Kasab sentenced to death
14 years, 10 months ago

Kasab sentenced to death

The Hindu  

Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab “shall be hanged by neck till he is dead.” Pronouncing these words, the Special Sessions Court here on Thursday sentenced to death the lone surviving gunman of the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Kasab was given the death penalty on five counts: murder, abetment to murder, waging war, criminal conspiracy and committing terrorist acts. The court has said while giving the judgment that you shall be hanged unto death,” Mr. Tahaliyani told Kasab. He has no right to live.” The Indian Penal Code Sections under which Kasab has been given death penalty are: 302, 302 read with 120 B, 121, 302 read with 34 and 302 read with 109 read with 120 B.

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What judges said on refusing demands for a death sentence to Sajjan Kumar
1 month ago

What judges said on refusing demands for a death sentence to Sajjan Kumar

India Today  

A Delhi court on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in a murder case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. WHAT SPECIAL JUDGE KAVERI BAWEJA'S VERDICT SAID "The 'satisfactory' conduct of the convict as per the report of the jail authorities, the ailments from which he is reportedly suffering, the fact that the convict has roots …

West Bengal man sentenced to death by hanging for raping 7-month-old child, attempting murder
1 month, 1 week ago

West Bengal man sentenced to death by hanging for raping 7-month-old child, attempting murder

Live Mint  

A man from West Bengal's Jhargram district was on Tuesday sentenced to death by hanging after a special POCSO court in Kolkata held him guilty in connection with the rape and attempted murder of a seven-month-old child. Judge Indrila Mukherjee found the convict Rajib Ghosh guilty under sections 65, 140, 137 and 118 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and Sec …

SC sets aside death penalty to man convicted of killing wife, daughter
1 month, 1 week ago

SC sets aside death penalty to man convicted of killing wife, daughter

Hindustan Times  

India’s criminal justice system disproportionately disadvantages the accused, especially those who are economically or socially vulnerable, the Supreme Court has lamented while setting aside the death penalty awarded to a man convicted of murdering his wife and 12-year-old daughter. The court held that the accused was denied a fair trial due to procedural deficiencies, including the absence of legal representation …

Death penalty an exception, not the rule: SC
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Death penalty an exception, not the rule: SC

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court has reaffirmed that not every case of multiple murders qualifies as a “rarest of rare” instance warranting the death penalty, particularly when there is potential for reform. The court underscored that while the crime was brutal and deeply disturbing, the absence of criminal antecedents, favourable prison reports indicating a scope for rehabilitation and legal precedents weighed against …

5 who raped, killed Chhattisgarh teen, murdered 2 family members sentenced to death
2 months ago

5 who raped, killed Chhattisgarh teen, murdered 2 family members sentenced to death

Hindustan Times  

RAIPUR: A special court in Chhattisgarh’s Korba has handed down a death penalty verdict for five men who raped and killed a 16-year-old tribal girl before murdering her two family members including a four-year-old girl. Special public prosecutor Sunil Kumar Mishra said he had sought the death penalty for all six accused Additional sessions judge Mamta Bhojwani, who delivered the …

RG Kar murder case: CBI to seek death penalty for convict Sanjay Roy before Calcutta high court
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2 months ago

RG Kar murder case: CBI to seek death penalty for convict Sanjay Roy before Calcutta high court

Hindustan Times  

The Central Bureau of Investigation will file an appeal before the Calcutta high court, seeking death penalty for Sanjay Roy, who was sentenced to "life imprisonment until death" by a Sealdah court in the RG Kar rape and murder case, officials told PTI on Wednesday. Sanjay Roy, a civic volunteer, was sentenced to life imprisonment till death after being convicted …

RG Kar rape-murder case: CBI challenges lower court's order in Calcutta HC, seeks death penalty for Sanjay Roy
2 months ago

RG Kar rape-murder case: CBI challenges lower court's order in Calcutta HC, seeks death penalty for Sanjay Roy

India TV News  

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday filed a plea in the Calcutta High Court challenging the lower court order granting life imprisonment to Sanjay Roy, accused in the RG Kar rape and murder case. This comes after the West Bengal government has also filed an appeal in the Calcutta High Court’s Division Bench, challenging the life imprisonment of Sanjay …

WB govt moves Calcutta HC for death penalty in R G Kar case
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2 months ago

WB govt moves Calcutta HC for death penalty in R G Kar case

Deccan Chronicle  

Kolkata: The West Bengal government has moved the Calcutta High Court seeking death penalty to Sanjay Roy, the convict who was awarded life imprisonment by the Sealdah Court into the rape and murder of an-duty female doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on Monday. The state government’s step came a day after chief minister Mamata Banerjee declared …

