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  Dying declaration cannot be sole basis for conviction: SC warns while acquitting death-row convict

  India | August 27, 2023 9:00 IST

  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.

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  Death row convict Shabnam meets son, urges him to study

  India | February 22, 2021 11:13 IST

  The 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 | September 07, 2020 17:47 IST

  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.

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  Supreme Court: Death row convict may be heard in open court

  India | September 02, 2014 11:15 IST

  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

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  Make delay a criteria for deciding mercy petition, says SC

  India | February 19, 2014 7:20 IST

  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

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  German bakery blast: Death row convict Himayat Baig seeks fresh probe after Yasin Bhatkal's revelation

  India | September 16, 2013 13:18 IST

  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

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  Death row convict Bhullar mentally not fit to be hanged, say lawyer, doctor and jail official

  India | April 13, 2013 7:06 IST

  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