A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala assured Bano, represented through her lawyer Shobha Gupta, that the new bench will be formed at the earliest.
A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Prashant Kumar Mishra noted, in accordance with its May 9 order, notices have been published in local newspapers, including those in Gujarati and English, against the convicts who could not be served (the notice).
His prison term is set to end on March 2016.
Sheikh Hasina, who was elected for a record fourth consecutive term and fifth overall term this year, was always admired by her supporters as "Iron Lady", before the dramatic development that abruptly ended her 15-year-rule in Bangladesh.
The juvenile convict in the 'Nirbhaya' gang-rape case of 2012 won't be released from jail and will be under the monitoring of an NGO for a year, sources said.
A fast track court in Orissa convicted 13 people for arson and other crimes in cases of rioting in Orissa's Kandhamal district in 2008 and sent them to five years of imprisonment on Saturday, even as it let off 17 others for lack of evidence.
Survivors and the kin of those who died in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts welcomed the court's decision to sentence the perpetrators to death as well as life imprisonment.
Akshay moves SC, saying death penalty entails 'cold blooded killing'. The SC has already rejected review pleas of 3 other convicts.
Nearly 68,000 rape cases were registered across the country during 2009-11 but only 16,000 rapists were sentenced to prison, presenting a dismal picture of conviction of sexual offenders.
Pakistan wanted to be constitutionally communal, India wanted to be secular but is communalising itself. All three nations share a penal code, but they have amended their laws to enable the State to specifically target minorities, points out Aakar Patel.
Several girls were sexually assaulted in a shelter home run by Thakur in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. He was convicted under various sections of IPC, POCSO Act and Juvenile Justice Act.
A report prepared by the National Crime Records Bureau shows that the largest state of the country has 1,048 convicts who are graduates
A 31-year old woman, arrested for shoving an Indian immigrant to his death onto a subway train track in New York, has been charged with murder as a hate crime after she admitted before police that she pushed him because she "hated Hindus and Muslims".
The Constitution's Preamble says that we Indians have resolved to secure for Indians 'fraternity, assuring the dignity of the individual'. Fraternity can come only when we stand up for each other. The desis of the Boston South Asian Coalition actually attempt to do that, points out Aakar Patel.
"Apart from other factors, the low conviction rate in the cases of rape or molestation is the biggest worry we have today. There is hardly any deterrence. Law should provide fast track courts to deal with such cases," says Girija Vyas, Chairperson, National Commission for Women.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha was urged by lawyer Shobha Gupta, appearing for Bano, that another bench was needed to be constituted to hear the case.
He was convicted of running a militia torture cell, Al Badr, which carried out killings of several people.
Strongly reacting to the recent Supreme Court judgement which commuted death penalty of the convict, who brutally raped a 23-year-old pregnant woman and killed her mother-in-law in a case in Pune in 2007, the victim's family on Sunday said the perpetrator of the crime had "no right to live".
They were each sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 28 years behind bars.
Supreme Court judge Bela M Trivedi on Tuesday recused herself from hearing a plea filed by Bilkis Bano, who was gang-raped and seven members of her family killed during the 2002 Gujarat riots, challenging the remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the case by the state government.
'Our struggle does not end here. Justice is getting delayed. It's affecting other daughters of the society'
An Indian software consultant, on a work visa in the United States, was convicted by a Chicago court on Thursday of groping a woman while they were seated next to each other aboard an airplane.
Two juveniles arrested in connection with the Shakti Mill gang rape cases of a photojournalist and a telephone operator were on Tuesday convicted by the Juvenile Justice Board and sent to a Nashik school for three years to learn "good behaviour".
Observing that the law takes a stern view of crimes such as rape, the Bombay High Court upheld the conviction of 20 accused in the rape case of a 16-year-old school student who was allegedly drugged by her neighbour, sexually assaulted and forced into prostitution.
The convicts were later airlifted to Kerala to lodge them in the Kannur central jail, official sources said.
State Home Secretary Afzal Amanullah told rediff.com that criminals were convicted and sentenced by the fast track court set up by the state government.
Bilkis Bano on Wednesday challenged the remission of sentence and release of convicts in the 2002 rape and murder case filing a plea before the Supreme Court.
Press Council of India Chairman Markandey Katju on Saturday expressed reservation over the recent Supreme Court verdict, barring convicted lawmakers from contesting polls, saying it should be reviewed as "judiciary cannot make laws".
Here's the key difference between the old law (Representation of People's Act 1951) and the new ordinance protecting convicted lawmakers.
On July 27, POTA Judge M R Puranik had convicted Ashrat Ashrat Ansari (32), Hanif Sayed Anees (46) and his wife Fehmida Sayed (43).
The draft bill seeks to amend relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for the proposed law's application in the state.
There is eight per cent quota for former defence personnel and employees of central and state public-sector undertakings.
Days after the execution of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, President Pranab Mukherjee rejected the mercy petitions of four associates of slain forest brigand Veerappan, who were given a death sentence in a landmine blast case.
All 12 convicts found guilty in the case relating to the July 11, 2006 serial train blasts, which claimed 188 lives in local trains in Mumbai, have pleaded leniency in the court on the point of sentence citing humanitarian grounds.
A Delhi court on Tuesday issued death warrants against all the four convicts in the gang rape-murder case. Pawan Jallad is said to be considered for the job, though he is yet to receive an official order.
A former television journalist was allegedly attacked by a convict in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case, who was out on parole, when she went to meet him regarding a book she is writing.
The special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court on Friday convicted gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli for the murder of Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar. The court also convicted 11 other accused in the case for which the sentence will be pronounced on August 27
Former Spanish tennis star Arantxa Sanchez Vicario has been given a suspended jail term for fraud, a court in Barcelona said on Wednesday.
IPS officer R S Bhagora, currently serving in Gujarat, has been convicted along with four other policemen by the Bombay high court recently after the trial court had acquitted them.
