Shankaracharya gets two more weeks in jail
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The Kanchipuram court on Friday ordered Jayendra Saraswathi to remain in jail for two more weeks in connection with the murder of a temple official, dashing hopes of millions of devotees that he would get bail.
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Jail system could implode in two weeks, says union.
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The 200th and last rioter to be sentenced after the 2001 violence in Bradford is jailed for two and a half years.
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Sentencing for Sanjay Kumar who admitted he led a $2.2 billion accounting fraud will be postponed to resolve disputed facts.
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A militant convicted of role in the bomb attacks on Bali island and Jakarta was sentenced to a relatively lenient jail term of 10 years by the South Jakarta District Court here Tuesday.
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Japanese financier and shareholder activist Yoshiaki Murakami was jailed for two years on Thursday after being found guilty of insider trading.
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Bollywood actor Salman Khan will now have to spend at least two more   nights at the central jail here as the Rajasthan High Court Monday deferred the hearing of his   revision and bail plea till Wednesday.
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The son of a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation and 600 hours of community service on two drug convictions.
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Federal prosecutors sought two life sentences Tuesday for a militant abortion opponent already serving 25 years to life for murdering a doctor who performed abortions.
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A court Tuesday sentenced a leader of an extremist group known as the Mad Crowd to 3 1/2 years in prison for hate crime attacks on foreigners, the judge said.
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Australian police are granted two more days to hold an Indian doctor in connection with failed UK terror plots.
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A judge who sparked outrage when he sentenced a repeat sex offender to two months in jail said Friday he will retire.
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The former number two buyer for the US Air Force is sentenced to nine months in jail for corruption.
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Former investment banker Frank  Quattrone was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 months in prison,  two months more than the harshest recommended penalty, for  obstructing probes into suspected kickbacks involving some of  the hottest stock offerings of the 1990s.
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A Dutch judge Friday ordered the detention for two weeks of the exiled founder of the Philippine communist insurgency, Jose Maria Sison, suspected of ordering the murder of rivals.
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A college business professor who allegedly punished one of his children by covering the boy with ants and putting pepper juice in his eyes has been sentenced to two years in prison for child abuse.
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Former investment banker Frank Quattrone was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 months in prison, two months more than the harshest recommended penalty, for obstructing probes into suspected kickbacks involving some of the hottest stock offerings of the 1990s.