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Nirbhaya rape convict moves Delhi HC claiming innocence
Updated : 6 years 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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Rajkot court awards death sentence to man for raping, killing minor in 201
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Rajkot (Gujarat) [India], Mar 17 (ANI): A District Court here on Monday awarded death sentence to a man for raping and murdering a three-year-old girl in 2018.
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3 Nirbhaya convicts approach ICJ, seeking stay on execution
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 16 (ANI): Three of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape case approached the International Court of Justice (ICJ), seeking a stay on the execution of their death sentence.
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Kalaburagi court awards death sentence to man in minor's rape-murder case
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Kalaburagi (Karnataka) [India], Mar 14 (ANI): Delivering its judgment within a period of three and half months, a court here on Friday awarded death sentence to a man, who was a convict in the rape and murder case of a minor girl.
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Nirbhaya convict approaches L-G, seeks to commute death sentence to life i
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 9 (ANI): Vinay Sharma, one of the death-row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case, has approached Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal through his lawyer AP Singh, seeking to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment.
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SC commutes death sentence of Chhattisgarh triple murder convict to life i
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New Delhi [India], Mar 5 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday commuted the death sentence of a convict in the 2011 Chhattisgarh triple murder case to life imprisonment and said that the convict should be kept in jail for at least 25 years.
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Jharkhand court awards death sentence to three in gangrape, murder of mino
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Dumka (Jharkhand) [India], Mar 3 (ANI): A Jharkhand court on Tuesday awarded death sentence to three persons in connection with the gang-rape and murder of a six-year-old girl under the limits of Ramgarh police station last month.
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Death sentence cannot be executed pending disposal of mercy petition: Delh
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 2 (ANI): A Delhi court on Monday stayed for the third time the Death sentence of four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case observing that they cannot be executed while a mercy petition is pending before the President.
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SC junks plea seeking to examine validity of law allowing hanging by neck
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New Delhi [India], Mar 2 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday refused to examine the validity of Section 354(5) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) that provides for a death row convict to be "hanged by the neck till he is dead".
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Nirbhaya case: Convict Pawan Gupta files curative petition in SC
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 28 (ANI): Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, on Friday filed a curative petition before the Supreme Court seeking to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
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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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Haryana court awards death sentence to PSO who killed judge's wife, son
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Chandigarh [India], Feb 7 (ANI): A Haryana court on Friday awarded death sentence to a personal security officer (PSO) for murdering Additional Sessions Judge Krishna Kant Sharma's son and wife in the year 2018.
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