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Address ‘core issues’ in Kulbhushan Jadhav case, India tells Pakistan
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 08, 2020 09:53 PM IST
Earlier this week, India missed a second deadline set by the Islamabad high court to appoint a lawyer to Jadhav for filing the appeal. Islamabad has said he can be represented only by Pakistani lawyers whereas New Delhi has insisted on appointing an Indian lawyer or a Queen’s Counsel.
Omar Sheikh’s death sentence for US journalist’s murder overturned by Pak court
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON APR 02, 2020 12:17 PM IST
Omar Sheikh is expected to walk out free soon since he has already spent 18 years in jail. The Pakistan court had commuted his death sentence to 7 years in prison
Dummy executions done, Tihar officials say prepared to hang Dec 16 convicts
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAR 19, 2020 06:47 AM IST
The families of three of the four death row convicts had met them in the recent days, which could possibly be their last meetings. Only Akshay’s family members, who live in Muzaffarpur in Bihar, have not met him.
Delhi gang-rape convict’s wife files for divorce over stigma
By Avinash Kumar | Hindustan Times, Patna
UPDATED ON MAR 17, 2020 05:38 PM IST
Three other convicts of the case have now approached the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a stay on their hanging.
Judge refuses to stop execution of 4 Delhi gangrape convicts, gets another plea
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAR 02, 2020 06:20 PM IST
A court on January 7, 2020, issued the death warrant against four convicts and scheduled their execution on January 22. The execution date was postponed twice, first to February 1 and then to March 3 due to the convicts not having exhausted their remedies.
SC stays death warrant in Gujarat rape-murder case
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON FEB 21, 2020 12:45 AM IST
Anil Surendrasingh Yadav was sentenced to death by a special court in July 2019 under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, or POCSO.
Supreme Court tweaks rules to fast-track appeals in death row cases
By Murali Krishnan | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON FEB 15, 2020 01:37 AM IST
The order states that as soon as an appeal involving a death penalty is filed, a communication will be sent to the concerned high court by the Supreme Court registry calling for the original records of the case within sixty days. This includes translation of documents which are in vernacular language.
PSO held guilty of killing judge’s family, sentence on Friday
By Leena Dhankhar | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON FEB 08, 2020 04:07 PM IST
Charges were framed against Mahipal Singh under sections 302 (murder) and 201(destruction of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 27 of the Arms Act on January 9, 2019, for the double murder
The growing peril of drug-resistant superbugs
By Priyanka Pulla | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON FEB 05, 2020 09:25 PM IST
Many in India face a similar fate – they get admitted to hospitals with seemingly treatable illnesses, only to contract HAIs caused by superbugs.
In ten-page order, judge explains why staying gang rape convicts’ hanging was necessary
By Richa Banka | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JAN 31, 2020 07:46 PM IST
The mother of the 2012 Delhi gang rape victim expressed her anguish after the execution of the death warrant was stayed by the court and feared that it may be delayed indefinitely. She asked the government to order the carrying out of the hanging.
‘Convicts will never be executed’: Mother of the Delhi gang rape victim breaks down
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 05, 2020 11:54 PM IST
Asha Devi’s reaction follows a Delhi court decision to stay the execution of Delhi gang rape convicts on Friday evening till further orders. The convicts were supposed to be hanged on February 1.
Supreme Court to hear Delhi gang rape convict Akshay Thakur’s plea seeking to commute death sentence
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JAN 30, 2020 09:30 AM IST
Akshay has questioned why the alternative of life imprisonment without parole until the end of natural life was foreclosed in his case.
December 16 gang rape convicts in Tihar Jail on suicide watch
By Prawesh Lama | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JAN 25, 2020 06:45 AM IST
Prison officials said on condition of anonymity that Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Kumar Gupta (25), Akshay Thakur (31) and Vinay Sharma (26), who were moved on January 16 to Tihar’s Jail No 3, where the death sentence will be carried out, are on “suicide watch” the likes of which Tihar has never seen before.
Decoding six death warrants of 2019: How courts dealt with execution sentences
By Murali Krishnan | Hindustan times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JAN 19, 2020 11:49 AM IST
A death warrant sets a date for the hanging of a death row convict and is one of the final steps in the execution of a convict. It is usually issued after a convict has exhausted all legal remedies.
