New Delhi [India], Jan 28 (ANI): A Delhi court, which was scheduled to hear the argument over the quantum of the sentence in the Muzaffarpur shelter home case on Tuesday, adjourned the matter as the judge concerned was on a leave.
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Jan 25 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh government will release 186 prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment in various central jails of the state on the occasion of on Republic Day.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
New Delhi [India], Jan 17 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Friday issued a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on an appeal filed by expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar challenging a trial court's verdict which had sentenced him to life imprisonment for raping a minor girl in
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Jan 17 (ANI): A local special court on Thursday sentenced former IPS officer Rajendra Chaturvedi to five years of imprisonment for taking bribe for recruiting of jail wardens when he was the additional director general (prisons).
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.