Two taxi drivers were on Monday awarded the death sentence by a Delhi court for killing Australian tourist Dawn Emilie Griggs, after gangraping and robbing her, in 2004.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 each on the two convicts who were held guilty of gangrape, robbery, destruction of evidence and common intention. The court had convicted the two accused on August 2.The court convicted Prasad, 28, and Kumar, in his early 30's, for the various offences.
A man along with his daughter and son were sentenced to death by a local court after being convicted of burning alive the wife of another son to deprive her of her share of property.
Three AIADMK functionaries were awarded the death sentence by a lower court in the Dharmapuri bus burning case in which three college girls were burnt to death in 2000.
'Always keep accurate and transparent records of the source of the investment or property's funding: Loan agreements, transfer records of the property, and bank statements of co-owners if available.'
The Delhi high court on Thursday commuted to life term the death penalty awarded to Ariz Khan following his conviction in the sensational 2008 Batla House encounter in which decorated Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma lost his life.
A 22-year-old man was on Thursday sentenced to death by a local court for raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl.
The usage of the phrase 'rarest of rare cases' has a very interesting history attached to it in India.
The high court upheld total 31 convictions in the case and commuted the death penalties of the 11 convicts to life term, Mehta said.
We should put Ajmal Kasab in jail until he dies a natural death, just like Babu Bajrangi. Rotting in jail knowing you are never going to be a free man again is worse than the finality of death. The punishment for crimes against humanity should be in this world and not the next, says Shivam Vij.
We should put Ajmal Kasab in jail until he dies a natural death, just like Babu Bajrangi. Rotting in jail knowing you are never going to be a free man again is worse than the finality of death. The punishment for crimes against humanity should be in this world and not the next, says Shivam Vij.
On May 24, 2022, a trial court in the national capital had awarded life imprisonment to Malik, the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief, after holding him guilty of various offences under the stringent anti-terror law-Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA)-- and the Indian Penal Code.
Nineteen years later, remembering how terror struck Mumbai's lifeline on July 11, 2006.
The medical practitioner was accused of murdering Jayashree Patel and Nilesh Patel in separate incidents and was sentenced to life imprisonment by the sessions court in 1995.
Ashfaq's Indian wife Rehmana Yousuf Farooqui, who was held guilty of harbouring the main accused, has been given a\nseven-year jail term.
Former Team India hockey stars Rupinder Pal Singh, Gurwinder Singh Chandi and Jugraj Singh are now engaged in a different 'field work' - they are part of the relief and rescue operations in flood-affected Punjab.
Two young men have been sentenced to death by a special court in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu for the brutal murder of four members of a Dalit family, including two children, at a village in the district in 2007. Judge T S Nandhakumar of the Special Court, formed under the Protection of Civil Rights Act, also sentenced Katturaja, 32, and Vettum Perumal, 33, to five terms of life imprisonment which will run consecutively.
Three Taliban militants have been given a death sentence by a Pakistani court for attacking trucks carrying critical supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan in 2010.
Asserting that mistakes were made by both sides, Italy on Saturday said India should have realised from the beginning that Kerala judges did not have jurisdiction over the case involving the two Italian marines accused of killing Indian fishermen.
In a huge relief, an appellate court in Qatar has commuted the death sentence of eight former Indian Navy personnel, arrested in an alleged case of espionage in August 2022.
A convicted murderer is set to be executed by firing squad in the United States state of South Carolina on Friday, marking the state's first use of the method and the first such execution in the US in nearly 15 years.
A combination of laws prescribing tough retribution with training in morals and ethics at every level of education and insistence on parental teaching would seem to be the best stratagem to counter natural animal instincts, says A K Verma.
A Kolkata court will pronounce the sentence on Monday for Sanjay Roy, convicted of raping and murdering an on-duty doctor at the state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. Roy, a former civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police, was found guilty of sexually assaulting the doctor and throttling her to death. The judge will also address questions raised by the victim's father and criticize some activities of the police and hospital authorities.
'Sanjay Roy is not alone.' 'If he's kept alive, maybe we will know what happened.' 'Why was he in the chest medicine department that night when he never went there earlier?' 'Nobody will parade in front of a CCTV camera and then go and murder someone.' 'There are several people who are involved in this heinous crime. They have to be identified and punished.'
Manchester United survived one of the most astonishing FA Cup semi-final comebacks ever to beat second-tier Coventry City on penalties after a spellbinding clash ended 3-3 after extra-time at Wembley Stadium on Sunday.
The prosecution on Thursday demanded before a Delhi court that senior Indian Police Service Officer R K Sharma and hired killer Pradeep Sharma be awarded capital punishment in the sensational Shivani Bhatnagar murder case. "There are two categories of convicts in the case. Sharma and hired criminal Pradeep had played more active roles than the other two convicts," Special Public Prosecutor S K Saxena said, while seeking gallows for them.
Raja Raghuvanshi's wife Sonam (25), allegedly involved in the murder of her husband, surrendered before the Nandganj Police Station in Ghazipur district in adjoining Uttar Pradesh and was later placed under arrest, according to the Meghalaya police.
Sajjan Kumar is currently lodged in Tihar jail.
The parents of the 23-year-old girl, who was gang raped in Delhi in December 2012, have advocated for corporal punishment to offenders in rape cases.
The Bombay high court on Thursday commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty awarded to three convicts in the 2013 gangrape case of a 22-year-old photojournalist inside the defunct Shakti Mills compound in central Mumbai, saying that they 'deserve imprisonment for life to repent the offence committed by them'.
An Egyptian court on Tuesday upheld the death sentences against 11 people for their involvement in the country's worst-ever soccer violence that killed 74 fans after a top-league game in the coastal Port Said city.
If charges warrant the death penalty, should the government stick to its undertaking or should he be given the death penalty?
Pronouncing the sentence, Judge V S Tripathi observed that the case fell in the rarest of rare category and as such the convicts were entitled to the severest punishment.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Lucknow awarded death sentence to three policemen and life term to five others in a 31-year-old fake encounter case in Gonda district in which 13 persons, including a deputy superintendent of police were killed.
Swamy Shraddananda, jailed for 30 years for killing his wife, has moved the Supreme Court seeking authorities to decide his mercy plea before the President in December, 2023.
"The initial plan was to dispose of the body parts in a secluded location, but the duo eventually decided to keep it inside a large blue drum, filling it with cement and sand," said SP Singh.
'Day by day we expose how soulless we have become as a society. Every day is a disappointment.'
The Supreme Court's refusal to stay execution of Yakub Memon on Wednesday drew sharp reactions from legal experts.
The family wants death penalty for all the accused.
Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case who was initially reported missing in Meghalaya, apparently visited Indore after her husband was murdered and stayed in a rented flat for three days, a police official said on Tuesday.
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