Death Row Convict
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Dying declaration cannot be sole basis for conviction: SC warns while acquitting death-row convict
India | Aug 27, 2023, 09:00 AM ISTWhile 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.
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Death row convict Shabnam meets son, urges him to study
India | Feb 22, 2021, 11:13 AM ISTThe 12-year-old son of Shabnam Ali, a death row convict lodged in Rampur jail, has met his mother.
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Sri Lanka's death row convict MP allowed to attend Parliament session
World | Sep 07, 2020, 05:47 PM ISTA 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.
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Supreme Court: Death row convict may be heard in open court
India | Sep 02, 2014, 11:15 AM ISTNew 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
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Make delay a criteria for deciding mercy petition, says SC
India | Feb 19, 2014, 07:20 AM ISTNew 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
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German bakery blast: Death row convict Himayat Baig seeks fresh probe after Yasin Bhatkal's revelation
India | Sep 16, 2013, 01:18 PM ISTNew 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
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Death row convict Bhullar mentally not fit to be hanged, say lawyer, doctor and jail official
India | Apr 13, 2013, 07:06 AM ISTNew 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