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
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. 3 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the sessions court of Palghar in the Indian state of Maharashtra, sentenced three people to death for four murders committed over an inter-community marriage at Vasai in 2004.
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HIGH COURT OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCES HANDED DOWN TO MONKS FOR MURDER
the Gujarat High Court, India, commuted the death sentences handed down to four swami’s into life imprisonment and acquitted a fifth defendant in the case.
- AUGUST 31, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY ON SISTERS FOR CHILD MURDER
India's Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for two sisters convicted of kidnapping 13 children to join a gang of thieves and murdering at least five of them.
- AUGUST 29, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Jhargram Fast Track Court, India, sentenced to death Birbal Mahato, his cousin Prabir Mahato and grandfather Sudhir Mahato of Chhoto Salboni, West Midnapore.
- AUGUST 29, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF MINOR
INDIA. HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF MINOR August 29, 2006: the Allahabad High Court upheld the death sentence handed down to Bantu by the Agra additional Sessions court in 2004 for the rape and murder of a minor girl. Bantu
- AUGUST 29, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
22 YEAR OLD INDIAN AWAITS DEATH IN KUWAIT JAIL
was reported that Shoukath, a 22-year-old Indian from the state of Kerala, was on death row in Kerala after surviving a suicide pact with a Nepali girl he had a love affair with. Shoukath had been imprisoned since December 2005. However, he had only recen
- AUGUST 18, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR ‘INDIAN SPY’
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence awarded to Sarabjit Singh, alleged to be an agent of India’s Research and Analysis Wing and involved in five bomb blasts in Pakistan.
- AUGUST 11, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. BOMBAY HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE, MURDER
the Bombay High Court confirmed the death sentence awarded to Arjun Laxman Jogadia alias Abdul Rehman Shaikh, 35, for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.
- AUGUST 10, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA .HANGING CONFIRMED IN BORIVLI DOUBLE MURDER
the Bombay High court, India...
- AUGUST 5, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. NO MERCY, BOMB BLAST GUILTY MUST BE HANGED, HIGH COURT
the Delhi High Court, India, showed no mercy to Mohammad Hussain, a man who allegedly planted a bomb in a bus in 1997 during the serial blasts which shocked the Capital.
- AUGUST 3, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE TERM
taking a lenient view of the age of a man sentenced to death in a murder case, the Delhi High Court commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment.
- AUGUST 1, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DOUBLE MURDER
"Hang them by the neck till they are dead," was the verdict of additional sessions court in Mumbay, India...