Death Penalty
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Rajasthan HC frees 6 lifers, upholds death penalty to one in Samleti bomb blast case
India | Jul 23, 2019, 09:50 PM ISTThe 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.
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Bill on death penalty for child sex abuse introduced in Rajya Sabha
India | Jul 18, 2019, 06:13 PM ISTIn 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.
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Minor's rape-murder: Bhopal court awards death penalty to man within 32 days
India | Jul 11, 2019, 05:05 PM ISTIn 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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Sri Lanka awaits Sirisena's order to end 40-year moratorium on death penalty
World | Jun 27, 2019, 01:38 PM ISTPresident Sirisena on Wednesday signed the death warrants to hang four drug convicts, ending a four-decade-long moratorium on the capital punishment in Sri Lanka. The last execution in Sri Lanka was 43 years ago.
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Acid attack: HC upholds man's conviction, but commutes death penalty
India | Jun 12, 2019, 04:00 PM IST"The conviction under IPC Sections 302 (murder) and 326 (b) (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by use of acid) is upheld. The death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment," the bench said.
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Man awarded death penalty for 'waging war against country'
India | Dec 15, 2018, 10:30 PM ISTAdditional district sessions judge of Bongaon fast track court, Binoy Kumar Pathak, passed the death sentence after finding Samir guilty of the charges against him.
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Shimla: 3 awarded death sentence for abduction, murder of 4-year-old Yug
India | Sep 05, 2018, 03:29 PM ISTYug murder case: The skeletal remains of the boy were found in a water tank at the Keleston locality two years later on August 22, 2016, leading to widespread protests across the town. The child was tortured and starved before being thrown in tank.
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After MP, Rajasthan, Haryana, now Uttarakhand to bring in law for death penalty to rapists of minor girls
India | Jul 13, 2018, 09:41 AM ISTThe legislation will be introduced in the next session of the state Assembly, said Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat.
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Madras High Court confirms death sentence for techie on charges of rape and murder of seven-year-old girl
India | Jul 10, 2018, 06:29 PM ISTThe crime had triggered a public outcry and Dhasvanth had faced the ire of a group of women, who assaulted him when he was brought to the lower court for trial.
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Supreme Court upholds death penalty of Nirbhaya gang-rape convicts: Who said what
India | Jul 09, 2018, 05:14 PM ISTNirbhaya gang-rape verdict| The Supreme Court on Monday reaffirmed its verdict upholding the death sentence to four convicts who gang-raped and murdered Nirbhaya.
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J&K Guv promulgates ordinance for death penalty to child rapists
India | May 17, 2018, 03:46 PM ISTUnder the new law, committing rape on a woman under sixteen years of age has been made punishable with rigorous imprisonment for twenty years and may extend to a life sentence, which shall mean the remainder of that person’s natural life.
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Govt introduced death penalty for child rape to ensure justice to our daughters: PM Modi in Madhya Pradesh
India | Apr 24, 2018, 04:18 PM ISTStressing on education to children, the prime minister said that representatives of all panchayats should ensure that not a single child in village is bereft of education.
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Death penalty no deterrent: Four rape cases reported in UP in a single day despite new stringent laws
India | Apr 23, 2018, 07:55 AM ISTThe Union Cabinet on Friday approved an ordinance to allow courts to award the death penalty to those convicted of raping children up to 12 years of age.The President of India gave his go ahead to the same on Sunday.
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Process underway to ensure death penalty for child rape under POCSO Act, Centre tells SC
India | Apr 21, 2018, 06:28 AM ISTThe Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that the process to amend the penal law to introduce death penalty to those convicted of sexually abusing children up to 12 years of age has been initiated.
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Kathua rape-murder case: Maneka Gandhi to ask for death penalty for child rape
India | Apr 13, 2018, 04:50 PM ISTInvestigations have revealed that the girl was held in a temple, drugged, repeatedly raped and finally murdered to scare the nomadic Muslim community out of the village.
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Execution date set for first Indian-origin death-row prisoner in US
World | Jan 11, 2018, 06:32 PM ISTRaghunandan Yandamuri was given death penalty in 2014 for kidnapping and killing a 61-year-old elderly Indian woman and her 10-month grand-daughter. It was seen as part of a botched kidnapping-for-ransom plot.
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Jigisha Ghosh murder case: Delhi High Court commutes death penalty of 2 convicts to life term
India | Jan 04, 2018, 12:09 PM ISTThis comes almost two years after the court awarded death penalty to Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla for kidnapping and killing IT professional Jigisha Ghosh in Delhi.
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SC notice to Centre on plea against mode of execution of death sentence, seeks response in three weeks
India | Oct 06, 2017, 04:12 PM ISTThe plea said that Article 21 of the Constitution also includes the right of a condemned prisoner to have a dignified mode of execution.
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Yogi Adityanath govt clears proposal to add death penalty in hooch death cases
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Salman Khan’s father Salim Khan speaks on Kulbhushan Jadhav's death penalty
Bollywood | Apr 13, 2017, 09:28 AM ISTAfter veteran actor Rishi Kapoor and singer, Salman Khan’s father Salim Khan opened up and expressed his opinion on Kulbhushan Jadhav’s death penalty.