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Uttarakhand HC comes to aid of US woman serving jail term for entering India without visa
The high court came to the woman s rescue after her lawyer argued that the punishment given to her by the lower court was out of proportion to her crime.
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NAINITAL: The Uttarakhand High Court has reduced the four-year jail term of a woman from the USA caught for coming to India without valid documents to eleven months in prison.
On a petition by US citizen Farida Malik challenging a lower court judgement sentencing her to four years in jail, a bench of Justice R C Khulbe on Wednesday reduced her imprisonment to eleven months in jail, already served by her.