Top Law News PIL in Supreme Court for release of Afzal’s body February 19, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on PIL in Supreme Court for release of Afzal’s body A petition was filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the government for handing over Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s body to his family and for laying down guidelines on the issue of relatives’ claims over bodies of executed prisoners. The PIL also sought judicial interpretation of the right to claim bodies of […] Read more » advocate Sanobar Ali Qureshi advocateAmbika Ray Afzal Guru death penalty Islamic rituals NGO Garib Nawaz Jail Victim Welfare Society Parliament attack Supreme Court Supreme Court of India Supreme Court petition Tihar Jail
Criminal Law News Mum High Court to hear death confirmation case of rapist from Jan 22 January 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In Sangli district of Maharashtra in June 2010, a 24-year-old convict, sentenced to death for raping and killing a nine-year-old girl has been produced before the Bombay High Court which decided to hear arguments on confirmation of sentence from next week. A division bench of Justices N H Patil and A R Joshi directed the police […] Read more » Bombay High Court death penalty jail in pune Justices N H Patil and A R Joshi labourer in a farm Sangli district of Maharashtra Yerwada jail in Pune
Top Law News Supreme Court for death sentence to life in brutal murder case December 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The death sentence of a convict has commuted by the Supreme Court has commuted, who had brutally killed a woman and raped and injured her relative, to life imprisonment on the ground that he was drunk and not in proper state of mind at the time of committing the offence. A bench of justices Swatanter Kumar […] Read more » brutal murder death penalty justices Swatanter Kumar and Madan B Lokur pertaining to death sentence Section 354(3) of the CrPC Supreme Court
Top Law News ”Take these men off death row” July 7, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prabha Sridevan In no fewer than 13 cases, the Supreme Court has held the death sentence to have been wrongly given. The mistakes must be corrected before it’s too late. With a dark and chilling feeling we recently read about the wrong Carlos who was executed in the United States for a crime he […] Read more » capital punishment controversy regarding death sentence death death penalty death row controversy death sentence decisions on death penalty execution of death sentence supreme court judgement on death penalty
Criminal Law News Death penalty for 10 people for honour killing June 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment At least 10 members of a family were sentenced to death by a local court for killing an 18-year-old girl, her lover and the lover’s brother in 2008. Vijaya, 18, her lover Udai Pal Singh and Singh’s brother Satyabhan were killed in Pilkathra village in Etah in November 2008. Vijaya’s father Ramesh Pal, along with […] Read more » death penalty honour killing Udai Pal
Criminal Law News Man gets death for killing daughter June 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court here Wednesday awarded death penalty to a man for killing his teenaged daughter in 2009 over her love affair, police said. “Additional District Judge Kamini Pathak gave the death sentence to Shaukat Saifi, who beheaded his 15-year-old daughter in June 2009 over her love affair with a youth in Kirmicha village,” police […] Read more » death penalty
Top Law News Award death penalty in staged shootout cases: Supreme Court May 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court said Friday that staged shootouts involving contract killings by policemen should be counted in the category of rarest of rare cases and those found guilty should be sentenced to death. “We are of the view that in cases where a fake encounter is proved against policemen in a trial, they must be […] Read more » Award death penalty Justice Gyan Sudha Misra Justice Markandey Katju staged shootout cases Supreme Court
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases 26/11 attacker Kasab’s death penalty upheld February 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court Monday upheld the death sentence awarded to Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab for his role in the 26/11 attack, closing another chapter in one of the most watched legal trials in the world and hailed as a triumph of the Indian legal system. A division bench of Justice Ranjana Desai and […] Read more » 26/11 Ajmal Amir Kasab Bombay High Court death penalty Fahim Ansari Home Minister P. Chidambaram Justice R.V. More Justice Ranjana Desai Kasab lawyer Farhana Shah Pakistani terrorist Sabahuddin Ahmed Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam upheld