High Profile Cases Death penalty for rape and murder of 3-year-old girl December 20, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Odishas Keonjhar district on Thursday sentenced a man to death penalty for rape and murder of a three-year-old girl. Additional District Court-cum Special Court Judge Lokanath Sahu pronounced capital punishment to 20-year-old Sunil Kumar Naik after convicting him for rape and murder of the minor girl on January 13, 2017. Naik was […] Read more » death penalty
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Hate crime in Rajasthan now punishable by death penalty August 7, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The bill on hate crimes also provides punishment for holding assemblies to condemn inter-caste, inter-community marriages in the name of family honour. The Rajasthan assembly passed two bills on Monday in which death penalty has been proposed for hate crimes against couples in the name of honour & tradition, & life imprisonment for mob lynching. […] Read more » death penalty Hate crime in rajasthan
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Man awarded death penalty, wife gets life term in murder case August 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Rajasthan’s Kota has awarded death sentence to a man and life imprisonment to his wife in a five-year-old robbery and murder case here. An additional district judge [ADJ] on Wednesday pronounced the verdict, holding the man guilty of looting and murdering a couple at their home in the city and his wife […] Read more » death penalty murder case wife gets life term
Top Law News 27% in award of death penalty in 2017: NLU report January 30, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment 2017 saw a significant drop of nearly 27 per cent in award of death penalty by sessions courts but showed an increase in number of convicts sent to gallows for murders involving sexual violence, a report published by the National Law University (NLU) said. The report titled ‘Death Penalty in India, Annual Statistics for the […] Read more » 27% in award of death penalty in 2017 death penalty featured National law university NLU report NLU) sexual violence in 2017
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases Jigisha murder: HC commutes death penalty to 2 to life term January 4, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today commuted the death penalty awarded to two convicts in the 2009 Jigisha Ghosh murder case to life imprisonment. A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and I S Mehta, however, upheld the life imprisonment awarded to the third convict by a trial court in the case. “We commute death sentence awarded […] Read more » death penalty death penalty to life term Delhi High Court today featured HC commutes death penalty to 2 to life term Jigisha murder Justice I.S. Mehta Justice S. Muralidhar life term
High Profile Cases Red Fort attack case: SC to rehear convict Arif’s plea January 19, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the plea of Mohammad Arif, the lone death row convict in the 2000 Red Fort attack case, for a fresh hearing of his dismissed review petition in the open court. A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice T.S. Thakur modified the apex court’s September 2, 2014 verdict by […] Read more » death penalty featured Mohammad Arif Red Fort attack case Red Fort attack case: SC to rehear convict Arif's plea Supreme Court
Top Law News Rape, murder of 4-yr-old girl: Convict moves SC June 6, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on Tuesday the appeal of a 48-year-old man awarded death penalty by the Rajasthan High Court for abducting, raping and killing his four-year-old neighbour at Sriganganagar in 2012. Besides the convict, his juvenile son also took part in the offence of rape and murder of the minor. […] Read more » abduction death penalty murder news Rajasthan rape Sriganganagar Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news
Criminal Law News Bhullar’s wife moves SC for stay on execution of death penalty May 7, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: 1993 Delhi blast convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar’s wife on Tuesday approached the Supreme Court seeking stay on execution of his death sentence till her review plea against its verdict is decided. She submitted in her plea that she has filed a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict of April 12 in which the court had rejected […] Read more » death penalty death sentence death sentence to life imprisonment Delhi high court in 2002 Devinderpal Singh Bhullar Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's wife Khalistan Liberation Force President Pratibha Patil Supreme Court Youth Congress president M S Bitta
Criminal Law News Man gets death penalty for killing three siblings May 6, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court has awarded death penalty to a man for abducting and killing three three minor siblings in February 2011 in Ratnapur town of the district here in Bilaspur. First additional district and sessions judge Neeta Yadav yesterday sentenced – Manoj Suryawanshi – to death for abducting and killing the children from his neighbourhood. According […] Read more » abducting and killing abducting and killing of minor Bilaspur death penalty rape of minor Ratnapur town Suryawanshi
Criminal Law News All hopes shattered: Bhullar’s wife April 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on All hopes shattered: Bhullar’s wife The wife of Khalistani terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, whose plea to commute death sentence to life term was on Friday dismissed by the Supreme Court, said all her hopes have been shattered after an 18-year wait and questioned why he had been “singled out”. “The court did not consider our point. We were hopeful that […] Read more » 1993 Delhi bomb blast death penalty Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar M.S. Bitta Supreme Court Supreme Court rejection Youth Congress
Criminal Law News SC upholds Memon death sentence, blames Pakistan March 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Death sentence has been awarded to Yakub Memon by the Supreme court here in Delhi today. Yakub was the person who involved in the 1993 Mumbai serial blast conspiracy with Dawood Ibrahim and other absconders in the conspiracy and blamed Pakistan for involvement. A bench comprising Justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan noted that the conspiracy […] Read more » 1993 mumbai serial blast B S Chauhan Dawood Ibrahim death penalty death sentence justices P Sathasivam mumbai blast Mumbai serial blast conspiracy Supreme Court TADA court Yakub Memon
Top Law News 1993 Mumbai blasts: SC to pronounce verdict tomorrow March 21, 2013 / March 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The verdict of Supreme court will pronounce in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts in which 100 people were convicted out of which 12 were awarded death penalty and 20 were given life sentence by a TADA court. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan will also decide the appeal of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt […] Read more » 1993 Mumbai blasts Air-India Building at Nariman Point at Worli opposite Century Bazaar anti-terror law Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act Bombay Stock Exchange building CBI Dawood Ibrahim death penalty Hotels Sea Rock Juhu Centaur TADA court TADA court order Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act Tiger Memon
