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
- APRIL 12, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Dubai (UAE) Appeals Court upheld the sentence on...
The Dubai (UAE) Appeals Court upheld the sentence on the 28-year-old Indian, identified only as a man, for stabbing to death a former colleague in 1998
- APRIL 5, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Two men were sentenced to death for the murder of under-trial...
Two men were sentenced to death for the murder of under-trial prisoner Kabeer alias 'LTTE Kabeer'
- APRIL 3, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The National Commission for Women (NCW) rejected the...
The National Commission for Women (NCW) rejected the death penalty for rape convicts but said it could be considered in case of child and gang rape
- MARCH 29, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Six eminent Tamil writers appealed to the President...
Six eminent Tamil writers appealed to the President and Tamil Nadu Governor to grant clemency to death row convict [identified only as] Govindasamy who was still awaiting execution in a Coimbatore jail sixteen years after having committed a crime
- MARCH 28, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of the Kerala High court meted out...
A division bench of the Kerala High court meted out the death sentence to "Ripper Chacko", 54, for the gruesome murder of a five-member family, including three children, in the Idukki district in August 1988
- MARCH 28, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Subash Singh Thakur, kingpin of a breakaway faction...
Subash Singh Thakur, kingpin of a breakaway faction of the Dawood Ibrahim gang, was given the death sentence for organising a deadly shoot-out in the JJ hospital seven years previously
- MARCH 3, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Former Pakistani Parliamentarian and senior Congress...
Former Pakistani Parliamentarian and senior Congress leader, Ghulam Rasool Kar strongly condemned the excesses of Indian forces in occupied Kashmir and demanded a probe into the Indian brutalities
- FEBRUARY 26, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
India's law minister, Ram Jethmalani strongly favoured...
India's law minister, Ram Jethmalani strongly favoured abolition of capital punishment saying the useless exercise has failed to eradicate crime or act as deterrent
- JANUARY 31, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress (TRC) staged demonstrations...
Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress (TRC) staged demonstrations in Tamil Nadu, demanding the capital punishment awarded to four accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case be carried out at the earliest opportunity
- JANUARY 26, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Madras High Court upheld the President's order...
The Madras High Court upheld the President's order rejecting the mercy petition of Govindasamy, who had been sentenced to death for murdering five persons in 1984, holding that there had been no inordinate delay in the disposal of his clemency plea
- JANUARY 24, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The United Communist Party of India (UCPI) demanded...
The United Communist Party of India (UCPI) demanded execution "without any change" of the Supreme Court order sentencing to death the four accused in the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassination case
- JANUARY 20, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The District and Sessions Court in Assam handed out...
The District and Sessions Court in Assam handed out the death sentence to Dhaneswar Haloi for a double murder