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Wednesday, January 7, 2026
TopicConviction

Topic: conviction

Why Allahabad HC threw out plea challenging Rahul Gandhi’s MP status despite SC stay on conviction

Petitioner argued that Congress leader stood disqualified from being chosen or continuing as MP under Article 102 & R.P. Act after Gujarat court sentenced him for defamation in 2019.

Acquitted in 2002, convicted in 2024: Why SC quashed Punjab & Haryana HC order in 1998 murder case

Reiterating 'settled principles of law', SC held that interference with an acquittal is permissible only when the trial judge’s findings are 'perverse and impossible.

Donald Trump, 1st felon in the White House. What’s ‘unconditional discharge’ & sentence’s significance

Trump was convicted last May in a hush money case, which revolves around charge he falsified business records to cover up payments to a former adult performer before 2016 election.

Donald Trump’s conviction in hush money trial — what the case was about & what happens next

New York jury found that former US President had falsified records in scheme to influence his 2016 Presidential elections. Despite conviction, Trump can still contest Presidential polls.

As Mukhtar & Afzal Ansari are convicted, story of a UP power clan & its fall from nationalism to gangsterism

Mukhtar Ansari was convicted under Gangster Act by a special court today along with his MP brother Afzal. The clan’s decline from heroism to crime & its three-decade journey littered with bodies.

Ghazipur court convicts Mukhtar Ansari under Gangsters Act, sentences him to 10 yrs in jail

The verdict comes four years after a CBI court acquitted Mukhtar and his brother Afzal in the 2005 murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai. 

On Camera

Hindu leaders have been backward-looking. It started with Gandhi

Indian leaders take pride in 'persons of Indian origin' who run American companies. They forget that this is the result of Macaulay’s vision.

Underlining sluggish exports, NITI Aayog flags need to jump-start India’s automotive market

Govt think tank flags India’s skewed auto export mix, warns domestic focus and high tariffs are limiting its global footprint; also highlights how auto components are a bright spot.

S-300, Su-30 jets, T-72 tanks: Inventory of Venezuela’s largely Russian-origin arsenal

Venezuela also boasts of a diverse portfolio of unmanned aerial vehicles capable of carrying out surveillance, reconnaissance and being employed for kinetic purposes as well.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.