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Maharashtra govt forms committee to study Disha Act, asks panel to submit
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 24 (ANI): The Maharashtra government has constituted a five-member committee to study the Andhra Pradesh Disha Act, which enables death penalty for rape and reduces the judgement period in such cases to 21 working days.
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SC issues guidelines over listing of criminal appeals involving death pena
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 14 (ANI): The Supreme Court has issued guidelines regarding listing of criminal appeals against High Court orders involving death penalty, saying these guidelines shall be followed scrupulously by all.
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Plea filed in SC against death penalty awarded by Indian courts
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 10 (ANI) A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the legality and validity of Section 354(5) of CrPC that provides for a convict to be "hanged by the neck till dead", saying it is in conflict with the basic structure of the Constitution of India.
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SC agrees to hear Centre's plea seeking framing of additional guidelines i
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 31 (ANI): Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the Centre's application seeking framing of additional guidelines in death penalty cases.
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Telangana court awards death penalty to three men in Samatha gang-rape, mu
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Adilabad (Telangana) [India], Jan 30 (ANI): A special court in Telangana on Thursday awarded death sentence to three persons in connection with the Samatha gang-rape and murder case.
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SC reserves judgement in review petition pertaining to death penalty for t
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 23 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on a review petition filed against its judgment confirming the death penalty to two accused of killing 7 members of a family.
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Don't agree with Indira Jaising remarks on death penalty in Nirbhaya case,
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 18 (ANI): Rajya Sabha MP KTS Tulsi on Saturday said that he does not agree with Indira Jaising's remark, in which she spoke against death penalty and suggested to Nirbhaya's mother to forgive the convicts, and said that people of such "derived character" do not deserve
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POCSO court awards death sentence to rape accused, Lucknow Police Commissi
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 18 (ANI): Lucknow Police Commissioner, Sujeet Pandey, on Saturday lauded the role of department officials in the death penalty awarded, in four months, to an accused in the rape case of a minor.
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Requested Amit Shah to commute death penalty of Rajoana, says Sukhbir Sing
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan12 (ANI): A delegation of Shiromani Akali DaI (SAD) led by its President Sukhbir Singh Badal has requested Union Home Minister Amit Shah to cancel the death sentence of Balwant Singh Rajoana in 2007 case of assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh an
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UP: Two persons awarded death penalty for raping minor
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 10 (ANI): A Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court on Friday accorded the death penalty to two convicts in a rape case.
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Pak army to fight against Musharraf's death row through Imran's puppet gov
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], Dec 28 (ANI): Pakistan's former military Gen (Rtd.) Pervez Musharraf on Friday submitted a petition in Lahore High Court challenging the death sentence handed to him in a treason case earlier this month.
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Gujarat: Man gets death penalty for rape, murder of 3-year-old girl
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], Dec 28 (ANI): The Gujarat High Court on Friday has given a death penalty to a man for raping and murdering a 3-year-old.
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