Nirbhaya gang-rape verdict| The Supreme Court on Monday reaffirmed its verdict upholding the death sentence to four convicts who gang-raped and murdered Nirbhaya.
Under the new law, committing rape on a woman under sixteen years of age has been made punishable with rigorous imprisonment for twenty years and may extend to a life sentence, which shall mean the remainder of that person’s natural life.
Stressing on education to children, the prime minister said that representatives of all panchayats should ensure that not a single child in village is bereft of education.
The Union Cabinet on Friday approved an ordinance to allow courts to award the death penalty to those convicted of raping children up to 12 years of age.The President of India gave his go ahead to the same on Sunday.
The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that the process to amend the penal law to introduce death penalty to those convicted of sexually abusing children up to 12 years of age has been initiated.
Investigations have revealed that the girl was held in a temple, drugged, repeatedly raped and finally murdered to scare the nomadic Muslim community out of the village.
Raghunandan Yandamuri was given death penalty in 2014 for kidnapping and killing a 61-year-old elderly Indian woman and her 10-month grand-daughter. It was seen as part of a botched kidnapping-for-ransom plot.
This comes almost two years after the court awarded death penalty to Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla for kidnapping and killing IT professional Jigisha Ghosh in Delhi.
The plea said that Article 21 of the Constitution also includes the right of a condemned prisoner to have a dignified mode of execution.
After veteran actor Rishi Kapoor and singer, Salman Khan’s father Salim Khan opened up and expressed his opinion on Kulbhushan Jadhav’s death penalty.
India has vehemently opposed a UN resolution that calls for enforcing a moratorium on the death penalty.
Islamabad: A total of 332 militants and criminals have been executed in Pakistan after the troubled nation lifted a six-year moratorium on death penalties following the ghastly attack on school children in Peshawar on December 16, 2014,
New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today demanded abolition of death penalty, describing it as an "aberration in a healthy democracy".Raising the issue during Zero Hour, he said hanging people does not deter crime and
Islamabad: Pakistan today hanged another nine prisoners convicted of murders, bringing the total number of executions to more than 260 since December when the government ended its six-year moratorium on the death penalty following the
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
New Delhi: Law Commission, which is said to be in favour of abolishing death penalty except in terror-related cases, will present its report on the issue to the government on Monday.A draft report of the
New Delhi: Rising incidents of kidnapping and abduction for ransom not only by ordinary criminals but even by terrorists necessitate a stringent punishment for those indulging in such activities, the Supreme Court has said while
Panaji: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh today asked why the government didn't show the kind of urgency shown in Yakub Memon's case when it came to those convicted in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.The Supreme Court
New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharror's condemnation of death penalty after 1993 Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon's execution invited much criticism, not only from Bhartiya Janta Party but his own party as well.BJP strongly supported
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