Tag: Death Sentence

Death sentence of 15 Indians commuted to life term in Kuwait: Swaraj

New Delhi: Death sentence of 15 Indians, lodged in Kuwaiti jails, have been commuted to life imprisonment by the Emir of Kuwait, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said today. Swaraj said the Emir has also directed that the sentences of 119 Indian nationals be reduced. The minister thanked the Emir of Kuwait for his “kind” […]

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
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Dog sentenced to death for biting child in Pakistan

Punjab: In a peculiar punishment, a dog was on Tuesday sentenced to death in Pakistan’s Punjab province for biting a child. The dog, which bit a child, was sentenced to death by Assistant Commissioner Raja Saleem in Bhakkar’s Kalor vicinity in Punjab province, Geo TV reported. Assistant Commissioner Saleem said that the sentence was announced […]

  • Monday, 28 June 2021
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Execution of verdict on Jadhav will be treated as murder: MoS

Mumbai: If Pakistan executes the death sentence against Kulbhushan Jadhav it will be treated as murder of an Indian national, Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre today said. He said the Centre was trying to bring international diplomatic pressure on Pakistan to secure Jadhav’s release. “We have given a strong message to authorities in […]

  • Monday, 28 June 2021
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Wheels of Justice Must Move Faster

Two decisions in two days by the higher judiciary have reaffirmed the common man’s faith in the country’s much reviled judicial system. In the first verdict on Thursday, the Bombay High Court not only upheld the conviction of 11 men for gang raping Bilkis Bano, a five-month pregnant Muslim woman fleeing from the worst ever […]

  • Thursday, 10 June 2021
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Death Sentence To 16 For Torching 18-Yr-Old Girl Student In Bangladesh

Dhaka: Sixteen people including the head of a madrasa were sentenced to death by a Bangladeshi court on Thursday for burning alive a teenage girl student for refusing to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against him. The gruesome murder took place in April when a gang of killers poured kerosene over 18-year-old Nusrat Jahan Rafi […]

  • Saturday, 24 April 2021
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Saudi Arabia sentences 5 to death over Khashoggi killing

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has sentenced five people to death for their role in the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018, the public prosecutor said on Monday. In a press conference, spokesman for the public prosecutor Shalan al-Shalan explained that three other convicts received a total of 24 years in jail for […]

  • Wednesday, 21 April 2021
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SC Dismisses Two Nirbhaya Convicts' Curative Pleas; One Moves HC Challenging Death Warrant

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the curative petitions filed by two Nirbhaya gang rape and murder convicts – Vinay Kumar and Mukesh – who questioned the death sentence handed down by trial court and upheld by the Delhi High Court and the apex court. A five-judge bench of Justices N.V. Ramana, Arun […]

  • Tuesday, 20 April 2021
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'Nirbhaya convicts lawyer using delaying tactics'

New Delhi: The Patiala House court on Saturady while disposing of the plea filed by Nirbhaya convict’s counsel seeking relevant documents to exercise the remaining legal remedies noted that “jail authorities have already complied with the request”. Session Judge Ajay Kumar Jain stated that the jail authorities have already complied with the request made by […]

  • Tuesday, 20 April 2021
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