Current Scenario On Death Penalty In Light Of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
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Current Scenario On Death Penalty In Light Of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Live Law  

India has in the past voted against a draft resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on the abolition of the death penalty. As per Sec 22 of BNSS, a sentence of death may be passed by: A High Court A Sessions Judge or Additional Sessions Judge subject to the confirmation by the High Court. EXECUTION OF DEATH SENTENCE Chapter XXXIV A of BNSS deals with the execution procedures of death sentences after confirmation/order by the High Court. Similarly, Sec 454 provides that when the High Court has passed a death sentence, either in appeal or revision, the duty to enforce it has been casted on the Court of Sessions. Sub-section provides that a convict under a death sentence, or their legal heir or relative, may file a mercy petition before the President of India under Article 72 or the Governor of the State under Article 161 of the Constitution within thirty days of being informed by the Superintendent of the jail about the dismissal of their appeal, review, or special leave to appeal by the Supreme Court, or about the confirmation of the death sentence by the High Court after the allowed time for appeal has expired.

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Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) And Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Monthly Digest– November 2024
1 month ago

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) And Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Monthly Digest– November 2024

Live Law  

Supreme Court: Jail Superintendents Should Make Special Efforts To Identify Women Prisoners Eligible For Release U/s. Jammu & Kashmir High Court: Approaching HC For Bail U/S 483 BNSS Without Approaching Trial Court Unnecessarily Burdens HC: J&K High Court Case Title: Ajeet Kumar Vs UT Of J&K Citation: 2024 LiveLaw 320 Criticising the growing trend of directly approaching the High Court …

Nithari Killings: Should Surendra Koli's Acquittal Be Reversed? Supreme Court Agrees To Hear CBI's Plea
5 months ago

Nithari Killings: Should Surendra Koli's Acquittal Be Reversed? Supreme Court Agrees To Hear CBI's Plea

ABP News  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a fresh petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation challenging the Allahabad High Court's verdict that acquitted Surendra Koli in the sensational 2006 Nithari serial killings case. In May, the Supreme Court also agreed to hear another plea filed by the father of one of the victims challenging the high court's …

Odisha man gets death penalty for murdering wife
5 months, 1 week ago

Odisha man gets death penalty for murdering wife

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: A Bhubaneswar court has awarded death sentence to a man for murdering his wife on June 9, 2022. The court of 2nd Additional Sessions Judge Bandana Kar said the death penalty is subject to confirmation from the Orissa High Court. Sanjeet Das, the convict, had murdered his wife Saraswati inside their house in Ghatikia within Bharatpur police limits a …

Exercising mercy as a Constitutional duty: Pardon for death sentence: What is the law?
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Exercising mercy as a Constitutional duty: Pardon for death sentence: What is the law?

Hindustan Times  

After a person is convicted of an offence, and the court holding it to be the rarest of the rare cases, passes a death sentence, justice does not rest. Justice is not merely in the passing of an adequate sentence but encompasses due process, which includes the convict’s right to appeal the sentence within the given legal framework – confirmation, …

Supreme Court rejects plea seeking expert committee to examine viability of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court rejects plea seeking expert committee to examine viability of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

India TV News  

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain plea seeking directions for constituting an expert committee to examine, assess, identify the viability of the three new criminal laws including Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023. The three laws, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, will come into effect from July 1, 2024. The CJI …

Yes Milord, the process is often punishment
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Yes Milord, the process is often punishment

Hindustan Times  

The two-judge bench SC order clearing a person charged with abetting the suicide of his wife 30 years ago is noteworthy for two reasons. One, it has stressed an important principle that should guide law officers while invoking stringent provisions, in this specific case, Section 306 of the IPC. Two, the comment the Court made on the judicial process that …

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Prescribes Lesser Punishment To Doctors For Causing Death By Negligence Vis-A-Vis Other Offenders
1 year ago

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Prescribes Lesser Punishment To Doctors For Causing Death By Negligence Vis-A-Vis Other Offenders

Live Law  

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023, the bill which seeks to replace the Indian Penal Code 1860, has carved out a special classification for doctors in relation to the punishment for causing death by medical negligence. While the Sanhita enhances the punishment for causing death by negligence to imprisonment up to 5 years, if such death is caused by a doctor, …

