'Rarest of rare case': UP man awarded death sentence for raping, killing minor girl in Bulandshahr
July 27, 2023 10:15 ISTThe quantum of punishment was announced by a special POCSO court in Meerut which termed the case as "rarest of rare."
The quantum of punishment was announced by a special POCSO court in Meerut which termed the case as "rarest of rare."
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On August 9, a bench composed of Justices Talwant Singh and Siddharth Mridul also issued warrants for Malik's appearance before it.
As many as 56 people were killed and 246 injured after 20 bombs went off in different areas of Ahmedabad within a span of 70 minutes on July 26, 2008.
The boy's family is in hiding and many of the Hindu community in the conservative district of Rahim Yar Khan in Punjab province, have fled their homes after a Muslim crowd attacked a Hindu temple after the boy's release on bail last week.
The Centre Friday told the Supreme Court that President Ram Nath Kovind is seized of the matter pertaining to Balwant S Rajoana's plea seeking commutation of the death penalty awarded to him in former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh's assassination case, and a decision will be taken on it.
A special court at Anand in Gujarat sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a three-year-old girl after kidnapping her over three years ago.
A Delhi court Tuesday ordered hanging of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case triggering debate whether death sentence deters heinous crimes. While a section of experts hold a contrary view, there are those who favour the retention of capital punishment in the statute book.
As calls for hanging the rapists intensifies on the 7th anniversary of the gruesome Nirbhaya rape-and-murder case, there is a need to have a look at India's record on death penalties to convicts and their execution.
The clock is ticking. The four men convicted of raping and killing Nirbhaya in 2012 are nearing their ends. Soon, Form No. 42 or Black Warrant/Death Warrant will be issued by the concerned court.
Pawan Jallad, a hangman at the Meerut prison, said that he is ready to carry out the execution in the Tihar jail of the men convicted of raping and murdering Nirbhaya in 2012.
Anna Hazare claimed, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Since Aug. 14, 2005, not a single death penalty has been executed for a rapist.
Amid countrywide call for swift action against those guilty of rape, Andhra Pradesh is about to enact a new law that will give justice to the victims of these gruesome acts within 21 days. Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, on Monday, announced that new law to complete investigation in rape cases in one week and to get the death penalty for the culprits in 3 weeks will be brought in the state.
Sessions Judge Aparesh Chakraborty convicted Govind Singhal, his mother Kamala Devi and sister Bhawani on July 30 for Shweta Agarwal's murder. The court pronounced the quantum of punishment on Saturday.
The Bombay High Court on Monday commuted the death penalty of two convicts in the 2007 Pune BPO gang-rape and murder case to life imprisonment on the ground that there had been an inordinate delay in executing them.
A POCSO court in Angul on Friday awarded death penalty to a 20-year-old man for rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl when she was going to give food to her father, who was working in a farm.
The Rajasthan High Court has acquitted six lifers while upholding the death sentence to one and the life term to another in the 23-year-old case of a bomb blast in a bus at Samleti in Dausa district, in which 14 people were killed.
In a bid to combat rising cases of child sex abuse, a Bill for enhancing punishment, including a provision for the death penalty, for committing sexual crimes against children was introduced in Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
In a speedy judgment, a Bhopal court on Thursday awarded death sentence to a 35-year-old man for raping and killing a minor girl last month.
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