Death Penalty

A Qatar court has accepted India's appeal against the death penalty to eight former Indian Navy personnel, who were handed the sentence last month in an alleged case of espionage. Sources said that the Qatari court will set a hearing date…
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The bill tabled on Friday by the Union government in Parliament to replace the British-era Indian Penal Code (IPC) has proposed to make punishments for crimes against women more stringent, envisaging death penalty as the maximum punishment…
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday approached the Delhi High Court seeking death penalty for separatist leader and chief of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Yasin Malik, who was awarded life term by a trial court in…
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Day after he was brought from Gujarat's Sabarmati jail amid tight security by the Uttar Pradesh police, gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad will be produced before the MP/MLA court in Prayagraj in the 2006 abduction of Umesh Pal. Pal,…
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An anti-terror court in Lucknow on Monday pronounced death sentence to Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi, convicted for attacking security staff at Gorakhpur's Gorakhnath temple with a sharp-edged weapon last year. Abbasi was convicted by the ATS court…
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A Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court on Tuesday awarded death sentence to two persons for the gangrape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha. Two others were acquitted due to lack of…
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