Parliamentary panel on criminal law Bill leaves decision on death penalty to Centre
1 year, 2 months ago

Parliamentary panel on criminal law Bill leaves decision on death penalty to Centre

The Hindu  

The proposed Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, 2023 that seeks to replace the British-era Indian Penal Code has increased the number of crimes which can attract the death penalty from 11 to 15, according to a parliamentary panel report published last week. According to the panel’s report, the domain experts consulted by the committee “deliberated at great length about the need …

Indian justice system will be decolonised: Judge
1 year, 4 months ago

Indian justice system will be decolonised: Judge

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Justice Bollam Vijaysen Reddy of the Telangana High Court said the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, can decolonise the Indian justice system. Justice Reddy pointed out that penal laws serve as instruments to uphold various interests in line with the constitutional vision and evolving societal perceptions. He highlighted the significant changes brought about in the Indian criminal justice system by …

Capital punishment for mob lynching under new Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill
1 year, 5 months ago

Capital punishment for mob lynching under new Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill introduced in the Lok Sabha on Friday to replace the colonial-era Indian Penal Code has incorporated a specific provision for mob lynching and stipulated punishment ranging from seven years in jail to the death penalty for those convicted of the crime. Experts have in the past said that in the backdrop of mob lynching cases, …

Death penalty for gangrape: Govt bid to replace British-era laws. Key Highlights
1 year, 5 months ago

Death penalty for gangrape: Govt bid to replace British-era laws. Key Highlights

Live Mint  

On the last day of the monsoon session of the Parliament, Union Home Minister Amit Shah introduced three bills in the Lok Sabha that will replace the Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act. The three bills the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, and the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023 will …

Evolution of jurisprudence around capital punishment, its procedures
1 year, 9 months ago

Evolution of jurisprudence around capital punishment, its procedures

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court last month decided to test the validity of hanging by the neck as the method of executing death sentence in India, stating that the method can be declared unconstitutional if there is scientific material favouring a different method of execution as less painful and “more consistent with human dignity”. Over the years, there has been a constant …

Abolition is the way: The Hindu Editorial on the higher judiciary’s move on the death penalty
1 year, 9 months ago

Abolition is the way: The Hindu Editorial on the higher judiciary’s move on the death penalty

The Hindu  

Forty years after holding that the mode of executing prisoners by hanging cannot be termed too cruel or barbaric, the Supreme Court of India has now ventured to find out if there is a more dignified and less painful method to carry out death sentences. The idea of finding an alternative mode of execution, one considered less painful and involves …

Uphold dignity in death penalty
1 year, 9 months ago

Uphold dignity in death penalty

Hindustan Times  

There are layers upon layers in the judicial debate on capital punishment — the efficacy and ethics of administering the death penalty, the adequacy of procedural safeguards, the choice of the most humane way to execute a person, and even the moral argument — but at its heart rests the motivation to safeguard the dignity of the life that is …

SC asks govt. for data on death by hanging and a possible alternative mode of execution
1 year, 9 months ago

SC asks govt. for data on death by hanging and a possible alternative mode of execution

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on March 21 asked the Centre to provide data which may point to a more dignified, less painful and socially acceptable method of executing prisoners other than death by hanging. The Court indicated to the Centre, represented by Attorney General R. Venkataramani, that it needed some underlying data based on which it could examine if there was …

Explained: How India saw the highest number of death penalties in 2022
1 year, 11 months ago

Explained: How India saw the highest number of death penalties in 2022

Firstpost  

According to the report ‘Death Penalty in India, Annual Statistics Report, 2022,’ trial courts across India imposed 165 death sentences in 2022, the most in a single year in the last two decades New Delhi: Trial courts across the country imposed 165 death sentences in 2022, which is the highest in a single year in the last two decades, a …

165 Death Sentences Awarded By Trial Courts In 2022, Highest Ever In A Year Since 2000 : Project 39A Report
1 year, 11 months ago

165 Death Sentences Awarded By Trial Courts In 2022, Highest Ever In A Year Since 2000 : Project 39A Report

Live Law  

In 2022, trial courts imposed the largest number of death sentences in a single year since 2000 while the death row population was the highest it has been since 2004. Overview of Death Sentences In 2022, trial courts imposed death sentences on 165 persons - the largest number of death sentences imposed in a single year in over two decades …

