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SC seeks Centre's reply in plea for guidelines for time bound disposal of
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre on a plea seeking directions for issuance of guidelines for time bound disposal of clemency and mercy petitions for cases in which death penalty have been awarded.
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Plea filed in SC seeking guidelines for time-bound disposal of clemency, m
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions for issuance of guidelines for disposal of clemency and mercy petitions for cases in which death penalty has been awarded, in a time-bound manner.
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Saudi abolishes death penalty for juveniles
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], April 27 (ANI): Saudi Arabia has passed a royal decree ending the application of the death penalty for individuals convicted of crimes committed by juveniles, meaning that any individual who received a death sentence while he or she is a minor can no longer face execut
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SC commutes death penalty of 2 convicts to life imprisonment in minor kidn
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 25 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday commuted the death penalty of two convicts to life imprisonment and said that there shall not be any remission till they complete 25 years of jail sentence in connection with a case of kidnapping and murder of an eight-year-ol
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Delhi HC dismisses plea of Nirbhaya's convict claiming innocence
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 18 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed the plea of Mukesh Singh, one of the four convicts of Nirbhaya case, challenging trial court order which had dismissed his plea seeking quashing of his death penalty claiming he was not in the city when the incident
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Delhi HC reserves order on Nirbhaya convict's plea claiming innocence
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 18 (ANI): Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on a petition filed by one of the Nirbhaya convicts -- Mukesh Singh -- challenging the trial court's order dismissing his plea seeking quashing of death penalty claiming that he was not in the city when the cri
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Nirbhaya rape convict moves Delhi HC claiming innocence
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 18 (ANI): One of the convicts in Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, Mukesh, on Wednesday moved Delhi High Court challenging trial court order dismissing his plea seeking quashing of death penalty, claiming that he was not in Delhi when the gangrape incident took pla
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Delhi court dismisses Nirbhaya convict's plea claiming innocence, refers c
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 17 (ANI): A Delhi court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by one of the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder convicts -- Mukesh Singh -- seeking quashing of death penalty claiming that he was not in Delhi when the crime was committed.
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Delhi court reserves order on Nirbhaya convict's plea claiming innocence
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 17 (ANI): A Delhi court on Tuesday reserved its order on a plea filed by one of the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder convicts -- Mukesh Singh -- seeking quashing of death penalty claiming that he was not in Delhi when the crime was committed.
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SC to hear curative plea of Nirbhaya convict Pawan Kumar today
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 2 (ANI): Supreme Court will on Monday hear the curative petition filed by one of the four death row convicts, Pawan Kumar Gupta, seeking commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.
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Nirbhaya case: Death row convict moves SC for curative plea to be heard in
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 1 (ANI): One of death row convicts in Nirbhaya case, Pawan Gupta, has moved the Supreme Court on Sunday seeking a direction that his curative petition should be heard in an open court as the matter is related to the death penalty, said AP Singh, convict's lawyer.
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Court in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor awards death penalty to man for raping,
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Feb 24 (ANI): The Chittoor Sessions Court on Monday awarded death penalty to a man convicted for raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl in B. Kothakota Mandal.
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