RG Kar rape-murder case: Bengal govt moves Calcutta HC seeking death penalty for accused Sanjay Roy
2 months ago

RG Kar rape-murder case: Bengal govt moves Calcutta HC seeking death penalty for accused Sanjay Roy

India TV News  

RG Kar rape-murder case: The West Bengal government on Tuesday moved to Calcutta High Court, seeking a death penalty for accused Sanjay Roy, who had been convicted of the rape and murder of an on-duty junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College on August 9, 2024. Advocate General Kishore Dutta moved division bench Justice Debangshu Basak against the Sealdah court's …

Bengal government appeals for death penalty for RG Kar rape-murder convict
2 months ago

Bengal government appeals for death penalty for RG Kar rape-murder convict

India Today  

The West Bengal government on Tuesday moved the Calcutta High Court, seeking death penalty for Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar rape and murder case. Advocate General Kishore Dutta moved a division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak on behalf of the state government, seeking death penalty for Roy and the matter has been allowed to be filed. A …

'RG Kar case forcibly taken away from Kolkata Police': Mamata Banerjee ‘not satisfied’ with punishment for Sanjay Roy
2 months ago

'RG Kar case forcibly taken away from Kolkata Police': Mamata Banerjee ‘not satisfied’ with punishment for Sanjay Roy

Hindustan Times  

RG Kar rape-murder case: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee expressed disappointment with the Kolkata court's sentencing of life imprisonment till death for convict Sanjay Roy in the RG Kar rape and murder case on Monday. “I am not satisfied… All of us demanded the death sentence, but the court gave life imprisonment,” Mamata Banerjee said in her first reaction …

R.G. Kar rape and murder: Lifelong imprisonment for convict Sanjay Roy
2 months ago

R.G. Kar rape and murder: Lifelong imprisonment for convict Sanjay Roy

The Hindu  

A sessions court in Kolkata on Monday sentenced Sanjay Roy, the convict in the rape and murder of a doctor at R.G. Meanwhile, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said that her government will plead for capital punishment for the convict in the Calcutta High Court. The order noted that Sanjay Roy will suffer rigorous imprisonment for life and fine of …

RG Kar rape-murder case: Demanded death sentence for Sanjay Roy, says CM Mamata Banerjee
2 months ago

RG Kar rape-murder case: Demanded death sentence for Sanjay Roy, says CM Mamata Banerjee

Live Mint  

RG Kar rape-murder case: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that she was not satisfied with the Kolkata court's life-term sentence for Sanjay Roy in RG Kar rape-murder case. Trial court's verdict on RG Kar rape-murder case These remarks come after Kolkata's Sealdah court sentenced Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment until death on Monday. The court of …

Bengal government to seek death penalty for RG Kar convict: Mamata Banerjee
2 months, 1 week ago

Bengal government to seek death penalty for RG Kar convict: Mamata Banerjee

India Today  

The West Bengal government will seek a death sentence for Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar rape-murder case, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday. Following the court order, Mamata Banerjee said she was "not satisfied" with the life imprisonment sentence given to Sanjay Roy, and asserted that he would have received a death penalty had the case …

Current Scenario On Death Penalty In Light Of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
2 months, 1 week ago

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 …

Bombay High Court upholds penalty of a man convicted in murdering his mother and later eating her organs
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Bombay High Court upholds penalty of a man convicted in murdering his mother and later eating her organs

The Hindu  

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday upheld the death penalty awarded to a man from Maharashtra’s Kolhapur for brutally murdering his 63-year-old mother and later eating her body parts and organs in 2017. Thus, we have upheld your death sentence, as awarded to you by the sessions court,” the Division Bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Prithviraj Chavan observed. The …

Indian-origin minister about to scrap mandatory death sentence in THIS nation I DETAILS
1 year, 11 months ago

Indian-origin minister about to scrap mandatory death sentence in THIS nation I DETAILS

India TV News  

Malaysia's Parliament on Monday approved a bill that would scrap mandatory death penalties and limit capital punishment to serious crimes as part of wide-ranging reforms, bringing possible reprieves to more than 1,300 prisoners on death row. While the death sentence remains, courts will now be given the option of imposing jail sentences of up to 40 years, Deputy Law Minister …

Uphold dignity in death penalty
2 years 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 …

165 Death Sentences Awarded By Trial Courts In 2022, Highest Ever In A Year Since 2000 : Project 39A Report
2 years, 1 month 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, 4 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 …

