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SC to hear curative petition of third Nirbhaya convict tomorrow
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 29 (ANI): The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday a curative petition filed by one of the Nirbhaya convicts, Akshay Thakur, seeking commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment.
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Third Nirbhaya convict files curative petition in SC seeking commutation o
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 29 (ANI): The third death row convict in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, Akshay Thakur, on Wednesday filed a curative petition before the Supreme Court seeking commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment.
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Dummy execution of Nirbhaya convicts performed in Tihar Jail
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 27 (ANI): A dummy execution of the convicts of the Nirbhaya gang-rape case was successfully performed in Tihar Jail on Monday.
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Nirbhaya convict challenges rejection of mercy petition in SC, seeks commu
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 25 (ANI): One of the death row convicts in the brutal December 16, 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case -- Mukesh Kumar Singh -- on Saturday approached the Supreme Court challenging the rejection of his mercy petition by President of India, according to advocate Vri
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Death row convict to mandatorily file mercy petition with 7 days, MHA seek
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 22 (ANI): The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has sought direction from Supreme Court that if the convict in the death sentence case, wants to file mercy petition, it would be mandatory to do so only within a period of seven days from the date of receipt of death warran
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Amid CAA row, NCP leader says Hindus may not be able to tell where their g
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Thane (Maharashtra) [India], Jan 20 (ANI): In remarks that could stir controversy, NCP leader Jitendra Awhad on Monday alleged that ancestors of people sitting at the throne in Delhi "were appeasing" Britishers at a time his father was embracing death sentence for the sake of the country.
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POCSO court awards death sentence to rape accused, Lucknow Police Commissi
Updated : 6 years, 2 months 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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Kejriwal urges Centre to not do politics, work together to get Nirbhaya co
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 17 (ANI): After Union Minister Smriti Irani attacked the Delhi government over the delay in commuting the death sentence to the four convicts of Nirbhaya gang-rape case, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said that politics should not be done on the matter
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Smriti Irani slams AAP over delay in hanging of Nirbhaya convicts
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 17 (ANI): Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over the delay in commuting the death sentence to the four convicts of Nirbhaya gang-rape case after the review petition of the rapists was dismissed in July 2018.
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Musharraf moves Pak SC against special court verdict in high treason case
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan 16 (ANI): Pakistan's former military dictator Pervez Musharraf on Thursday moved Supreme Court against a special court verdict -- which had handed death sentence to him in a high treason case last year, Dawn reported.
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Lahore HC declares formation of special court that heard Musharraf treason
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], Jan 13 (ANI): The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday declared the formation of a special court -- which had handed death sentence to Pakistan's former military dictator Pervez Musharraf in a high treason case last year -- as "unconstitutional", local media reported.
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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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