Search results for 'Dhananjay Chatterjee'.
Is V K Singh Up For Promotion?
Rediff.com9 Sep 2023General Singh was assigned to receive leaders representing the planet's two superpowers -- the president of the United States and the premier of the People's Republic of China.
Yakub Memon hanged in Nagpur Jail
Rediff.com30 Jul 2015Yakub Memon, who was convicted for helping finance the serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993 in which 257 people were killed, was hanged at the Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday morning shortly before 7am.
Men who were HANGED for their deeds
Rediff.com30 Jul 2015Rediff.com takes a look at some cases from the recent past where the courts awarded the capital punishment for horrific crimes that fall under the rarest of rare category.
Bihar jail inmates eager to make noose to hang Kasab
Rediff.com31 Aug 2012Over a dozen inmates of a jail in Bihar are eagerly waiting for the much sought demand to prepare a hangman's noose, made of the famous 'manila' rope, to hang Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab after the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks convict.
Bihar jail offers to supply rope for Kasab hanging
Rediff.com8 May 2010A jail in Bihar has offered to supply its famous 'manila' rope to hang Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested during the terror siege on Mumbai, who was awarded the death sentence by a special court on Thursday.Buxar prison is the only jail in the country that has expertise in manufacturing wax-coated manila rope, which can withstand the tension caused by the fall of the convict after the execution.Manufacturing a manila rope is a tedious affair.
Bypolls: Left crumbles, Maya stages a comeback
Rediff.com11 Nov 2009Trinamool, BSP consolidate their positions in the bypolls; Left routed
Dhananjoy's brother makes last minute plea to SC
Rediff.com12 Aug 2004The West Bengal government scheduled the hanging of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in her Kolkata home, on August 14 after President A P J Abdul Kalam rejected his mercy plea.
Dhananjay's brother approaches SC
Rediff.com11 Aug 2004Dhananjay is scheduled to be hanged on August 14 for raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in Kolkata in 1990.
Kalam rejects Dhananjay's mercy petition
Rediff.com4 Aug 2004Does capital punishment really act as a deterrent
Rediff.com12 Jul 2004'Capital punishment acts as a deterrent'
Rediff.com12 Jul 2004Should Dhananjoy Chatterjee be hanged?
Rediff.com25 Jun 2004In January 1994, the Calcutta high court had sentenced him to be hanged until death for raping and then murdering teenager Hetal Parekh on March 5, 1990 in Kolkata's Bhawanipur area.
Mercy petition makes hangman wait
Rediff.com25 Jun 2004President, SC stay rapist-murderer's hanging
Rediff.com24 Jun 2004Friends, relatives and some jail inmates have pleaded that Chatterjee's death sentence be changed to life imprisonment.