Source – ndtv.com MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday set aside the conviction and death penalty awarded to a man in a rape and murder case, noting that he was a juvenile at the time of the incident. A division bench of Justices BP Dharmadhikari and SK Shinde gave the ruling while hearing a petition
Source: newindianexpress.com KOCHI: The High Court on Thursday commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded by the Kasaragod Sessions Court to a civil contractor, first accused, for the brutal murder of 14-year-old Safiya, a maidservant who was working in his house. A Division Bench comprising Justice AM Shaffique and Justice N Anilkumar issued the order
Source: thehindu.com The Supreme Court, in a majority judgment of 2:1, confirmed the death sentence of a man for the gruesome rape of a 10-year-old child and the double murder of her and her seven-year-old brother in Coimbatore nine years ago. The majority decision of Justices Rohinton Nariman and Hemant Gupta on Thursday concluded that the convict, Manoharan,
Source: orissapost.com Chandigarh: Sensing the gravity of the matter, the Punjab and Haryana High Court here Wednesday decided to hear Thursday the Kathua rape victim father’s plea seeking death penalty for the heinous act and murder of his eight-year-old daughter in Jammu and Kashmir last year. The father has sought an enhancement of the life sentence
Source: indiatoday.in n a speedy judgment, a Bhopal court on Thursday awarded death sentence to a 35-year-old man for raping and killing a minor girl last month. Special Judge (for POCSO cases) Kumudini Patel pronounced the punishment to Vishnu Bamora on two separate offences under Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (murder) and 376-AB (raping a
Source: dnaindia.com The Gujarat High Court on Monday refused to uphold the death sentence awarded to a 38-year-old man for kidnapping, raping, and murdering a six-year-old girl. However, it ensured that the man would have to repent for committing the heinous crime for the rest of his life as it converted his death sentence to
Source: indianexpress.com The case dates back to January 1, 2012 when the girl’s father lodged a missing complaint for his daughter. A day later, he was called to the morgue to identify the body of a child he said was his daughter. Setting aside the death sentence handed out by a trial court to a
Source – indianexpress.com “Child rape is inexcusable” and “no leniency or mercy can be shown” to one who commits such a crime, the Delhi High Court said on Tuesday while declining to quash the ordinance that allows courts to award death penalty to those convicted of raping girls aged below 12. “Offence of rape is serious
Source – dnaindia.com The Supreme Court will pronounce judgment in the review petitions filed by the three convicts in the brutal December 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case today. The apex court had on May 4 reserved its order on the review petitions filed by the convicts– Pawan Gupta(31), Vinay Sharma (25), and Mukesh (31). A
Source: timesofindia India was among the 39 countries that voted against a UN General Assembly draft resolution which called for abolishing the death penalty, saying every nation had the “sovereign right” to determine its own legal system. The non-binding resolution called for a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty. It