Why India needs a rethink before expanding scope of death penalty
2 years, 2 months ago

Why India needs a rethink before expanding scope of death penalty

Firstpost  

It is crystal clear the graph of number of death sentences dips amazingly as the cases get referred up Put yourself in the shoes of a rape and murder victim’s parents. But while the Delhi High Court had given the death punishment calling the accused “predators”, the Supreme Court exonerated all three defendants for the 2012 rape and murder of …

The death penalty and humanising criminal justice
2 years, 2 months ago

The death penalty and humanising criminal justice

The Hindu  

As a conservative agency of the state, the Supreme Court of India is ordinarily expected to tread the path laid out by the written text of law and the binding precedents. On policies and uniformity The focus here is on reframing ‘Framing Guidelines Regarding Potential Mitigating Circumstances to be Considered While Imposing Death Sentences’, a decision authored by the three …

DC Edit | SC move to set guidelines on death penalty welcome
2 years, 3 months ago

DC Edit | SC move to set guidelines on death penalty welcome

Deccan Chronicle  

The decision of the Supreme Court to set up a Constitution Bench to lay down guidelines for the courts on providing a convict a real and meaningful hearing before deciding on a death penalty is a refreshing step that will further civilise the criminal justice delivery system in our country. The only protection a person can have against incarceration or …

Death Penalty: SC Refers to 5-judge Bench Case on Framing Guidelines on Mitigating Circumstances
2 years, 3 months ago

Death Penalty: SC Refers to 5-judge Bench Case on Framing Guidelines on Mitigating Circumstances

News 18  

The Supreme Court on Monday referred to a five-judge Constitution bench a suo motu plea on framing of guidelines on how and when potential mitigating circumstances be considered by courts during trial in cases which entail the death penalty as the maximum punishment. A bench headed by Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit said it was of the opinion that this …

Death Penalty : Legislative And Judicial Chronology From Bachan Singh Vs. State Of Punjab (1980) To Manoj Singh Vs. State Of M.P(2022)
2 years, 4 months ago

Death Penalty : Legislative And Judicial Chronology From Bachan Singh Vs. State Of Punjab (1980) To Manoj Singh Vs. State Of M.P(2022)

Live Law  

Death Penalty, one of the punishments that can be awarded to an accused in India- has always been subject to diverse views, criticism and repeated evaluations of being effective or ineffective in retribution or being a necessary action in few cases. The five judge bench in Bachan Singh's case laid down elaborate frame-line and guiding factors to be taken into …

The challenge of reforming death penalty sentencing
2 years, 7 months ago

The challenge of reforming death penalty sentencing

The Hindu  

There has been an intense and persistent crisis in the fairness of administering the death penalty in India for many decades now that has been acknowledged in judgments of the Supreme Court of India, by former judges, lawyers, researchers, etc. Individualised sentencing The constitutionality of the death penalty was upheld in 1980 in Bachan Singh vs State of Punjab, which …

A new track for capital punishment jurisprudence
2 years, 8 months ago

A new track for capital punishment jurisprudence

The Hindu  

A recent trend in the evolution of jurisprudence around the death penalty in India may reset judicial thinking around sentencing and have long-term ramifications in the awarding of capital punishment. The Court has also initiated a suo motu writ petition to delve deep into these issues on key aspects surrounding our understanding of death penalty sentencing. Building on this, the …

Revisiting death penalty jurisprudence
2 years, 8 months ago

Revisiting death penalty jurisprudence

The Hindu  

On April 22, a Bench of the Supreme Court of India, led by Justice U.U. Several other cases also were decided by ignoring the Bachan Singh doctrine, as noted by the Supreme Court itself in Santhosh Kumar Satishbhushan Bariyar vs State of Maharashtra and Rajesh Kumar vs State. Taking empirical lessons from the fate of Bachan Singh, the Supreme Court …

[VIDEO] Deathworthy - A Discussion On Mental Health Perspective Of Death Penalty -Justice S. Muralidhar
3 years, 2 months ago

