New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI): The Delhi High Court upheld the conviction and life sentence of a man accused of raping his one-year-old niece in 2012. The High court also observed that offences against minors, particularly sexual assault, are on the rise. The court stressed that the victim, in this case, is one year old.

New Delhi [India], August 23 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday set aside the conviction of five members of a family, including a woman for the murder of a person, giving them the benefit of doubt. The court also quashed the life imprisonment awarded to all the convicts.

New Delhi Nov 30 PTI The Delhi High Court Tuesday said that society is losing faith in the system due to delinquency which has to be dealt with a stern handThe high court which was dealing with the appeals against the conviction and life sentences of the accused in a murder case also observed that safety is paramount for people to lead a good dignified life and even if one life is lost it is an irreparable loss of the nationA bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Anup Jairam Bhambhani dismissed the appeals in the case in which the two accused had murdered a 25-year-old factory worker while robbing his mobile phoneThe bench said before parting with the case it would be trite to note that the present is an extremely unfortunate case where a young boy who worked hard in order to make ends meet tragically lost his life because of the menace created by the delinquents of society Safety and security of the people are axiomatically paramount for them to lead a good dignified life Owing to delinquency society is losing faith in the system The offenders thus need to be dealt with with a stern hand Even one life lost is an irreparable loss we bear as a nation forever the court observed as it dismissed the two appeals for being without any meritDealing with the facts of the case the court noted that one night in July 2012 when the witness and the deceased who worked at a factory of slippers were returning from work the appellants accused approached them on a motorcycle and forcibly searched the pocket of the witnessThey subsequently snatched and robbed the mobile phone of the victim and one of them contemporaneously stabbed the victim on his thigh it addedThe court stated that in the present case the homicidal death of the deceased was not in dispute and the testimony of the witness that the deceased victim had been stabbed in the thigh with a knife -- corroborated the medical evidence as well as the statements made by the police officialsIt said there was no shadow of a doubt that the bodily injury inflicted by the appellants was sufficient to cause death in the ordinary course of nature and was not caused accidentally but with intention and motive to rob the mobile phone of the deceased victimIt can reasonably be concluded that the prosecution has successfully proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Appellants in order to commit robbery attacked the victim and PW-3 witness robbed the mobile phone of the victim and stabbed him with a knife causing his unfortunate death at the young age of 25 years the court ruledAssailing the trial court judgement which convicted and sentenced them for murdering the deceased the appellants argued that there was no light at the spot of the incident and therefore the witness could not have possibly seen any of the alleged assailantsPTI ADS RKS RKS

New Delhi [India], October 12 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Tuesday upheld the trial court judgement sentencing a man to life imprisonment for murdering a youth of 18-19 years of age, motivated by a grudge.