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Tihar Jail to conduct dummy execution of Nirbhaya convicts before Jan 22
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 8 (ANI): Tihar Jail authorities will conduct dummy execution of Nirbhaya gang-rape convicts in coming days ahead of their execution on January 22. Earlier, it was scheduled to be held today.
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Delhi HC grants relief to rape convicts on survivor's application
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 4 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has granted relief to two men, named Ganesh and Kismat Ali, convicted for raping a woman after she expressed no objection over the reduction of their sentence.
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Ranchi: Court gives death sentence to man for murdering, raping engineerin
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], Dec 21 (ANI): A CBI court here on Saturday awarded death sentence to convict Rahul Raj in a rape and murder case of an engineering student in 2016 at her home in the city's Booty Basti.
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Nirbhaya rape convict's lawyer to file curative petition by soon
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 18 (ANI): Senior advocate A P Singh, representing the death-row convict, Akshay Kumar Singh, whose review petition was rejected by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, said that he will file the curative petition soon.
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Delhi: People take out protest march demanding death sentence to rapists
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 12 (ANI): Hundreds of people, most of them women, took out a protest march on Thursday demanding death sentence to rape convicts.
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Swati Maliwal continues hunger strike over women safety
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 12 (ANI): Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chief Swati Maliwal, whose hunger strike against rape incidents in the country entered its 10th day on Thursday, said that the government has not fulfilled her demands to punish the rape convicts.
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Nirbhaya gang-rape convict approaches President to withdraw his mercy plea
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 7 (ANI): One of the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case has moved his plea to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking immediate withdrawal of his mercy petition.
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Nirbhaya gang-rape convict Vinay Sharma seeks withdrawal of mercy petition
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 7 (ANI): Vinay Sharma, one of the convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case, has moved a plea to President of India Ram Nath Kovind, seeking immediate withdrawal of his mercy petition, claiming that he did not sign the document.
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Accused in Nirbhaya case should be hanged before Dec 16, demands DCW chief
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 6 (ANI): The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal on Friday welcomed the move by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of recommending President Ram Nath Kovind to reject the mercy plea of 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape convict Vinay Sharma.
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Nirbhaya case: MHA recommends President to reject mercy plea of convict
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 6 (ANI): The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday recommended President Ram Nath Kovind to reject the mercy plea of 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape convict Vinay Sharma.
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Rape convicts under POCSO should not have right to file mercy petition: Pr
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Sirhoi (Rajasthan) [India], Dec 6 (ANI): Terming women safety as a "serious issue", President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said that rape convicts under POCSO Act should not have right to file mercy petition.
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Rishi Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar call for timely execution of capital punishmen
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 01 (ANI): After news of the rape and killing of a woman veterinary doctor in Telangana's Ranga Reddy district made the headlines, many B-towners, have expressed their anguish and distress over the heinous crime.
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