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India at Sixty
A Tribune Supplement

Thursday, October 25, 2007, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

1 day, 4 cases,
 60 life terms
Law catches up with killers

IT was a day of life sentences across the country on Wednesday when a former minister, policemen, a lawyer and fundamentalist leaders were among 60 convicts who were given this punishment by courts for criminal acts in four separate cases.

1997: Connaught Place Shooting
 ACP, 9 cops sentenced
New Delhi, October 24
Delhi Police encounter specialist ACP S.S. Rathi and nine other members of his team were today awarded life sentence by a special CBI court here for killing two Haryana businessmen in the infamous Connaught Place shooting 10 years ago, rejecting their plea for lenient view on the ground that it was a case of mistaken identity.

S.S. Rathi, former ACP of Crime Branch, Delhi Police, who has been convicted in the 1997 Connaught Place shooting case is brought to hear the verdict at the Patiala House Court in New Delhi
S.S. Rathi, former ACP of Crime Branch, Delhi Police, who has been convicted in the 1997 Connaught Place shooting case is brought to hear the verdict at the Patiala House Court in New Delhi on Wednesday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

2003: Madhumita Case
 Amarmani, wife pay for murder
Dehra Dun, October 24
 The Sessions Court here today sentenced sitting Samajwadi Party MLA and former minister of UP Amarmani Tripathi and his wife Madhumani Tripathi along with two other accused to life imprisonment in the much-publicised Madhumita Shukla murder case.

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Sitting Samajwadi Party MLA Amarmani Tripathi is taken to jail after the verdict in the Madhumita Shukla murder case in Dehra Dun Sitting Samajwadi Party MLA Amarmani Tripathi is taken to jail after the verdict in the Madhumita Shukla murder case in Dehra Dun on Wednesday.
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1998: Coimbatore Blasts
31 jailed, including chief of Al-Umma
Coimbatore, October 24
Thirty-one persons, including leaders of the banned Muslim extremist body Al-Umma, were sentenced to life today by the special court here for being the main conspirators in the serial bomb blasts that rocked this city nine years ago.        Syed Ahmed Basha


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1992 UP riots: Lifer for 15
Kanpur, October 24
Fifteen persons, including a lawyer, accused of burning nine persons alive in the communal riots that broke out here after the demolition of the Babri Mosque in December, 1992, were sentenced to life by a local court here today.

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SC orders release of mentally challenged undertrials
New Delhi, October 24
Taking note of a large number of mentally retarded undertrials languishing in jails or referred to mental asylums across the country, the Supreme Court today ordered the closure of cases against all those who had remained in judicial custody for more than the period of sentence prescribed for the offences committed by them.

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An IAF chopper, which had to carry relief material to the fire-ravaged village of Margi in the remote Marwah area of Kishtwar district, today left behind the essential commodities to carry politicians to the spot, official sources said.

Dawood man Noora killed in encounter
Lucknow, October 24
Third time proved to be unlucky for him. Lodged in Lucknow jail for the past two years, Noor Baksh, sharp shooter of Dawood Ibrahim gang, was shot down by the state police this morning when he tried to escape on way to the local court.

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