The West Bengal Assembly passed a new legislation called the Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024. This bill aims to make the state a safer place for women and children, especially in the wake of a tragic incident that occurred at RG Kar Medical College.
Kangana Ranaut says in countries like Saudi Arabia, those who commit crimes against women are hanged to death at intersections. We need to set similar examples in India.
The Centre on Friday said it will send an advisory to all states to take precautionary steps to check crime against women in the wake of the murder of a veterinarian in Hyderabad.
Sirisena said on Wednesday he was committed to bringing back capital punishment for drug offenders, months after vowing a tougher line on spiraling narcotics-related crime.
The 193-member UN General Assembly Friday adopted the resolution ‘Towards torture-free trade: examining the feasibility, scope and parameters for possible common international standards’ by a recorded vote of 81 in favour to 20 against, with 44 abstentions.
A special CBI court announced the sentence against Koli, the domestic help of Noida businessman Moninder Singh Pandher.
“If such incidents of rape with girls below 12 prove to be true, we will make an act of capital punishment for the accused in this session”, Khattar said.
Raigarh (Chhattisgarh): A fast-track court here today sentenced a 23-year-old man to death for sexually assaulting and murdering a three-year-old girl. Additional District and Sessions Judge Yogesh Pareek convicted Lochan Srivas, a resident of
Riyadh: In an unprecedented spike in country's capital punishment, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is on course of executing over 100 people in first six months of 2016. The human right watchdog Amnesty International has warned
New Delhi: The Home Ministry is likely to reject Law Commission's recommendation for abolition of death penalty, maintaining that time was not ripe yet to remove it completely from the statute book keeping in mind
Islamabad: Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain on Friday rejected appeals for clemency of six death row prisoners from the Sindh provice, media reported.Following the rejection of the mercy pleas, the Home Department of Sindh ordered the
Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday lifted a ban on capital punishment in terrorism cases, a day after 132 children were slaughtered by Taliban guerrillas in an army-run school here.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif revoked the ban on
Dhaka: Bangladesh's Supreme Court today upheld the death sentence handed down to a fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami stalwart for committing mass murder and crimes against humanity during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan.The four-member Appellate Division of
New Delhi, Dec 18: Members cutting across party lines in Lok Sabha today condemned that Delhi bus gangrape incident as "shameful" and demanded capital punishment for rapists. Even the Speaker Meira Kumar herself described the
New Delhi, May 12: Taking a cue from the Supreme Court which favoured death sentence to those found guilty of honour killings, a Delhi court, in the first such case, has awarded capital punishment to
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