While considering a criminal appeal, a bench of Justices BR Gavai, JB Pardiwala and Prashant Kumar Mishra said that courts are required to satisfy themselves that the dying declaration is reliable and truthful before placing any reliance upon it.
The 12-year-old son of Shabnam Ali, a death row convict lodged in Rampur jail, has met his mother.
A Sri Lankan lawmaker from the ruling party, who was elected to Parliament while serving a death sentence in a murder case, was on Monday allowed to attend the parliamentary sittings by a court.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that in the cases where the death sentence has been upheld by the apex court, the death convict will have a right that his petition seeking review
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the government to include delay as a criteria in deciding the mercy petition of a death row convict.Pointing out that the government has set out certain criteria for
New Delhi: In the backdrop of arrest of Yasin Bhatkal, alleged founder of Indian Mujahideen, condemned convict in German Bakery blast case, Himayat Baig has approached Bombay High Court seeking reinvestigation into his case by
New Delhi, Apr 12: Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, whose petition against the president's rejection of his mercy plea in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast case was dismissed by the Supreme Court, needs more
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