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Calcutta High Court Acquits Death Penalty Awardee In Kamduni Gangrape-Murder Case
The Calcutta High Court on Friday acquitted a capital punishment awardee and commuted the death sentence of two others to life imprisonment in the gangrape and murder of a 21-year-old woman at Kamduni in West Bengal.
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Gujarat Seeks Death Penalty For 11 Godhra Train Burning Convicts
The Gujarat government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it will press for the death penalty to 11 convicts whose sentences in the 2002 Godhra train burning case were commuted to life imprisonment by the state's high court.
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Lok Sabha Passes Bill To Make Provisions To Deal With Maritime Piracy
The Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill to make special provisions for the repression of piracy on high seas with the government adding life imprisonment along with the provision of death penalty for those convicted of the crime.
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Terrorist Yasin Malik Gets Life Sentence In Terror Funding Case
Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik was Wednesday sentenced to life in prison by a special Delhi court. The National Investigation Agency had demanded the maximum punishment, the death penalty, while the defence pleaded for life imprisonment.
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Supreme Court Asks Centre To Decide Beant Singh Killer's Mercy Plea
The Supreme Court Monday directed the Centre to decide within two months Balwant Singh Rajoana's plea that his death penalty in the 1995 assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh be commuted to life imprisonment on ground of his long
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Man Gets Death Penalty For Murder, Rape Of Woman And Daughter In Gujarat
A court in Gujarat on Monday sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a woman and her 11-year-old daughter in 2018, a case that had triggered national outrage. His accomplice was given life imprisonment on the charge of murder.
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Death Penalty To Maharashtra Sisters Who Killed 5 Children Commuted To Life Term
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded to sisters Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit, who were convicted by a Kolhapur court for kidnapping 14 children and killing five of them between 1990 and 1996.
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Life Term "To Repent": Mumbai Gang-Rape Convicts' Death Penalty Commuted
Bombay High Court today commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty awarded to 3 convicts in the 2013 gang-rape case of a 22-year-old photojournalist inside the defunct Shakti Mills compound in central Mumbai.
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Bill Proposes Death Penalty In Hooch Tragedy Cases in Madhya Pradesh
A bill proposing stricter punishment up to life imprisonment and death penalty to perpetrators of hooch tragedies was cleared by the Madhya Pradesh cabinet today.
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Man Awarded Death Penalty, Wife Gets Life Imprisonment In Murder Case
A court in Rajasthan's Kota has awarded death sentence to a man and life imprisonment to his wife in a five-year-old robbery and murder case in Kota.
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Rajasthan Assembly Introduces Bill Against Dishonour Killing
The Rajasthan government on Tuesday introduced a bill in the assembly to curb incidents of dishonour killing in the state with the provision of punishment of death penalty or life imprisonment for murdering couples in the name of family honour.
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Pune Rape And Murder Convicts' Death Penalty Commuted To Life Sentence
The Bombay High Court on Monday commuted the death penalty of two convicts in the 2007 Pune BPO gang-rape and murder case to life imprisonment on the ground that there had been an inordinate delay in executing them.
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Bombay High Court Upholds Death Penalty For Repeat Rape Convicts
The Bombay High Court on Monday upheld the constitutional validity of a section of the Indian Penal Code, which states that a repeat rape offender can be imprisoned for the rest of his life or sentenced to death.
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Pakistan's Army General Given Life Sentence On Spying Charges
Pakistan's army has sentenced a general to life imprisonment for spying and ordered the death penalty for a brigadier and a civilian officer convicted in the same case, a military statement said on Thursday.
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"Consider Background," Says Top Court, Sparing 2 The Death Penalty
The Supreme Court today scaled down the death sentence of two convicts to life imprisonment, saying that judges should take socio-economic factors into account before sending anybody to the gallows.
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Calcutta High Court Acquits Death Penalty Awardee In Kamduni Gangrape-Murder Case
The Calcutta High Court on Friday acquitted a capital punishment awardee and commuted the death sentence of two others to life imprisonment in the gangrape and murder of a 21-year-old woman at Kamduni in West Bengal.
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Gujarat Seeks Death Penalty For 11 Godhra Train Burning Convicts
The Gujarat government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it will press for the death penalty to 11 convicts whose sentences in the 2002 Godhra train burning case were commuted to life imprisonment by the state's high court.
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Lok Sabha Passes Bill To Make Provisions To Deal With Maritime Piracy
The Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill to make special provisions for the repression of piracy on high seas with the government adding life imprisonment along with the provision of death penalty for those convicted of the crime.
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Terrorist Yasin Malik Gets Life Sentence In Terror Funding Case
Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik was Wednesday sentenced to life in prison by a special Delhi court. The National Investigation Agency had demanded the maximum punishment, the death penalty, while the defence pleaded for life imprisonment.
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Supreme Court Asks Centre To Decide Beant Singh Killer's Mercy Plea
The Supreme Court Monday directed the Centre to decide within two months Balwant Singh Rajoana's plea that his death penalty in the 1995 assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh be commuted to life imprisonment on ground of his long
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Man Gets Death Penalty For Murder, Rape Of Woman And Daughter In Gujarat
A court in Gujarat on Monday sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering a woman and her 11-year-old daughter in 2018, a case that had triggered national outrage. His accomplice was given life imprisonment on the charge of murder.
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Death Penalty To Maharashtra Sisters Who Killed 5 Children Commuted To Life Term
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded to sisters Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit, who were convicted by a Kolhapur court for kidnapping 14 children and killing five of them between 1990 and 1996.
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Life Term "To Repent": Mumbai Gang-Rape Convicts' Death Penalty Commuted
Bombay High Court today commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty awarded to 3 convicts in the 2013 gang-rape case of a 22-year-old photojournalist inside the defunct Shakti Mills compound in central Mumbai.
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Bill Proposes Death Penalty In Hooch Tragedy Cases in Madhya Pradesh
A bill proposing stricter punishment up to life imprisonment and death penalty to perpetrators of hooch tragedies was cleared by the Madhya Pradesh cabinet today.
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Man Awarded Death Penalty, Wife Gets Life Imprisonment In Murder Case
A court in Rajasthan's Kota has awarded death sentence to a man and life imprisonment to his wife in a five-year-old robbery and murder case in Kota.
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Rajasthan Assembly Introduces Bill Against Dishonour Killing
The Rajasthan government on Tuesday introduced a bill in the assembly to curb incidents of dishonour killing in the state with the provision of punishment of death penalty or life imprisonment for murdering couples in the name of family honour.
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Pune Rape And Murder Convicts' Death Penalty Commuted To Life Sentence
The Bombay High Court on Monday commuted the death penalty of two convicts in the 2007 Pune BPO gang-rape and murder case to life imprisonment on the ground that there had been an inordinate delay in executing them.
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Bombay High Court Upholds Death Penalty For Repeat Rape Convicts
The Bombay High Court on Monday upheld the constitutional validity of a section of the Indian Penal Code, which states that a repeat rape offender can be imprisoned for the rest of his life or sentenced to death.
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Pakistan's Army General Given Life Sentence On Spying Charges
Pakistan's army has sentenced a general to life imprisonment for spying and ordered the death penalty for a brigadier and a civilian officer convicted in the same case, a military statement said on Thursday.
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"Consider Background," Says Top Court, Sparing 2 The Death Penalty
The Supreme Court today scaled down the death sentence of two convicts to life imprisonment, saying that judges should take socio-economic factors into account before sending anybody to the gallows.
