Criminal Justice

The ruling compels the facility to enable confidential, free, and unmonitored outgoing legal telephone calls for people held there. It also bars enforcement of advance-scheduling requirements for attorney visits, permitting lawyers to visit without prior approval.

The announcement shifts enforcement emphasis from targeting individual leaders to disrupting gangs' financial networks. That makes traceable financial evidence required for reward eligibility and increases scrutiny of intermediaries and transaction channels supporting the gangs.

Courts are prohibited from imposing most custodial sentences of up to one year and must instead issue suspended sentences unless a specified or exceptional circumstance applies. Judges may now suspend sentences up to three years and can defer sentencing for up to 12 months, which reduces immediate short-term prison admissions. Defendants likely to receive suspended sentences will also be less likely to be held on remand.

The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI took control of two Handala-associated domains and replaced site content with a seizure banner. Domains now under U.S. control prevent Handala from using those sites to publish claimed hacks or dox and are intended to disrupt ongoing malicious cyber operations. The seizure announcement states the domains were used to support malicious activity on behalf of a foreign state actor, increasing attribution and legal constraints on those specific infrastructure points.

Enforcement Directorate prosecuted the Faridabad-based SRS group under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act for alleged cheating and defrauding investors, homebuyers and banks of ₹2,216 crore. ED restored immovable properties worth ₹650 crore to 2,312 homebuyers and is verifying remaining claims from homebuyers, banks and other institutions. Prosecution proceedings are continuing before a special court; ED is taking steps for attachment, recovery and confiscation of proceeds of crime. ED secured non-bailable warrants, detained one accused who was brought to India on November 1, 2025 and lodged in Neemka Jail, Faridabad, and has initiated extradition proceedings for a co-accused reported to be in Georgia.

Chen Zhi was arrested in Cambodia in January and extradited to China, Beijing confirmed on 8 January. The US has indicted Chen on alleged multibillion-dollar fraud and the US Department of Justice seized $15bn in bitcoin linked to him. Singapore seized S$500m and Taiwan seized more than T$5.5bn in assets allegedly related to Prince Group. The Jin Bei casino in Sihanoukville is shuttered with its signage covered and its doorway blocked.

The Bill criminalizes conversions secured by coercion, fraud, inducement or marriage. Conversions effected through marriage carry imprisonment of seven years and a fine of ₹1 lakh. Conversions involving a minor, a person of unsound mind, a woman or a person belonging to Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes carry imprisonment of seven years and a fine of ₹5 lakh. Mass conversions are punishable by seven years' imprisonment and a ₹5 lakh fine; repeat offenders face up to ten years' imprisonment and a ₹5 lakh fine.

The court declined to take cognisance of the Enforcement Directorate's prosecution complaint under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The court ordered detachment of all properties attached by the ED. The court found the allocation letter did not confer a direct financial benefit because no mining lease was executed and no coal was extracted. The court held the ED cannot treat subsequent commercial transactions, including a ₹3.08 crore share receipt, as proceeds of crime absent a demonstrable nexus with the scheduled offence; the accused had earlier been convicted by a CBI judge in 2016.

Cedric Ricks was convicted and sentenced to death for the May 2013 killings of Roxann Sanchez and her eight-year-old son. He is scheduled to receive a lethal injection after 6pm Central at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. The US Supreme Court issued a brief order rejecting his final appeal about potential racial exclusion of jurors roughly nine hours before the scheduled execution. Earlier appeals alleging ineffective counsel and seeking suppression of evidence were previously denied.

A Calcutta High Court division bench ordered the man to be set free forthwith and directed the State to make efforts for his repatriation to Bangladesh. The court noted the maximum punishment for a juvenile under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act is seven years. The man was arrested on February 8, 2005, and has been in custody since February 2005. An enquiry report submitted by the additional district and sessions judge, Basirhat, including an ossification test, determined he is 36 years old at present and was a minor at the time of arrest.

The ruling was issued on March 6, 2026, and concerns Celia Ramos, a 34-year-old mother of three. The court found she was coerced into sterilisation against her will during a 1990s campaign of forced sterilisations. It stated the procedure caused an allergic reaction that led to her death. The court ordered Peru to pay $340,000 to her family. The ruling noted the government failed to initiate and conduct a thorough investigation into the case.

Gholam Hosseini Mohseni Ejehei made the comments in an interview on Iranian state television. He said “riot cases” remain a priority, referring to January’s nationwide protests that Iran violently suppressed. He said those who “cooperate with the enemy in any way” will be considered an enemy. He said those who say or do anything aligned with “the will of America and the Zionist regime” are on the enemy’s side and will be dealt with under “revolutionary, Islamic principles” in wartime. He indicated that cooperating with an enemy can carry execution if convicted.