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SC to reassess Rajoana plea forcommutation of death penalty
The Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to reassess a petition filed by Balwant Singh Rajoana seeking the commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment.
Updated on Sep 26, 2024 07:54 AM IST
Utkarsh Anand, New Delhi
Amritsar man gets death penalty for daughter’s rape, murder
Convict Partap Singh of Lakhuwal village in Baba Bakala has also been fined ₹1.5 lakh by a fast-track court.
Published on Aug 29, 2024 10:37 PM IST
Surjit Singh, Amritsar
Rajoana case: SGPC to write to Prez in last-ditch effort
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Friday resolved to make a last-ditch attempt by writing to the President to decide on its petition pertaining to the case of Balwant Singh Rajoana, the death row convict in CM Beant Singh assassination case.
Updated on Aug 17, 2024 05:58 AM IST
Surjit Singh, Amritsar
Utah Supreme Court overturns death sentence for man convicted of murder
Utah Supreme Court overturns death sentence for man convicted of murder
Published on Jul 26, 2024 03:46 AM IST
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Yemen's powerful tribal leaders are key to jailed Nimisha Priya's release
A unique aspect of Yemen's culture is the significant influence wielded by tribal leaders. Convincing them and gaining favour in a case like this is not easy.
Published on Jun 21, 2024 09:15 PM IST
Exercising mercy as a Constitutional duty: What is the law?
What does the law say about Presidential power to decide mercy pleas? How has this constitutional power developed over the years?
Published on Jun 18, 2024 08:06 PM IST
Woman awarded death penalty for stabbing mother-in-law 90 times
24-year-old woman in Madhya Pradesh sentenced to death for brutally killing her mother-in-law with an iron pan and a sickle in 2022.
Updated on Jun 12, 2024 12:28 AM IST
Shruti Tomar, Bhopal
MP woman who stabbed mother-in-law 100 times sentenced to death: Rewa prosecutor
Rewa public prosecutor Vikas Dwivedi said the victim’s husband, who was arrested for conspiracy in the case, was acquitted
Updated on Jun 11, 2024 05:32 PM IST
Yemen’s Houthis sentence 44 to death on charges of collaboration with a Saudi-led coalition
Yemen’s Houthis sentence 44 to death on charges of collaboration with a Saudi-led coalition
Published on Jun 01, 2024 10:08 PM IST
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Laila Khan murder case: Actor’s stepfather gets death penalty
Parvez Iqbal Tak sentenced to death for murdering actress Laila Khan and her family in a barbaric manner, considered rarest of rare case by court.
Updated on May 25, 2024 06:48 AM IST
Rutuja Gaidhani
13 years after Laila Khan's murder, Mumbai court sentences stepfather to death
Before they went missing, the Khans were last seen with Tak, Laila's mother Shelina's third husband, in Igatpuri
Published on May 24, 2024 02:38 PM IST
Rutuja Gaidhani
Kerala HC upholds death sentence in 2016 rape and murder of law student
The Kerala high court on Monday upheld the death sentence given by a trial court to Muhammed Ameer ul-Islam, the lone convict in the 2016 rape and murder of a 30-year-old law student in Ernakulam district of the state
Updated on May 21, 2024 08:32 AM IST
Vishnu Varma, Kochi
Kerala HC upholds death sentence for Assam man for rape, murder of Dalit law student
The Ernakulam Principal District and Sessions Court had in December 2017 found Ameer-ul-Islam guilty of various offences
Published on May 20, 2024 03:24 PM IST
4 ‘Axle gang’ members get death penalty in 2016 Nuh double murder, gangrape
CBI special judge Rajeev Goyal pronounced the quantum of sentence against convicts Hemant Chauhan, Munna alias Ayan Chauhan, Lambu alias Vinay and Jai Bhagwan alias Setu
Updated on May 05, 2024 05:56 AM IST
Shailee Dogra, Panchkula
Court sentences Ludhiana woman to death for killing neighbour’s child
On the day of the killing, Kaur abducted Dilroz from a lane near her home at 2.15pm, driving the toddler on a scooter 13 kilometers away to Salem Tabri, where she buried her alive in a pre-dug pit
Updated on Apr 19, 2024 06:26 AM IST
Tarsem Singh Deogan, Ludhiana
Punjab crime: Ludhiana woman gets death penalty for burying toddler alive
38-year-old woman kidnapped, murdered two-and-a-half-year-old daughter of neighbour, who is a police constable, after an argument with his family three years ago
Updated on Apr 18, 2024 04:56 PM IST
Truong My Lan: All you need to know about Vietnamese tycoon sentenced to death
Truong My Lan, the Vietnamese tycoon, is facing the death penalty for siphoning off an amount of $12.5 billion, nearly 3 per cent of Vietnam's 2022 GDP.
