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SC asks Centre if death row convicts can pick execution method

The Union government had in an earlier affidavit maintained that hanging remained the “safest and quickest” method of execution.

Updated 270 days ago

CM assassination: Why Rajoana not hanged till now, SC asks after Centre says serious offence

CM assassination: Why Rajoana not hanged till now, SC asks after Centre says serious offence

Published 292 days ago

‘In touch with friendly governments’: MEA on Nimisha Priya case

Randhir Jaiswal’s remarks come days after the Centre on Friday informed the Supreme Court that efforts to secure a pardon for Nimisha Priya should be undertaken solely by her family

Updated 356 days ago

Will seek community’s consensus on withdrawing Rajoana’s mercy plea: SGPC

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami during a meeting in Amritsar on Monday. (HT Photo)

Published 433 days ago

SGPC delegation meets Rajoana, slams Centre for delay in mercy plea decision

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Harjinder Singh Dhami, comes out of the Patiala Central Jail after meeting with convict Balwant Singh Rajoana on Friday. (ANI)

Published 436 days ago

US President Joe Biden commutes sentences for 37 of 40 federal death row inmates

Joe Biden's move comes ahead of US Presidenti-elect Donald Trump's inauguration in January 2025.

Published 567 days ago

Death row convict Rajoana calls for Sikh unity to fight ‘conspiracy’

Balwant Singh Rajoana (centre), a death row convict in the Beant Singh assassination case, attending the prayer meet of his brother, Kulwant Singh, at a gurdwara in Ludhiana on Wednesday. The high court granted him a three-hour parole to attend the ceremony. (HT Photo)

Published 600 days ago

Beant case: SC puts on hold its order to President’s secy on Rajoana plea

Balwant Singh Rajoana is convicted in the 1995 assassination case of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. A special court sentenced Rajoana to death in July 2007. (HT file photo)

Published 602 days ago

Balwant Singh Rajoana shoots off letter to home minister Amit Shah

Balwant Singh Rajoana

Updated 922 days ago

SAD leaders stopped from meeting Rajoana: SGPC chief slams ‘autocratic attitude’ of govt

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami (HT file)

Updated 951 days ago

SAD leaders Majithia, Valtoha not allowed to meet Rajoana in Patiala jail

Former Punjab minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikramjit Singh Majithia leaves after he was barred from meeting Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict in the 1995 assassination of former chief minister Beant Singh, at Central Jail in Patiala on Monday. (ANI)

Updated 951 days ago

Executive meeting: Won’t withdraw Rajoana mercy petition, says SGPC

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami (C) addresses a press conference in Amritsar on Sunday. (Sameer Sehgal/HT)

Updated 952 days ago

SGPC executive meet: Take quick decision on Rajoana plea: SGPC to Centre

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee president Harjinder Singh Dhami (C) addressing a press conference in Amritsar on Thursday. (Sameer Sehgal/HT)

Updated 955 days ago

SGPC chief meets Rajoana amid hunger strike threat

The meeting comes in the backdrop of Rajoana’s threat to go on a hunger strike if his mercy petition, which was filed by the SGPC in March 2012, is not withdrawn. (HT File)

Updated 957 days ago

Kerala nurse on death row: Yemeni family agrees to accept compensation

Nimisha Priya is from Palakkad district in Kerala. (File)

Updated 1542 days ago

Supreme Court commutes death sentence to allow rape convict’s reformation

Taking into consideration the brutal nature of the crime, the Supreme Court bench was open to the convict’s death sentence being commuted to a life sentence. (ANI)

Updated 1545 days ago

'I love my mother': Shabnam's son to President to commute her death sentence

Shabnam and Saleem were arrested within days of the murders and were sentenced to death by the trial court in 2010, which was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2015.

Published 1970 days ago

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