The Delhi high court today asked the Centre to respond to a PIL seeking annulment of certain provisions in the juvenile law, including those that spare minor convicts from life imprisonment and death penalty.
President Pratibha Patil has commuted the death sentence of 35 people to life imprisonment, the highest by any head of state in three decades.
Leaders from all political parties welcomed the conviction of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
A case was filed on Friday against Bihar's Animal Husbandry Minister Giriraj Singh for calling slain Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeshwar Singh alias Mukhiya a Gandhian.
Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak is in a "critical" condition in jail suffering from breathing difficulties, nervous breakdown and depression after being sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the killing of protesters to his 30-year rule.
His sentence has been suspended from January 27 to February 10 in the rape case and in another for which he is serving 10 years' imprisonment for the death of the rape victim's father in custody.
Delhi blast convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's wife on Tuesday approached the Supreme Court, seeking a stay on the execution of his death sentence, till her review plea against its verdict is decided. She submitted in her plea that she has filed a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict of April 12, in which the court had rejected her petition to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment.
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