The Centre Friday told the Supreme Court that President Ram Nath Kovind is seized of the matter pertaining to Balwant S Rajoana's plea seeking commutation of the death penalty awarded to him in former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh's assassination case, and a decision will be taken on it.
A special court at Anand in Gujarat sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a three-year-old girl after kidnapping her over three years ago.
A Delhi court Tuesday ordered hanging of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case triggering debate whether death sentence deters heinous crimes. While a section of experts hold a contrary view, there are those who favour the retention of capital punishment in the statute book.
As calls for hanging the rapists intensifies on the 7th anniversary of the gruesome Nirbhaya rape-and-murder case, there is a need to have a look at India's record on death penalties to convicts and their execution.
The clock is ticking. The four men convicted of raping and killing Nirbhaya in 2012 are nearing their ends. Soon, Form No. 42 or Black Warrant/Death Warrant will be issued by the concerned court.
Pawan Jallad, a hangman at the Meerut prison, said that he is ready to carry out the execution in the Tihar jail of the men convicted of raping and murdering Nirbhaya in 2012.
Anna Hazare claimed, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Since Aug. 14, 2005, not a single death penalty has been executed for a rapist.
Amid countrywide call for swift action against those guilty of rape, Andhra Pradesh is about to enact a new law that will give justice to the victims of these gruesome acts within 21 days. Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, on Monday, announced that new law to complete investigation in rape cases in one week and to get the death penalty for the culprits in 3 weeks will be brought in the state.
Sessions Judge Aparesh Chakraborty convicted Govind Singhal, his mother Kamala Devi and sister Bhawani on July 30 for Shweta Agarwal's murder. The court pronounced the quantum of punishment on Saturday.
The Bombay High Court on Monday commuted the death penalty of two convicts in the 2007 Pune BPO gang-rape and murder case to life imprisonment on the ground that there had been an inordinate delay in executing them.
A POCSO court in Angul on Friday awarded death penalty to a 20-year-old man for rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl when she was going to give food to her father, who was working in a farm.
The Rajasthan High Court has acquitted six lifers while upholding the death sentence to one and the life term to another in the 23-year-old case of a bomb blast in a bus at Samleti in Dausa district, in which 14 people were killed.
In a bid to combat rising cases of child sex abuse, a Bill for enhancing punishment, including a provision for the death penalty, for committing sexual crimes against children was introduced in Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
In a speedy judgment, a Bhopal court on Thursday awarded death sentence to a 35-year-old man for raping and killing a minor girl last month.
President Sirisena on Wednesday signed the death warrants to hang four drug convicts, ending a four-decade-long moratorium on the capital punishment in Sri Lanka. The last execution in Sri Lanka was 43 years ago.
"The conviction under IPC Sections 302 (murder) and 326 (b) (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by use of acid) is upheld. The death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment," the bench said.
Additional district sessions judge of Bongaon fast track court, Binoy Kumar Pathak, passed the death sentence after finding Samir guilty of the charges against him.
Yug murder case: The skeletal remains of the boy were found in a water tank at the Keleston locality two years later on August 22, 2016, leading to widespread protests across the town. The child was tortured and starved before being thrown in tank.
The legislation will be introduced in the next session of the state Assembly, said Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat.
The crime had triggered a public outcry and Dhasvanth had faced the ire of a group of women, who assaulted him when he was brought to the lower court for trial.
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