Crime Punishable By Death

The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Friday adopted a Bill that enhances punishment for offences against women and children including causing deaths by demanding dowry, stalking and selling minors for prostitution.

Two women officers have been appointed in Andhra Pradesh to implement the Disha Act that cleared the state assembly last month for tougher punishment, including death sentence, within 21 days for those guilty of crimes against women.

A proposed law for tougher punishment, including the death sentence, within 21 days for those guilty of crimes against women was cleared by the Andhra Pradesh assembly on Friday, weeks after a young woman's gang-rape and killing in neighbouring Telangana. The law has been dubbed the "Disha Act" after the name given to the woman in social media camp...

A bill seeking to provide death penalty for aggravated sexual assault on children and greater punishments for other crimes against minors was approved by Parliament, after it was passed by the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

The Rajya Sabha today passed a bill entailing amendments to the POCSO Act by including death penalty for aggravated sexual assault on children, besides providing stringent punishments for other crimes against them.

Brunei's sultan has announced death by stoning for gay sex and adultery will not be enforced after a global backlash, but critics today called for harsh sharia laws to be abandoned entirely. gay sex death

The centre on Saturday responded to the barrage of attacks over the government's inability to curb sexual crimes against girls with an executive order to introduce death penalty for child rapists, longer jail term for all rapists and set an ambitious four-month deadline to complete investigation and trial in all rape cases. The changes were cleared...

The centre today signed off on an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to introduce capital punishment for child rapists, a move that is seen as an effort to signal the government's commitment to fight sexual crimes against young girls. The change was cleared at a meeting of the Union Cabinet convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi within hour...

Vietnam has arrested a Malaysian woman for smuggling cocaine, state media said today, a crime punishable by death in the communist country.

Hate crimes should be made punishable by law and social networking sites should be monitored strictly, a committee has recommended to the government in a report that examined the death of a student from the northeast in Delhi in January.

The Delhi High Court today upheld the death sentence for four men convicted by a trial court for the brutal gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in December 2012 that shook the nation's conscience and led to widespread protests.

Amid a growing national clamour for stringent punishment for rapists in the wake of the death of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi, the Congress today sent its recommendations to a panel constituted to review and strengthen laws on crimes against women.

The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Friday adopted a Bill that enhances punishment for offences against women and children including causing deaths by demanding dowry, stalking and selling minors for prostitution.

Two women officers have been appointed in Andhra Pradesh to implement the Disha Act that cleared the state assembly last month for tougher punishment, including death sentence, within 21 days for those guilty of crimes against women.

A proposed law for tougher punishment, including the death sentence, within 21 days for those guilty of crimes against women was cleared by the Andhra Pradesh assembly on Friday, weeks after a young woman's gang-rape and killing in neighbouring Telangana. The law has been dubbed the "Disha Act" after the name given to the woman in social media camp...

A bill seeking to provide death penalty for aggravated sexual assault on children and greater punishments for other crimes against minors was approved by Parliament, after it was passed by the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

The Rajya Sabha today passed a bill entailing amendments to the POCSO Act by including death penalty for aggravated sexual assault on children, besides providing stringent punishments for other crimes against them.

Brunei's sultan has announced death by stoning for gay sex and adultery will not be enforced after a global backlash, but critics today called for harsh sharia laws to be abandoned entirely. gay sex death

The centre on Saturday responded to the barrage of attacks over the government's inability to curb sexual crimes against girls with an executive order to introduce death penalty for child rapists, longer jail term for all rapists and set an ambitious four-month deadline to complete investigation and trial in all rape cases. The changes were cleared...

The centre today signed off on an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to introduce capital punishment for child rapists, a move that is seen as an effort to signal the government's commitment to fight sexual crimes against young girls. The change was cleared at a meeting of the Union Cabinet convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi within hour...

Vietnam has arrested a Malaysian woman for smuggling cocaine, state media said today, a crime punishable by death in the communist country.

Hate crimes should be made punishable by law and social networking sites should be monitored strictly, a committee has recommended to the government in a report that examined the death of a student from the northeast in Delhi in January.

The Delhi High Court today upheld the death sentence for four men convicted by a trial court for the brutal gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in December 2012 that shook the nation's conscience and led to widespread protests.

Amid a growing national clamour for stringent punishment for rapists in the wake of the death of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi, the Congress today sent its recommendations to a panel constituted to review and strengthen laws on crimes against women.