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"Baazigar" actor Dalip Tahil has been sentenced two months jail, in 2018 drunk driving case. Notably, in 2018, Tahil was accused of ramming his car into an auto rickshaw in the upscale Khar suburbs of Mumbai, which had resulted into a woman being seriously injured. Tahil was convicted in the case by a magistrate court in the city on the basis of evidence of being alcoholic, confirmed by doctor.

A Tamil Nadu court convicted and sentenced Rajesh Das, the former Special Director-General of the state's police force, to three years imprisonment. On June 16, the court bench announced verdict in a sexual harassment case filed by a junior officer in February 2021. Das was also fined Rs 10,000. The court in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram also imposed a fine of Rs 500 on cop who stopped FIR of the crime.

A special MP/MLA court sentenced BJP legislator Vikram Saini and 11 others to two years imprisonment in a 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case. On October 11, a Special Judge Gopal Upadhyay convicted them for rioting and other offences and also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each. In addition, the court acquitted 15 other accused in the case for lack of evidence.

Madurai Special Court, announced life imprisonment to 10 people convicted in 2015 Tamil Nadu Dis-honor Killing Case, on March 8. Gokulraj, a 21-year-old Dalit boy, an engineer was killed for having a relationship with an upper caste woman and was dumped on Namakkal railway tracks. Furthermore, last week, the special court had convicted ten people and acquitted five under the horrific case of honor killing.

A London-based author Shrabani Basu will launch a book - The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer - that involves a British Indian George Edalji wrongly convicted of a crime in the 20th century. Based on a true story, the case was investigated by Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle. Interestingly, this was the only real-life crime that was investigated by Arthur. Reportedly, the book is slated to release on March 10.