Sakinaka rape-murder case: Accused Mohan Chouhan sentenced to death
2 years, 9 months ago

Sakinaka rape-murder case: Accused Mohan Chouhan sentenced to death

India TV News  

Sakinaka Rape-Murder Case: A Special Court in Mumbai on Thursday awarded the death penalty to a man accused of raping and murdering a 34-year-old woman in the Sakinaka area last September. Additional sessions judge H C Shende had convicted accused Mohan Kathwaru Chauhan under IPC sections 302, 376 as well as provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act …

Ahmedabad serial blasts: Indian court sentences 38 out of 49 convicts to death in 2008 case
3 years, 1 month ago

Ahmedabad serial blasts: Indian court sentences 38 out of 49 convicts to death in 2008 case

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A local court in the …

2012 Delhi gang rape and murder case: Pawan Kumar Gupta files curative plea in SC seeking commutation of death penalty to life imprisonment
5 years ago

2012 Delhi gang rape and murder case: Pawan Kumar Gupta files curative plea in SC seeking commutation of death penalty to life imprisonment

Firstpost  

New Delhi: One of the four death row convicts, Pawan Kumar Gupta, in the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder case moved a curative plea in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment. Reuters Gupta, against whom the death warrant has been issued for execution along with three other condemned prisoners on 3 …

'Rape And Murder' Tops The List Of Cases Where Death Penalty Was Awarded In India : Project39 (NLU-D) Report
5 years, 2 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 …

Execution of convicts will be 'real tribute' to her, says officer who headed Nirbhaya case SIT
5 years, 2 months 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 …

Trying to delay the inevitable, Centre to Supreme Court on Delhi gang-rape convict’s review petition
5 years, 3 months ago

Trying to delay the inevitable, Centre to Supreme Court on Delhi gang-rape convict’s review petition

Hindustan Times  

There were demands of showing no mercy to Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the four convicts awaiting death penalty in connection with the 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder case, during the hearing on his review petition. Akshay moved the court seeking review of its 2017 verdict which upheld the death penalty awarded to him and three others in the case. …

CJI Bobde recuses from review plea of Nirbhaya rape case accused
5 years, 3 months ago

CJI Bobde recuses from review plea of Nirbhaya rape case accused

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde on Tuesday recused himself from hearing the review petition of Akshay Kumar Singh — accused in 2012 Delhi gang rape case — seeking reconsideration of the Supreme Court’s order upholding his death sentence along with three other accused. Chief Justice Bobde, heading a three-judge bench that includes Justice R. Banumathi and Justice …

2012 Delhi gang-rape: CJI SA Bobde recuses himself from hearing on convict's plea seeking review of death penalty
5 years, 3 months ago

2012 Delhi gang-rape: CJI SA Bobde recuses himself from hearing on convict's plea seeking review of death penalty

Firstpost  

The CJI said one of his relatives had earlier appeared on behalf of the victim’s mother in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case and observed that it would be appropriate that some other bench hear the review plea at 10.30 am tomorrow. New Delhi: Chief Justice SA Bobde recused himself on Tuesday from hearing the plea of convict Akshay Kumar Singh …

Delhi air killing us anyway, why death penalty: Nirbhaya convict's bizarre petition in Supreme Court
5 years, 3 months 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 …

'Why give death penalty when Delhi air is killing us anyway', reads review petition of 2012 gangrape convict in Supreme Court
5 years, 3 months ago

'Why give death penalty when Delhi air is killing us anyway', reads review petition of 2012 gangrape convict in Supreme Court

Firstpost  

Akshay, 31, who had not filed the review plea earlier with other three convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case, has now moved the apex court with the petition, his lawyer AP Singh said. One of the four convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh, moved the Supreme Court Tuesday seeking review of its 2017 judgement handing down death penalty to all of …

SC Issues Notice On Plea Challenging Mandatory Death Penalty Under SC/ST Act [Read Petition]
5 years, 10 months ago

SC Issues Notice On Plea Challenging Mandatory Death Penalty Under SC/ST Act [Read Petition]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court bench headed by Justice SA Bobde today issued notice to the Centre on a PIL challenging mandatory death penalty under section 3 of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Act. The provisions prescribes mandatory death penalty to a non-SC/ST person, if he is found to have knowingly fabricated or given false evidence in a criminal. The …

Punjab & Haryana HC Upholds Death Sentence Of A Murder Accused Already On Death Row In Another Case [Read Judgment]
5 years, 11 months ago