[VIDEO] Deathworthy - A Discussion On Mental Health Perspective Of Death Penalty -Justice S. Muralidhar

Live Law  

Five years of Project 39A's work to understand psychiatric illnesses and intellectual disability among death row prisoners in India has culminated in Deathworthy: A Mental Health Perspective of the Death Penalty.Join us for a discussion on the report at 5:30 pm on 20th October 2021.The panel comprises • Justice S. Muralidhar • Professor Pratima. Five years of Project 39A's work …

Tomorrow AT 5.30 PM - Deathworthy - A Discussion On Mental Health Perspective Of Death Penalty -Justice S. Muralidhar
3 years, 2 months ago

Tomorrow AT 5.30 PM - Deathworthy - A Discussion On Mental Health Perspective Of Death Penalty -Justice S. Muralidhar

Live Law  

Five years of Project 39A's work to understand psychiatric illnesses and intellectual disability among death row prisoners in India has culminated in Deathworthy: A Mental Health Perspective of the Death Penalty.Join us for a discussion on the report at 5:30 pm on 20th October 2021.The panel comprises • Justice S. Muralidhar • Professor Pratima. Five years of Project 39A's work …

Book Review- "The Punished: Stories of Death-Row Prisoners in India" by Jahanvi Mishra
3 years, 9 months ago

Book Review- "The Punished: Stories of Death-Row Prisoners in India" by Jahanvi Mishra

Live Law  

The debate on the righteousness of capital punishment is going on since time immemorial. Based on the interview for Project 39A, Jahanvi Mishra has penned down "The Punished: Stories of Death-Row Prisoners in India", a book that reveals lives of death-row prisoners in India. The foreword by Dr Anup Surendranath draws attention to several important issues regarding death-row prisoners and …

Stories of the people we want to kill
3 years, 9 months ago

Stories of the people we want to kill

Live Mint  

About a year ago, the four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case—Akshay Thakur, 31, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Sharma, 26, and Mukesh Singh, 32—were hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail at daybreak. Jahnavi Misra’s anthology of fictionalised stories, The Punished: Stories of Death-Row Prisoners in India, which is based on some of these recordings, is therefore a book that forces us …

65% of Death Sentences in 2020 Involved Sexual Violence; Project 39A at NLU-Delhi Delhi Releases 5th Annual Death Penalty Statistics
3 years, 11 months ago

65% of Death Sentences in 2020 Involved Sexual Violence; Project 39A at NLU-Delhi Delhi Releases 5th Annual Death Penalty Statistics

Live Law  

Project 39A at National Law University, Delhi published the fifth edition of the Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics Report which provides an annual update on all death penalty cases in India alongwith documenting the legislative developments on the issue. However, there was an increase in the proportion of death sentences imposed for cases involving sexual offences by trial courts …

ILS Webinar: Revisiting Jurisprudence On Capital Punishment In India [11th July]
4 years, 6 months ago

ILS Webinar: Revisiting Jurisprudence On Capital Punishment In India [11th July]

Live Law  

Indian Law Society's Law College, Criminal Law Cell is organizing a webinar on the "Revisiting Jurisprudence on Capital Punishment in India". The webinar aims to get insights on different aspects of the death penalty such as philosophies behind it, constitutionality, ground realities, and discussion on both abolition and retention of the death penalty in India. Day & Date: Saturday, 11th …

Death Penalty Sentencing in India's Trial Courts: Confusion in the Apex Court Wreaks Havoc in Courts Below
4 years, 8 months ago

Death Penalty Sentencing in India's Trial Courts: Confusion in the Apex Court Wreaks Havoc in Courts Below

Live Law  

Project 39A has released a report titled DeathPenalty Sentencing in Trial Courts: Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra containing findings from a study of all capital cases decided by trial courts of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra between 2000 and 2015. Contrary to the Constitution Bench decision in Bachan Singh which emphasised the relevance of mitigating factors in capital sentencing, trial …

Situating Death Penalty Discourse Beyond Abolition-Retention Discourse
4 years, 9 months ago

Situating Death Penalty Discourse Beyond Abolition-Retention Discourse

Live Law  

A sufficiently just and analytically coherent system of criminal law is an unrealistic expectation- Allen Norrie As was expected, the hanging of the convicts in Nirbhaya gang rape case has evoked sharp reactions and criticism from several quarters including the Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists and the United Nations. The quest of justice varies significantly and there may …

