call for a telephonic interview or from special someone? Yeah, that will be annoying. But you can get rid of that, even you can file a case and ask for penalty. If you want to stop al

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has collected ₹ 3.5 lakh as penalties from seven construction companies, for violation of air pollution control norms in the first three days of December, the SDMC said yesterday. Each company has been fined with an amount of ₹ 50,000, it said in a statement