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Maliwal to go on indefinite hunger strike seeking death penalty for child
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] April 12 (ANI): Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal will sit on an indefinite hunger strike from Friday at the Rajghat to demand for swift capital punishment for child rapists.
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Haryana passes bill to award death penalty for raping minors
Updated : 7 years, 12 months ago IST
Haryana (Punjab) [India], Mar. 15 (ANI): The Haryana Assembly on Thursday passed a bill seeking to give capital punishment to those found guilty of raping girls aged 12 years or below.
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Chouhan urges HM to pass bill on capital punishment for accused in minor r
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 13 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi.
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Haryana mulls capital punishment for raping minor girls
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Karnal (Haryana), Jan. 20 (ANI): Haryana will seek capital punishment for those found guilty of raping girls below 12 years, said Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday.
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K'taka considering capital punishment to rapists of minor girls
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Dec 24 (ANI): Taking a cue from Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy has said that the state government is planning to frame a law enabling capital punishment to rapists of minor girls.
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EU slams Pakistan's poor rights record, stand on Kulbhushan Jadhav
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], June 15 (ANI): The European Parliament has criticised Pakistan's human rights record, and squarely reminded Islamabad that it has grossly erred in handing down capital punishment for those allegedly violating the nation's blasphemy law, in the excessive of milit
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Petition in Pakistan SC for 'early execution' of Kulbhushan Jadh
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], May 28 (ANI): A petition has been filed in Pakistan's Supreme Court seeking 'immediate execution' of alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav if he failed to get his capital punishment overturned.
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Death sentence for every rapist: DCW
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Berating the brutal gang-rapes that have sent shock waves to the nation, Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Monday urged the government to grant capital punishment to every rapist in every rape case.
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Sentiment against capital punishment may influence Jadhav case: Salman Hai
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Commenting on the ongoing trial of Kulbhushan Jadhav's case in International Court of Justice (ICJ), former foreign secretary Salman Haider has pointed out that it will be highly influenced by a growing global sentiment against capital punishment.
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Nirbhaya verdict: BJP bats for capital punishment
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): As India's highest court is about to pronounce its judgment on the horrific December 16 gang-rape case today, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has backed the Supreme Court's previous decision of awarding capital punishment to the accused.
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Nithari case: Capital punishment to Surendra Koli for Nanda Devi's mu
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh), Oct. 7 (ANI): A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ghaziabad on Friday gave capital punishment to Surendra Koli who has been found guilty of murder of Nanda Devi in the 2006 Nithari serial killing case.
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Shahabuddin must rot in prison for rest of his life: Petitioners post SC o
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Siwan (Bihar) [India], Sept. 30 (ANI): Hailing the Supreme Court's verdict of cancelling the bail granted to former Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Mohammad Shahabuddin, Siwan native Chandrakeshwar Prasad and his wife Kalawati Devi, who are petitioners in the case, on Friday demanded capi
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