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Bill Seeking Death Penalty For Rape Convicts Passed In Bengal Assembly
The 'Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill', which seeks the death penalty for convicts in rape and murder cases or in cases of rape where the victim is left in a vegetative state, was passed through a voice vote in the
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Madhya Pradesh Man Who Raped, Killed 4-Year-Old In 2017 To Be Released
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of a 20-year-old man, who was awarded the death penalty for rape and murder of a four-year-old child in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh in 2017.
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Can't Award Death Penalty Retrospectively: Supreme Court On Telangana's Plea
The Supreme Court has refused to award death penalty to a convict, who committed rape and murder of a nine-year-old child last year in Telangana, nearly two months prior to the amendment of POCSO Act by parliament prescribing extreme sentence for the heinous crime, saying that retrospective effect to the law cannot be granted.
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Maharashtra Man Sentenced To Death For Raping, Killing 5-Year-Old Girl
A court in Maharashtra has sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a five year-old girl in 2016, observing that the crime was "more cruel" than the act of the most dreaded animal.
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Indore Man Sentenced To Death For Rape And Murder Of 4-Month-Old
A trial of 23 days ended in a death sentence for a 21-year-old man who had raped and killed a four-month-old girl in Madhya Pradesh last month. The Indore session court today convicted Naveen Gadake of rape and murder of an infant and handed him a death sentence under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).
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Death Penalty for Child Rapists Updates: President Kovind Signs Ordinance To Provide Strict Punishment
Today, President Ram Nath Kovind has signed the executive order to pave way for providing stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years. The Union Cabinet on Saturday at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the ordinance and was waiting for the President's ...
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Foreign Media On Modi Government's Move Towards Death For Child Rapists
Offenders who rape girls under 12 may now be subject to the death penalty in India, according to an ordinance passed by the cabinet Saturday after a nationwide furor over the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl.
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Kathua Girl's Father Hopeful After Centre Approves Death Penalty For Child Rape
The father of an eight-year-old girl, who was raped and murdered in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir in January, expressed hope of getting justice, after the Union Cabinet introduced death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years.
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Ordinance Decision Taken In View Of Lok Sabha Polls: Nirbhaya's Father
Nirbhaya's father alleged on Saturday that the Union Cabinet's approval to promulgate an ordinance to give the death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below 12 years has no "logic" and the decision was taken in view of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
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Jammu And Kashmir To Bring Own Order For Death Penalty For Child Rape
As the centre approved the death penalty for rapists of children below the age of 12 after weeks of public outrage over the rape and murder of an 8-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, the state government said today it too was going to bring a similar ordinance.
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Quicker Trials, Probe In Centre's Death For Child Rapists Ordinance: 10 Facts
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...
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Amid Nationwide Anger, Cabinet To Bring In Death Penalty For Child Rape
Scrambling to assuage the nationwide outrage over sexual violence against young girls, the government is expected to clear an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to bring in death penalty for child rape. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returns from a five-day foreign trip, has called for a cabinet meeting today to change the law.
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Kathua Rape Case: Maneka Gandhi To Ask For Death Penalty For Child Rape
Amid nationwide grief and anger over the gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, there is a move to change the law for sexual crimes against children to bring in the death penalty for child rape.
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Bill Seeking Death Penalty For Rape Convicts Passed In Bengal Assembly
The 'Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill', which seeks the death penalty for convicts in rape and murder cases or in cases of rape where the victim is left in a vegetative state, was passed through a voice vote in the
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Madhya Pradesh Man Who Raped, Killed 4-Year-Old In 2017 To Be Released
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of a 20-year-old man, who was awarded the death penalty for rape and murder of a four-year-old child in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh in 2017.
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Can't Award Death Penalty Retrospectively: Supreme Court On Telangana's Plea
The Supreme Court has refused to award death penalty to a convict, who committed rape and murder of a nine-year-old child last year in Telangana, nearly two months prior to the amendment of POCSO Act by parliament prescribing extreme sentence for the heinous crime, saying that retrospective effect to the law cannot be granted.
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Maharashtra Man Sentenced To Death For Raping, Killing 5-Year-Old Girl
A court in Maharashtra has sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a five year-old girl in 2016, observing that the crime was "more cruel" than the act of the most dreaded animal.
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Indore Man Sentenced To Death For Rape And Murder Of 4-Month-Old
A trial of 23 days ended in a death sentence for a 21-year-old man who had raped and killed a four-month-old girl in Madhya Pradesh last month. The Indore session court today convicted Naveen Gadake of rape and murder of an infant and handed him a death sentence under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).
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Death Penalty for Child Rapists Updates: President Kovind Signs Ordinance To Provide Strict Punishment
Today, President Ram Nath Kovind has signed the executive order to pave way for providing stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years. The Union Cabinet on Saturday at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the ordinance and was waiting for the President's ...
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Foreign Media On Modi Government's Move Towards Death For Child Rapists
Offenders who rape girls under 12 may now be subject to the death penalty in India, according to an ordinance passed by the cabinet Saturday after a nationwide furor over the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl.
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Kathua Girl's Father Hopeful After Centre Approves Death Penalty For Child Rape
The father of an eight-year-old girl, who was raped and murdered in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir in January, expressed hope of getting justice, after the Union Cabinet introduced death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years.
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Ordinance Decision Taken In View Of Lok Sabha Polls: Nirbhaya's Father
Nirbhaya's father alleged on Saturday that the Union Cabinet's approval to promulgate an ordinance to give the death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below 12 years has no "logic" and the decision was taken in view of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
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Jammu And Kashmir To Bring Own Order For Death Penalty For Child Rape
As the centre approved the death penalty for rapists of children below the age of 12 after weeks of public outrage over the rape and murder of an 8-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, the state government said today it too was going to bring a similar ordinance.
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Quicker Trials, Probe In Centre's Death For Child Rapists Ordinance: 10 Facts
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...
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Amid Nationwide Anger, Cabinet To Bring In Death Penalty For Child Rape
Scrambling to assuage the nationwide outrage over sexual violence against young girls, the government is expected to clear an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to bring in death penalty for child rape. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returns from a five-day foreign trip, has called for a cabinet meeting today to change the law.
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Kathua Rape Case: Maneka Gandhi To Ask For Death Penalty For Child Rape
Amid nationwide grief and anger over the gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua, there is a move to change the law for sexual crimes against children to bring in the death penalty for child rape.