Court sentences 4 to death in Jaipur serial blasts case
By Jaykishan Sharma | Hindustan Times, Jaipur
UPDATED ON DEC 21, 2019 08:48 AM IST
Seventy one people were killed in a series of nine bomb blasts that ripped through the Walled City on May 13, 2008.
The judiciary-military tangle in Pakistan
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON DEC 18, 2019 07:25 PM IST
Its different power centres are asserting themselves. There is uncertainty ahead
SC orders status quo on Bhullar’s release on Guru Purb
By Indo-Asian News Service | Hindustan Times, New Delhi, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON DEC 17, 2019 11:39 PM IST
Hawara acquitted in 95’ RDX recovery case
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh, Ludhiana
PUBLISHED ON NOV 23, 2019 01:26 AM IST
Apart from RDX, police had recovered an AK 56 rifle, one wireless walkie-talkie from near Budhhah Nullah in Kundanpuri area allegedly on the disclosure of Hawara after his arrest in a bomb blast case on December 23, 1995
Why the Supreme Court must rethink capital punishment
By Gautam Bhatia
UPDATED ON OCT 18, 2019 07:34 PM IST
It is the only form of punishment where human subjectivity and human error can never be atoned for
India moves to assuage Sikhs, derail Pakistan’s Khalistan and Kashmir plan
By Shishir Gupta | New Delhi, Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 30, 2019 08:33 AM IST
Officials said that this follows close on the heels of the virtual eradication of a 35-year-old “black list” that prevented 312 members of the Sikh community holding foreign passports from travelling to India due to their alleged role during the militant Khalistan movement in Punjab.
Relief for death row prisoner, 8 others on 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev
By HT Correspondent | New Delhi
UPDATED ON SEP 28, 2019 05:07 PM IST
Also, to commemorate 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi so far 1424 prisoners have been released by states and Union Territories in 2 phases (2nd Oct 2018 & 6th April 2019). Third phase of release is due on 2nd Oct 2019.
POCSO court awards death sentence to man for raping, murdering minor
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Jaipur
UPDATED ON SEP 27, 2019 03:58 PM IST
Rajasthan POSCO courts award death and life sentences to two convicts in separate cases involving minors.
26-year-old man sentenced to death in Odisha for rape, murder
By Debabrata Mohanty | Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar
PUBLISHED ON SEP 19, 2019 07:41 PM IST
The death sentence is 4th such ruling in the last two months under the POCSO Amendment Act in Odisha which has the provision of capital punishment in rape cases involving girls under 12 years of age.
Kulbhushan Jadhav’s quest for justice
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 03, 2019 06:36 PM IST
India’s challenge now is in getting Pakistan to review his conviction and sentence.
Kulbhushan Jadhav to get consular access. A look at key points from UN court verdict
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 02, 2019 11:02 AM IST
Kulbhushan Jadhav case: Kulbhushan Jadhav was arrested by Pakistani security agencies in Balochistan on March 3, 2016, and charged with involvement in spying and subversive activities.
Tripura men gets death sentence for raping & murdering a minor.
By Priyanka Deb Barman | Hindustan Times, Agartala
UPDATED ON AUG 22, 2019 10:06 PM IST
Tripura man was given a death sentence and two life sentences for raping and murdering a minor in North Tripura
Bombay high court acquits man on death row for boy’s kidnapping and murder; clears accomplice
By Kanchan Chaudhari | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON AUG 14, 2019 02:52 PM IST
The bench also acquitted his purported accomplice Azad Mehrunddula Ansari, 28, for want of satisfactory evidence.
‘Without fear of reprisal’: India responds to Pak on Jadhav’s consular access
By HT Correspondent | New Delhi
UPDATED ON AUG 02, 2019 02:06 PM IST
A response from the Pakistani side to the Indian response is awaited, sources said. The Pakistani side had proposed that consular access could be granted at 3 pm on Friday.
SC upholds death to man for raping girl, killing brother
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON AUG 02, 2019 07:48 AM IST
Justices RF Nariman and Surya Kant confirmed Manoharan’s death sentence while justice Sanjiv Khanna dissented saying the case did not fall under the rarest of the rare category to warrant capital punishment.
Bombay HC commutes death sentence of 2 in Pune rape-murder case
By Kanchan Chaudhari | Hindustan Times, Mumbai
UPDATED ON JUL 30, 2019 09:37 AM IST
A Justice BP Dharmadhikari-led division bench sentenced the convicts, Purushottam Borate, 38, and Pradeep Kokade, 30, to 35 years in prison, which will include period already undergone.
