Week's other stories : 4th to 10th October

• Karnataka crisis : [seat distribution :BJP : 117,Congress : 73,JDS : 28 and Independants:6]

What is the crisis: Some BJP MLA's have turned rebels and have withdrawn their support to the BJP government citing corruption charges against the chief minister Yeddurappa Reddy.He has time till the 12th Oct to prove his majority.

• Judgement in the Priyadarshini Mattoo case : 

The Supreme Court on Wednesday commutted the death sentence of Santosh Kumar Singh, the main accused in the 1996 Priyadarshini Mattoo rape and murder case, saying “if the court itself feels some difficulty in awarding one or the other, it is only appropriate that the lesser sentence should be awarded”.
The “difficulty” in giving the death sentence to Singh is the fact that he was “a young man of 24 at the time of the incident and, after acquittal, had got married and was the father of a girl child”, said the Bench led by Justices Harjit Singh Bedi and C K Prasad.

For the chronology of events in the Matto case check this link : http://engquizzitive.blogspot.com/2010/10/priyadarshani-mattoo-case-chronology-of.html

• Pratibha Murthy case : Cab driver Shiva Kumar, 34, was on Wednesday found guilty of murdering BPO employee Pratibha Srikanth Murthy. Justice BV Gudli, the presiding officer of the 11th fast track court, would pronounce the quantum of sentence on Friday.
  The court found Kumarguilty of kidnapping, raping and murdering the 24-year-old employee of GlobalSoft, the BPO of Hewlett-Packard, on December 13, 2005

If I have missed any major events of this week in this post please post them in the comments section of the post.