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SA top court rejects ex-tennis star’s bid to appeal rape conviction

The Constitutional Court rejected Hewitt’s challenge on the grounds that “it lacks prospects of success”, meaning that the former tennis great has exhausted all legal avenues of appeal. Prior to lodging his appeal at the Constitutional Court, Hewitt, 76, had a similar application rejected by the Supreme Court of Appeal in June. He was convicted in May last year after Read More


special court questions NIA clean-chit to Sadhvi Pragya, rejects her bail application

COMING down heavily at the country wide investigation company (NIA) for now not investigating the function of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur inside the 2008 Malegaon blasts case and recording once more the statements of witnesses recorded by means of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), a special court Tuesday discovered there had been affordable grounds to consider that the costs in Read More