Punjab & Haryana HC Upholds Death Sentence Of A Murder Accused Already On Death Row In Another Case [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Punjab and Haryana High Court, on Thursday, upheld the death penalty awarded to a man accused of murdering four persons, including two minor children, belonging to one family. After it came to light that Khushwinder Singh confessed his involvement in this case, during investigation in another murder case, the matter was re-investigated by CBI. The conviction and death sentence …

SC Acquits Six Men to Whom It Had Given Death Sentence in 2009
6 years ago

SC Acquits Six Men to Whom It Had Given Death Sentence in 2009

The Quint  

The judgment of the court could have far-reaching consequences because it was a complete U-turn on the decision originally taken by the Supreme Court itself 10 years ago. The legal error made by Justice Pasayat in the 2009 decision had been made in six other cases, and there was a significant issue with contrasting death penalty decisions during his tenure …

Time Has Come To Examine The Need For Death Penalty As Punishment Especially Its Purpose And Practice: Justice Kurian Joseph, Other Two Judges Disagree [Read Judgment]
6 years, 3 months ago

Time Has Come To Examine The Need For Death Penalty As Punishment Especially Its Purpose And Practice: Justice Kurian Joseph, Other Two Judges Disagree [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

“Every death penalty case before the court deals with a human life that enjoys certain constitutional protections and if life is to be taken away, then the process must adhere to the strictest and highest constitutional standards. Our conscience as judges, which is guided by constitutional principles, cannot allow anything less than that.” Justice Kurian Joseph, while commuting death penalty …

Breaking: Delhi Court Awards First Death Sentence In Anti-Sikh Riots Case
6 years, 4 months ago

Breaking: Delhi Court Awards First Death Sentence In Anti-Sikh Riots Case

Live Law  

This is the first Death Sentence awarded in a Case related to 1984 Anti-Sikh RiotsA Delhi court Tuesday awarded death penalty to convict Yashpal Singh and ordered life imprisonment to another, Naresh Sherawat, for killing of two men during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that followed assassination of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi leaving nearly 3,000 people dead.In the first …

SC Stays Execution Of Death Sentence In A 9 Year Old Girl Rape And Murder Case [Read Order]
6 years, 6 months ago

SC Stays Execution Of Death Sentence In A 9 Year Old Girl Rape And Murder Case [Read Order]

Live Law  

“She expected him to behave to her like a father. He smothered her, prevented her from crying, raped her and in the process committed murder.”The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, stayed the execution of death penalty of a man accused of rape and murder Of 9-Yr-Old Girl.The Bench headed by the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra granted leave in the …

SC Stays Execution Of Death Penalty In 7-Yr-Old Rape And Murder Case [Read Order]
6 years, 6 months ago

SC Stays Execution Of Death Penalty In 7-Yr-Old Rape And Murder Case [Read Order]

Live Law  

“The sex maniacs are prowling in the society like wild wolves to quench their sinful bodily lust. In this evil pursuit they even do not spare infants and children,” the high court had said in the judgmentThe Supreme Court has stayed execution of death penalty imposed on a man accused of rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl.Calling for the …

SC Stays Execution Of Death Penalty In 7-Yr-Old Rape And Murder Case [Read Order]
6 years, 6 months ago

SC Stays Execution Of Death Penalty In 7-Yr-Old Rape And Murder Case [Read Order]

Live Law  

“The sex maniacs are prowling in the society like wild wolves to quench their sinful bodily lust. In this evil pursuit they even do not spare infants and children,” the high court had said in the judgmentThe Supreme Court has stayed execution of death penalty imposed on a man accused of rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl.Calling for the …

371 Convicts In Death Row By 2017 End, 27% Dip From 2016: Centre On Death Penalty (NLU-D) Report [Read Report]
7 years, 2 months ago

371 Convicts In Death Row By 2017 End, 27% Dip From 2016: Centre On Death Penalty (NLU-D) Report [Read Report]

Live Law  

A total of 371 convicts are on death row by the end of 2017, which is 27 per cent lower than that in 2016 when 399 persons were awarded death sentence.The statistics are part of second edition of ‘Death Penalty in India, Annual Statistics Report’ Published by Centre on death penalty, National Law University.The report is a result of extensive …

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Two death row convicts file plea in SC to review punishment
7 years, 3 months ago

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Two death row convicts file plea in SC to review punishment

Firstpost  

Two of the four death row convicts in the 16 December, 2012 gangrape and murder case on Friday moved the Supreme Court for review of its verdict New Delhi: Two of the four death row convicts in the 16 December, 2012 gangrape and murder case on Friday moved the Supreme Court for review of its verdict upholding the capital punishment …

