Death penalty

Gurugram: A man convicted of raping and killing a 3.5-year-old minor girl was handed the death penalty by a court here on Wednesday, an official said. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the convict, identified as Sunil.…
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Jagatsinghpur: The Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) court on Tuesday awarded death penalty to two persons. In a shocking and inhuman act, the two convicts had lured an 8-year-old girl with chocolate and gang-raped…
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the death sentence of a man convicted for sexually assaulting and killing a minor girl in Maharashtra's Thane district in 2013. A bench, headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, asked the…
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Ranchi: A court in Jharkhand on Tuesday awarded the death penalty to three men convicted for their involvement in the rape and murder of a 6-year-old minor girl. The court's verdict has come just 28 days after the incident. Dumka…
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Jaipur, Dec 20 (IANS) A special court here on Friday sentenced to death the four terrorists convicted of involvement in the 2008 Jaipur serial blasts that killed 71 people and injured 185. Judge Ajay Kumar started reading the verdict at…
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Keonjhar: A 55 year old under trial prisoner (UTP) lodged at Keonjhar jail for allegedly raping a minor girl died today. The incident took place a day after another inmate of the jail identified as Sunil Nayak was awarded death penalty in…
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Keonjhar: The Additional District Judge (ADJ) court today awarded death penalty to a man for rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in the district in 2017. The convict Sunil Nayak was found guilty of raping and murdering the minor girl…
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Dhaka: A Bangladeshi court on Wednesday sentenced seven Islamic militants to death in the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe terror attack case in 2016 that claimed the life of 22 people, including Tarishi Jain, an Indian student among a number of…
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Cuttack: Police DG B.K. Sharma today felicitated investigating officer Bichitrananda Sethi and Special Public Prosecutor Siba Prasad Majhi for conviction of rape and murder accused in Jagatsinghpur on Tuesday. The accused Laba alias…
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New Delhi: NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma has demanded capital punishment for the six convicts in the Kathua gangrape-murder case, saying the Jammu and Kashmir government should appeal in a higher court. A special court in Pathankot on…
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