Earlier in the day, the high court upheld a trial court order convicting Khan of the murder of the slain inspector but refused to confirm the capital punishment.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi on Friday described as "big relief" the Supreme Court's decision to commute to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded to murder convict M N Das and asked central and state governments to take steps for the release of the three death row convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
Days after the Supreme Court observed that the 'success rate' in cases taken up by the Central Bureau of Investigation is perceived low, the agency has informed it that it has achieved the conviction rate of about 65-70 per cent, and would try to raise it to 75 per cent by August 2022.
Sitting Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Legislative Assembly Manoj Pradhan was on Thursday sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for six years by a fast track court for a murder during the 2008 communal riots in Orissa's Kandhamal district. Fast track court-II judge C R Das convicted Pradhan for the murder of Bikram Nayak, a Christian from Budedipada of Tiangia village under Raikia police station limits on August 26, 2008.
"Collective conscience of the society shaken. In our society, minor girls are worshipped as goddess," the POCSO court said.
The high court also faulted the authorities concerned for not taking steps for issuance of death warrant after the rejection of appeals of the accused by the Supreme Court in 2017.
The execution of death warrants of these convicts have been deferred thrice so far due to delays by them in exhausting their legal remedies.
The convict, Ganga Dayal, was also asked to furnish a fine Rs 55,000. The killings, which happened 42 years ago, had sent shockwaves across the country.
A spokesperson for South Africa's Department of Correctional Services said a parole board would consider Pistorius's case at a hearing on Friday, where they will decide if he should be released on parole.
A 60-year-old Dalit man and his physically challenged daughter were burnt alive by members of the Jat community in Mirchpur village in Haryana's Hisar district in April 2010.
Pakistan on Wednesday executed nine death-row prisoners, a day after 12 others were hanged
The HC has upheld the sentence and conviction of Gawli and other accused.
Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen expressed his delight after Paralympics runner Oscar Pistorius's culpable homicide conviction, for killing his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, was upgraded to murder.
The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Monday the plea of Mukesh, who has also sought quashing of all orders passed by courts and the rejection of his mercy petition by the President since the day his curative petition was dismissed by the apex court.
What is perhaps more worrisome is that while the conviction rate in rape cases has increased marginally in recent years, the chargesheeting rate has gone down -- which means cases are not going to court.
This is the fourth death warrant issued for the execution of the convicts in the matter.
The date of execution, first fixed for January 22, was postponed for 6 am on February 1 by a January 17 court order.
The top court made this observation while ordering premature release of a woman convicted for murder of two children.
The court said it has decided to award imprisonment for life without any time frame to the 11, who have been convicted for murder, while requesting the state not to use its power to remit the sentence after 14 years of imprisonment.
The plea claims that the recommendation sent to the President to reject the mercy plea did not contain the signature of Delhi Home Minister Satyendar Jain.
Police cited the final post-mortem report that said Ansari died due to cardiac arrest.
Fifty-nine 'karsevaks' were killed in the Godhra train burning incident of February 27, 2002, triggering the worst communal riots in the history of Gujarat.
Of the 24 convicted, 11 have been convicted for murder and 13 for other charges.
In a disciplined force like the Indian Army seniority has all the importance, the Supreme Court said while commuting the life sentence of a non-commissioned officer held guilty for killing his colleague during an altercation over seniority.
A 3-judge bench would hear the plea, that has questioned
The Lucknow bench directed that the convicts serve their sentence in jail and also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each on them.
Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi said even the court understands that the convicts are filing pleas one after the other just to delay the hanging.
A Delhi court on Tuesday convicted 10 policemen, including suspended Assistant Commissioner of Police S S Rathi, for killing two innocent businessmen in the 1997 Connaught Place shootout case. The court is scheduled to pronounce the quantum of the sentence on October 24.
While posting the matter for hearing on April 18, a bench of Justices K M Joseph and B V Nagarathna said there is a gamut of issues involved and it needs to hear the matter in detail.
"We find that there has been undue and unexplained delay by both the state and Central government in processing the mercy petitions," the court said.
Bilkis Bano, a survivor of the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat, on Wednesday said the premature release of all the 11 convicts serving a life sentence in a case related to her and seven family members, has shaken faith in justice and left her numb.
As the court delivers its verdict on Thursday on the conviction of the Talwars in 2008 double murder case in Noida, here's a timeline in the case.
The woman's father died in judicial custody in April 2018.
'The main accused was acquitted by the court while the sentence awarded to the others is less. They should have been given strict punishment'
Of the 18 other ex-workers, who had been convicted of various other offences like violence, rioting and attempt to murder, four have been given a sentence of 5 years.
An application filed under the Right to Information Act has revealed that Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit had overridden the suggestion by state home secretary for a 15-day parole to Jessica Lall murder convict Manu Sharma and instead extended it to one month.
Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) were executed at 5.30 am for the savage assault in an empty moving bus on the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern who came to be known the world over as Nirbhaya.
Leaders from different political parties raised the issue of the gruesome murder and rape of a veterinary doctor in Telangana in Parliament on Monday.
An MP-MLA court in Prayagraj on Tuesday held gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and two others guilty in the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case.
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