Nirbhaya case :Human Rights activists "cry foul" after rapists are executed
4 years, 9 months ago

Nirbhaya case :Human Rights activists "cry foul" after rapists are executed

Op India  

Following the execution of the convicts involved in the brutal gangrape and murder of 23-year-old physiotherapy student in 2012 who was named “Nirbhaya” by the media, several self-proclaimed human rights activists assumed moral high ground and dubbed the death penalty handed out to the convicts as an act of revenge. #Nirbhaya https://t.co/tWHlKA2Zh9 — Mohd Mojahid March 20, 2020 Citing the …

SC Dismisses Plea Challenging Constitutionality Of Execution Of Death Penalty By Hanging
4 years, 10 months ago

SC Dismisses Plea Challenging Constitutionality Of Execution Of Death Penalty By Hanging

Live Law  

Supreme Court has dismissed a petition filed by a 88-year old freedom fighter challenging the constitutional validity of delivering death penalty by hanging by deathThe Bench headed by Justice SA Bobde dismissed the petition filed by S Paremeswaran Nampoothiri challenging Section 354 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which states when any person is sentenced to death, the sentence. Supreme …

Nirbhaya Case: Plea For Separate Executions Of Death Row Convicts Deferred To 5th March
4 years, 10 months ago

Nirbhaya Case: Plea For Separate Executions Of Death Row Convicts Deferred To 5th March

Live Law  

A Bench comprising Justices R. Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan & Navin Sinha, has deferred the Union's plea seeking separate execution of death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya Gang Rape Case to 5th March 2020. The Ministry of Home Affairs had sought directions to execute the death row convicts separately after the Delhi High Court on 5th February 2020 had rejected …

Continuing debate
4 years, 10 months ago

Continuing debate

The Hindu  

THE delay in the hanging of the convicts in the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapist in December 2012 has been a matter of intense discussion. While recommending partial abolition of the death penalty in 2015, the Law Commission, based on National Crime Records Bureau figures, concluded that murder rates were falling and, correspondingly, the rate of execution …

SC Issues Order Prescribing Fixed Timelines For Listing Of Death Penalty Criminal Appeals [Read Order]
4 years, 11 months ago

SC Issues Order Prescribing Fixed Timelines For Listing Of Death Penalty Criminal Appeals [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court Registry has released an Office Order laying down timelines and guidelines for listing of Criminal Appeals involving Death Penalty. The following are the prescribed Guidelines that have been formulated: - 1) In matters where Death Penalty has been upheld/confirmed and the Supreme Court has granted leave, the Appeal shall be listed not later than Six Months before …

Nirbhaya Case: How Disturbingly Clamour For Death Manifested Itself In Courtroom
4 years, 11 months ago

Nirbhaya Case: How Disturbingly Clamour For Death Manifested Itself In Courtroom

Live Law  

It would be an understatement to say that the Nirbhaya rape case is more than just a 'legal proceeding'. It was during the recently concluded execution proceedings, wherein the Additional Sessions Judge ended up staying the date of execution sine die, that this unjustified clamour manifested itself. Despite being aware of the Delhi Prison Rules and how the same unambiguously …

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Repeated delays in execution of convicts incentivises vigilante justice; erodes faith in India’s criminal justice system
4 years, 11 months ago

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Repeated delays in execution of convicts incentivises vigilante justice; erodes faith in India’s criminal justice system

Firstpost  

Amid Shaheen Bagh protests, budget and upcoming Delhi elections, an important development has gone quite under the radar that may have far-reaching consequences and leave an indelible mark on India’s polity. The crime shook the nation and forced the government to enact tougher new laws, including introducing death penalty in ‘rarest of rare’ cases, widening the definition of “rape”, adding …

'Rape And Murder' Tops The List Of Cases Where Death Penalty Was Awarded In India : Project39 (NLU-D) Report
4 years, 11 months ago

'Rape And Murder' Tops The List Of Cases Where Death Penalty Was Awarded In India : Project39 (NLU-D) Report

