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
- NOVEMBER 9, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: PLEA FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Justice Ajit Singh Bains, president of the Punjab Human Rights Organisation, appealed for the abolition of the capital punishment in India.
- NOVEMBER 4, 2009Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA BEHEADS 1 INDIAN, 2 LANKANS FOR MURDER
Two Sri Lankans, one of them a woman, and an Indian were beheaded by the sword in the Red Sea city of Jeddah for theft and murder, the Saudi interior ministry said.
- NOVEMBER 1, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MERCY FOR MAN ON DEATH ROW SINCE 1998
a man identified as Govindasami, who had been on death row in India since 1998, had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment by President Pratibha Patil.
- OCTOBER 30, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: BAJRANGI'S AIDE GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER
a sessions court in Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh, India...
- OCTOBER 30, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: COURT AWARDS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO THREE IN BIHAR
at a local court in Bihar, India, Additional Sessions Judge Upendra Bhushan Mishra sentenced Dipak Rai, Jagat Rai and Bacha Babu Rai to death
- OCTOBER 30, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC ALLOWS REVIEW OF ITS DEATH PENALTY DECISION
the Indian Supreme Court allowed a review after restoring the death penalty of a murder convict without giving him a hearing.
- OCTOBER 29, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE
at a local court in Ropar, India, Additional Sessions Judge Mandeep Pannu awarded the death sentence to Jagjit Singh for the murder of three members of a family.
- OCTOBER 28, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: PC RECOMMENDS CLEMENCY TO DEATH ROW CONVICT
Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram has recommended to the President commutation of the death sentence of a prisoner in Tamil Nadu, R Govindaswami.
- OCTOBER 18, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH PENALTY BY UNLF
the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) in Imphal, India, awarded the death penalty to Pukhrambam Mangoljao for killing Soram Prabhakar, alias Thoi, 5, after snatching gold earrings from him.
- OCTOBER 10, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: CAMPAIGN AGAINST DEATH PENALTY STARTS FROM PUNJAB
a signature campaign against the death penalty was launched in India by the Dal Khalsa and the Khalsa Action Committee on the occasion of World Day against the Death Penalty.
- OCTOBER 8, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN ON DEATH ROW FOR KILLING CHILD ACQUITTED
a division bench of Justices Bilal Nazki and A R Joshi of the Bombay High Court in India acquitted Nallasopara resident Virendra Vasudev Sada, alias Shahrukh Khan, 28, of raping and murdering his neighbour's daughter.
- OCTOBER 7, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE IN TWO CASES
a man was awarded the death sentence by Fast track court Judge K R Jinan in Thodupuzha, India, for hacking to death his mother and maternal grandfather and two others.