Tamil Nadu: Six get death sentence for honour' killing
7 years, 3 months ago

Tamil Nadu: Six get death sentence for honour' killing

Deccan Chronicle  

TIRUPUR: In a landmark ruling, a Special Court here trying cases under the Prevention of Atrocities Against Scheduled Castes and Tribes Act, convicted and sentenced six persons to double death penalty in a sensational case of suspected ‘honour killing’ of a Dalit youth Shankar who had married an upper-caste girl, in full public view in Udumalpet in March last year. …

Supreme Court upholds death penalty in Delhi gang rape case
7 years, 10 months ago

Supreme Court upholds death penalty in Delhi gang rape case

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court upheld on Friday the death sentences of four men convicted in the brutal gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in Delhi in 2012, describing the crime as “a story of a different world” that sparked a “tsunami of shock”. The court used words like “gruesome”, “gross”, “sadistic” and “beastly” in its 429-page, hard-hitting …

Delhi gang rape case: SC confirms death for four
7 years, 10 months ago

Delhi gang rape case: SC confirms death for four

The Hindu  

“She was an object for their enjoyment. for the devilish manner in which they played with her dignity and identity.” These were the final words with which Justice Dipak Misra concluded the pronouncement of the Supreme Court judgment confirming the death penalty for the four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder case, which shook the entire nation …

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Supreme Court upholds death sentence to 4 convicts
7 years, 10 months ago

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Supreme Court upholds death sentence to 4 convicts

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence awarded to four convicts in the brutal 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in Delhi that sparked nationwide outrage. The Delhi high court on 13 March 2014 upheld the death sentence awarded to Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta, Akshay Thakur and Vinay Sharma after they were …

BREAKING: SC Upholds Death Penalty For Nirbhaya Convicts [Read Judgment]
7 years, 10 months ago

BREAKING: SC Upholds Death Penalty For Nirbhaya Convicts [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

Supreme Court of India on Friday has upheld the Death penalty of convicts in Nirbhaya Rape and Death Case. Justice Banumati wrote a separate but concurring Judgment.The Three Judge Bench dismissed their appeal against the Delhi High Court, which has confirmed the capital punishment awarded to them by. The Three Judge Bench dismissed their appeal against the Delhi High Court, …

Delhi gang rape case: SC upholds death for four
7 years, 10 months ago

Delhi gang rape case: SC upholds death for four

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death penalty for the four convicted in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case. The shattering of the victim's intestine with an iron rod, the tearing of her clothes, looting and a bestial sexual assault make the gang rape a rarest of rare cases, the court said. The victim’s dying declaration is consistent; it …

India Death Penalty Report-2016
8 years, 2 months ago

India Death Penalty Report-2016

Live Law  

In 2016, the Judgments of the Apex Court which considered the Criminal Appeals by Death row convicts, raised a suspicion whether it is becoming more and more reluctant to award/confirm death penalty. September 1: Triple murder case A three-judge Bench of the apex court comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Prafulla C. Pant and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit commuted the death …

September Blow To ‘Death Penalty’
8 years, 5 months ago

September Blow To ‘Death Penalty’

Live Law  

September has been a heaven-sent month for seven persons whose death penalty awarded by high courts for committing heinous crimes like rape and murder was commuted by the Supreme Court.The judgments pronounced this month in their criminal appeals also raise a suspicion whether the apex court is becoming more and more reluctant to award death penalty.The Bench comprising Justice Ranjan. …

Jigisha Ghosh murder case: Death sentence for two, life term for another
8 years, 7 months ago

Jigisha Ghosh murder case: Death sentence for two, life term for another

Live Mint  

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday awarded death penalty to two convicts and life term to another for robbing and killing IT executive Jigisha Ghosh in New Delhi in 2009, observing that it was a “brutal” and “cold blooded murder”. “To be hanged by neck till death,” additional sessions judge Sandeep Yadav said, while awarding death to convicts Ravi …

Death sentence for two in Delhi IT professional Jigisha murder case
8 years, 7 months ago

Death sentence for two in Delhi IT professional Jigisha murder case

The Hindu  

A Delhi court on Monday awarded the death penalty to Ravi Kapoor and Amit Shukla for kidnapping and killing IT professional Jigisha Ghosh in the national capital in 2009. Any leniency in such cases will send a very wrong message in society and will encourage criminals like the convicts,’’ the Judge said, while rejecting the plea for lenient punishment by …

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