Live Law  

As per the "Death Penalty Report in India: Annual Statistics" published by Project 39A of the National Law University, Delhi, 2019 was a significant year in terms of legal developments on capital punishment in India. Courts gave death penalty for murder involving sexual offences in 18% of the cases in 2016. Further, despite the drop in the total number of …

Nirbhaya case: All convicts to be executed in Tihar Jail's cell 3 on January 22
5 years ago

Nirbhaya case: All convicts to be executed in Tihar Jail's cell 3 on January 22

India TV News  

All the convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case will be hanged on January 22 at 7 am in Tihar Jail's cell 3. On Tuesday, a Delhi Court issued death warrants against all four death row convicts in the case. Meanwhile, the Tihar Jail authorities will write to the Uttar Pradesh Prison Department seeking the service of a hangman. …

Execution of convicts will be 'real tribute' to her, says officer who headed Nirbhaya case SIT
5 years ago

Execution of convicts will be 'real tribute' to her, says officer who headed Nirbhaya case SIT

India TV News  

The execution of the Nirbhaya case convicts will be a "real tribute" to her, Deputy Commissioner of Police Pramod Singh Kushwaha, who headed the SIT which probed the 2012 case, said on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, a Delhi court issued death warrants against all the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape-murder case and ordered that they be hanged on …

Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case: Debate on death penalty continues
5 years ago

Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case: Debate on death penalty continues

India TV News  

A Delhi court Tuesday ordered hanging of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case triggering debate whether death sentence deters heinous crimes. After the trial court's Tuesday order issuing death warrants of the convicts, Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi, said, "the hanging of convicts will restore the faith of women in law". Meanwhile, the lawyers said the …

Nirbhaya case: SC rejects review petition filed by convict but Delhi HC does not give death warrant, next hearing on 7th January
5 years ago

Nirbhaya case: SC rejects review petition filed by convict but Delhi HC does not give death warrant, next hearing on 7th January

Op India  

The top court of the country has rejected the review petition filed by one of the death-row convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh, in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case. Supreme Court rejects review petition of Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case. Today, the bench headed by Justice R Banumathi and comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and AS …

Delhi air killing us anyway, why death penalty: Nirbhaya convict's bizarre petition in Supreme Court
5 years, 1 month ago

Delhi air killing us anyway, why death penalty: Nirbhaya convict's bizarre petition in Supreme Court

India TV News  

One of the four men convicted in the 2012 Nirbhaya rape and murder has filed a petition in the Supreme Court appealing against his death sentence. In a 14-page Criminal review petition, Akshay states: "Why death penalty when age is reducing.it is mentioned in our Ved, Purans and Upanishads that.people lived the life of thousand years.now it is Kalyug, in …

Amid outrage over Hyderabad rape and murder case, a look at why politicians protect rapist-killers
5 years, 1 month ago

Amid outrage over Hyderabad rape and murder case, a look at why politicians protect rapist-killers

Firstpost  

Crimes that shock the nation are now a daily reality. The number of child sexual abuse cases – including rape and other forms of sexual assault — per hour in India is likely to be much, much higher. On 15 September, 2017, the Supreme Court of India orders that the notices to the respondents be sent to the State Legal …

As Hyderabad rape, murder case triggers calls for harsher penalties, how political posturing prevents death penalty for rapist-killers
5 years, 1 month ago

As Hyderabad rape, murder case triggers calls for harsher penalties, how political posturing prevents death penalty for rapist-killers

Firstpost  

Amid calls for the death penalty for rapists, in the aftermath of the rape and murder of a Hyderabad veterinarian, this ringside view proves how political posturing can contrast with reality, with politicians themselves protecting the rapist-killer by permitting inordinate delays and presidential pardons. Additional research on each of their five convictions to double-check that all cases had been awarded …

Death for rape? Why lawmakers need to get realistic and not fan public sentiments
5 years, 1 month ago

Death for rape? Why lawmakers need to get realistic and not fan public sentiments

India Today  

Rape is more common a crime than murder in India, according to the latest data collated by the National Crime Record Bureau. However, only some rape cases see outpouring of public anger in which demand for death penalty for the rapists is raised at a very high pitch. A study by the Centre of Death Penalty - at the National …

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