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PUTRAJAYA: A contractor has escaped the death penalty after he succeeded in his appeal to set aside his conviction and death sentence for drug trafficking.

PUTRAJAYA: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and 1MDB’s former CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy’s acquittal in the alleged tampering of the auditor-general’s audit report on 1MDB will remain as the prosecution failed to meet deadlines to continue the appeal against the duo’s acquittal.

NOBEL laureate Maria Ressa has welcomed her fifth acquittal on the tax evasion cases filed against her.

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia: Malaysias Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld the acquittal of former prime minister Najib Razak of audit tampering in relation to the multibillion dollar looting of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) state fund, though he remains in prison for other graft charges.

PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has upheld the prison sentence on the youth found guilty of killing 23 people in a fire at the Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah Tahfiz Centre in 2017.

While upholding the acquittal of five accused persons in 2015 in a murder case registered way back in 1998, the Delhi High Court has cautioned the Delhi Police and Uttar Pradesh Police for conducting...

PUTRAJAYA: A sales manager who was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and causing the death of a policeman and injuring another remains a free man as the Court of Appeal here set aside the prosecution's application for extension of time to file its notice of appeal.

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has acquitted and discharged Kinabatangan MP Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin and wife Datin Sei Zizi Izzette following the granting of a revision application to drop all graft charges against them.

KUALA LUMPUR: An appeal for a total acquittal for all 47 graft charges involving Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi will be filed by the defence team, says lead counsel Datuk Hisyam Teh Poh Teik.

The Punjab & Haryana High Court recently acquitted a man sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for allegedly committing sodomy on a 14 years old boy.“the effect(s) of the victim completely resiling from...