Updated on Apr 11, 2024 05:55 PM IST
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Court awards death penalty to POCSO culprit
Court of Additional Sessions Judge and District Judge gave death sentence to a man in a case of rape, kidnapping and murder of minor under POCSO Act
Updated on Mar 23, 2024 09:00 AM IST
Nadeem Inamdar
Pakistani student gets death sentence over ‘blasphemous’ WhatsApp messages
A 22-year-old student was sentenced to death in Pakistan on blasphemy charges for WhatsApp messages that a court ruled contained derogatory words
Updated on Mar 09, 2024 10:49 AM IST
POCSO court sentences transgender person to death for rape, murder of girl child
The court held that the barbaric and inhuman way the offence was committed has made it a ‘rarest of rare case’
Published on Feb 28, 2024 03:28 PM IST
Rutuja Gaidhani
Punjab and Haryana high court acquits father, uncle of girl’s murder over inter-caste relationship
The girl, a first-year student and resident of a village under police station Jandiala Guru in Amritsar, was found dead at her house on September 12, 2012
Updated on Feb 22, 2024 08:46 AM IST
Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
From Qatar jail to India, the pursuit of freedom
The arrest in August 2022 of eight retired Indian naval personnel presented a major challenge to India's diplomacy and a threat to its friendly ties with Qatar.
Published on Feb 17, 2024 09:55 PM IST
Kanwal Sibal
Qatar frees Indian Navy veterans: 'PM Modi personally supervised developments'
Soon after the announcement of the release of the Navy veterans, New Delhi announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Qatar on February 14.
Updated on Feb 12, 2024 09:19 PM IST
How Indian Navy veterans, released by Qatar, reacted after arriving in Delhi
Qatar frees 8 Indian Navy veterans: Relieved to walk free from jail, the seven former Navy officers raised chants of “Bharat Mata ki Jai” at the Delhi airport.
Updated on Feb 12, 2024 10:56 AM IST
Qatar frees 8 Indian Navy veterans: Who are they? Why it's India's win?
Indian Navy veterans freed: On December 28, a Qatar court commuted the death sentences awarded last October and sentenced them to prison.
Updated on Feb 12, 2024 10:53 AM IST
The bloody trail of retaliatory political murders in Kerala
15 men were sentenced to death for killing a BJP leader, drawing attention to Kerala's scourge: 125 such killings have been committed between 2006 and 2021
Updated on Feb 05, 2024 09:23 PM IST
Kerala BJP leader’s murder: Judge who awarded death penalty gets threats; 4 held
One of the accused was arrested on Wednesday, while the other two were held on Thursday, a senior police officer said.
Updated on Feb 02, 2024 01:20 AM IST
HT Correspondent, Kochi
MP court sentences man to death for killing two minor nieces after raping one
The dead bodies of the two sisters, aged 3 and 5 years,were found from a canal on April 4, 2022 and in the postmortem report, it was found that the elder one was raped before the murder
Published on Feb 01, 2024 08:45 PM IST
Monica Pandey
Kerala court awards death sentence to 15 PFI members in BJP leader’s murder case
All the 15 accused in the case, who were members of the now-banned extremist outfit Popular Front of India and its political arm Social Democratic Party of India, were convicted by the court on January 20
Published on Jan 30, 2024 12:51 PM IST
BJP's Ranjith Sreenivasan murder: 15 Kerala PFI workers get death sentence
The Kerala court on Tuesday gave death sentences to 15 PFI-affiliated men convicted of killing BJP leader Ranjith Sreenivasan.
Updated on Jan 30, 2024 01:46 PM IST