By Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, October 17th, 2023WASHINGTON: Immigration officials in New York City have apprehended an international fugitive wanted in Brazil for prosecution for the crime of active corruption of a public official. The 32-year-old Pakistani citizen and permanent resident of Brazil was held outside his home in Queens, the New York Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) service said. The service, which is affiliated with the US Department of Justice, did not name the…
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by ik Asad in Dawn, October 15th, 2023• Over 18,000 criminal cases pending• 80pc acquittal rate in rape cases due poor investigation, out-of-court settlements• 661 convicts acquitted by higher courts due to flawed prosecution, archaic lawsISLAMABAD: The pendency of criminal cases in the federal capital has exceeded 18,000, with a majority of the suspects going scot-free as a result of archaic laws, weak prosecution, and flawed investigation. According to court statistics, currently, 9,369 criminal cases…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha & Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 23, 2023Police on Tuesday recommended prosecuting 238 people including former ministers, senior bureaucrats and middlemen in the infamous Lalita Niwas land grab scam on charges of organised crime and forgery of government documents. The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police submitted its investigation report to the District Attorney’s Office Kathmandu, which will now decide how many of them will be prosecuted. The…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 8, 2023Lawyers representing the defendants in the Bhutanese refugee scam started a debate on Wednesday questioning the ‘selective’ prosecution in the case. After government lawyers concluded their arguments on Tuesday on whether to remand the defendants in the Bhutanese refugee scam, those representing the defendants presented their arguments. They argued that the defendants have been charged without adequate evidence and only based on the statements of a select few…