India
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- federal parliamentary republic
- CONSTITUTION
- January 26, 1950; amended several times
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on English common law; partial review of legislative acts by the judiciary
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Council of States (Rajya Sabha) and People's Assembly (Lok Sabha)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, judges appointed by the President and serve until 65 years of age
RELIGIONS
80% Hindu; 11% Muslims; 2% Christians; 2% Sikhs; Buddhist minorities and others
From the country
JANUARY 29, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY FOR 2005 SHRAMJIVI EXPRESS TRAIN BLAST
A district court in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur town on January 3, 2024 sentenced to death two men, including one from Bangladesh, for carrying out the Shramjivi Express train blast in 2005 that left at least 14 people dead and 62 injured.
JANUARY 18, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: KARNATAKA HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
The Dharwad bench of the High Court in Karnataka state has refused to confirm the death sentence imposed upon three people in a double murder case, observing that the case does not answer the test of ‘rarest of rare case’, TNN reported on January 15, 2024
- DECEMBER 30, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: RAJASTHAN POSCO COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO RAPE, DOUBLE MURDER ACCUSED YOUTH
A Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court in Rajasthan’s Pali district awarded the death penalty to a 22-year-old accused in a case involving rape and double murder, Hindustan Times reported on December 13, 2023.
DECEMBER 12, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYMOTHER OF NURSE FACING EXECUTION IN YEMEN TOLD TO EXPLAIN ‘BLOOD MONEY’
The Delhi High Court on December 11, 2023 directed Premakumari, the mother of Nimisha Priya, a Kerala nurse facing a death sentence in Yemen for her involvement in the murder of a local citizen, to furnish documents illustrating the legal option of blood
NOVEMBER 21, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: KERALA CHILD RAPE-MURDER CONVICT SENTENCED TO DEATH
One hundred and ten days after a minor girl was brutally raped and killed in Kerala's Aluva, a special court in Kochi on November 14, 2023 sentenced a migrant worker to death
NOVEMBER 15, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY AWARDED TO A MURDER ACCUSED
The Supreme Court of India, in a judgment delivered on November 10, 2023, commuted death sentence awarded to a murder accused.
NOVEMBER 9, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 65-YR-OLD GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE, MURDER OF MINOR
The Special POCSO Court on November 7, 2023 awarded death sentence to a 65-year-old man accused of rape and murder in Uttar Pradesh.
OCTOBER 23, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BRITISH MOTHER SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER MURDERING HER SIKH HUSBAND
A British mother has been sentenced to death in India after she brutally murdered her husband in front of their nine-year-old son with the help of her lover, Daily Mail reported on October 17, 2023.
OCTOBER 19, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 3 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING THREE CHILDREN IN UP
A court in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh on October 18, 2023 sentenced three persons to death for killing three children, aged between seven and nine, more than four years ago.
OCTOBER 18, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: DELHI HC COMMUTES ARIZ KHAN'S DEATH PENALTY TO A LIFE SENTENCE IN BATLA HOUSE ENCOUNTER CASE
The Delhi high court on October 12, 2023 commuted Ariz Khan's death penalty to a life sentence, a decision stemming from his conviction in the high-profile 2008 Batla House encounter.
- OCTOBER 12, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: KOLKATA HC SETS ASIDE DEATH SENTENCES IN 2013 KAMDUNI GANG RAPE AND MURDER
A Kolkata high court division bench on October 6, 2023 set aside the death sentences earlier ordered by a sessions court to three of the six convicts in the 2013 gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old college student at Kamduni village in North 24 Parganas
OCTOBER 11, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR RAPING MINOR DAUGHTER FOR 4 YEARS
The Special Court of the Additional Sessions Judge (Fast Track), Prashant Rana, awarded on October 7, 2023 death penalty in Haryana State to a 42-year-old man for raping his minor daughter for four years and impregnating her.