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  EC favours lifetime ban on convicts from contesting polls

  India | March 21, 2017 6:56 IST

  The Election Commission of India (ECI) told the Supreme Court on Monday that it is in favour of barring convicted persons from contesting polls for life and stopping their entry into judiciary and the executive. Currently, this ban is for six years.

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  Pakistan hangs two more convicts

  World | January 15, 2015 11:07 IST

  Islamabad: Two more convicts were hanged in Pakistan on Thursday taking the total number of executions to 19 since December last year, a media report said.The hangings took place at Karachi's Central Prison and Kot

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  Four more death-row convicts executed in Pakistan

  World | December 22, 2014 7:58 IST

  Islamabad: Four more death-row convicts were executed on Sunday in Pakistan for their involvement in an attack on former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf after the country lifted a ban on the death penalty following

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  Philippine court convicts 9 Chinese of poaching

  World | November 24, 2014 11:49 IST

  Manila: A Philippine court convicted nine Chinese fishermen Monday of poaching and taking hundreds of endangered giant sea turtles from a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, fining each of them nearly $103,000 but

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  Dec 16 gang rape: SC extends stay on two convicts' execution

  India | April 07, 2014 20:16 IST

  New Delhi: The Supreme Court today extended till April 14 the stay on the execution of death penalty of two of the four convicts in the December 16 gangrape and murder case, asking for copy

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  Rajiv assassination case: SC rejects plea against relief to convicts

  India | April 01, 2014 19:28 IST

  New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed a central government plea seeking recall of the the verdict by which it had commuted to life the death sentence of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination

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  Iranian supreme leader pardons 920 convicts

  World | April 01, 2014 7:05 IST

  Tehran: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pardoned or commuted prison terms of 920 convicts Monday, local media reported.he pardon was granted at the request of Iran's judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli-Larijani on the occasion

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  Patna HC acquits all 26 convicts in Laxmanpur Bathe massacre

  India | October 09, 2013 21:59 IST

  Patna: The Patna High Court today acquitted all the 26 men convicted in the Laxmanpur Bathe massacre of 1997 citing lack of evidence and witnesses. A lower court had convicted all these 26 accused and

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  Delhi gang rape: Damini's parents demand death penalty for all four convicts

  India | September 11, 2013 12:30 IST

  New Delhi: Parents of the December 16 gangrape victim today demanded death for all the four men, convicted by a Delhi court, saying justice will not be done if they are not hanged."We have been

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  Delhi gang rape: Court says, she was humiliated inside bus, convicts knew what they were doing

  India | September 11, 2013 12:29 IST

  New Delhi: Damini, the Delhi gang-rape victim was "humiliated" and beaten up inside the bus with the intention of causing death, a court here said Tuesday while holding four accused guilty of murder and gang-rape,

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  Damini gang rape: Political leaders demand death penalty for all four convicts

  Politics | September 11, 2013 10:48 IST

  New Delhi: Cutting across party lines, political leaders Tuesday demanded death penalty for the four convicts in December 16 gangrape case, saying the punishment should set a precedent so that nobody dares to even think

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  Mumbai blasts: Supreme Court rejects petition of 3 convicts seeking time for surrender

  India | April 16, 2013 15:57 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 16: The Supreme Court today rejected the petition filed on behalf of three Mumbai serial blast convicts - Zaibunissa Ansari,  Ishaque Mohammed and Sharif Abdul Ghafoor, seeking time for surrender to serve

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  After Kasab, death row convicts in the queue

  India | November 22, 2012 17:34 IST

  New Delhi: Thanks to the hush-hush manner in which he was executed on Wednesday shortly after the rejection of his mercy petition, Ajmal Kasab had been denied his right to challenge the President's decision. Whatever

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  Hang All Godhra Convicts, Demands VHP

  India | February 25, 2011 17:48 IST

  Allahabad, Feb 25: Expressing dissatisfaction over the acquittal of many key accused in Godhra case, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad today demanded death sentence for all the convicts in the train burning incident "to prevent recurrence