Jail term

The boy's hands and ankles were in handcuffs during the assault as Williams believed that she was disciplining him.

Nashik District Court on Thursday sentenced Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Manikrao Kokate and his brother Sunil Kotake to two years of imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 each in a forgery case.

A 49-year Uyghur Muslim woman in China was reportedly sentenced to 17 years in jail for teaching religious verses to her sons and a neighbour.

A POCSO court in Kerala's Manjeri sentenced 29-year-old Unais, son of Hussain, to 87 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old minor girl

“You bas**rd, Cha**atto (casteist slur), how did you get the courage to build a Dharamshala? This is our place!” the convicts had reportedly told the labourers while thrashing them with batons and sticks.

Under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), which replaced the Indian Penal Code, drivers who cause a serious road accident by negligent driving and run away without informing the police or any official from the administration can face punishment of up to 10 years or a fine of Rs7 lakh. Earlier, the punishment in such cases was two years in the IPC.

Both the birth certificates of Abdullah Azam Khan were issued fraudulently and under a pre-planned conspiracy.

BJP MP Ramshankar Katheria on Saturday was awarded two-year imprisonment by an Agra Court in connection with a vandalism case at a company in a mall in 2011.

Navjot Singh Sidhu said after his release, "There is no such thing as democracy right now. There is a conspiracy to bring President’s Rule in Punjab."