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
- JUNE 1, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Additional district session judge M H Shah meted out...
Additional district session judge M H Shah meted out the death sentence to Vashram Narsinh Rajpara for killing his wife and four daughters by setting them on fire while they were sleeping on May 22, 1999
- MAY 23, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of killing...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of killing a Saudi man and his son
- MAY 12, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Mumbai city civil and sessions court sentenced...
The Mumbai city civil and sessions court sentenced Shekhar Kadam and Subhash Bind to death for murder
- MAY 12, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of smuggling...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of smuggling an unspecified quantity of heroin into the Kingdom, the Saudi Interior Ministry said
- MAY 7, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A Delhi court sentenced Raj Kumar to death for brutally...
A Delhi court sentenced Raj Kumar to death for brutally killing his sister-in-law and six-month-old nephew in 1994 on apprehending that his father was not going to not give him a share of the ancestral property
- MAY 5, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Daily Telegraph criticised the Indian Supreme Court...
The Daily Telegraph criticised the Indian Supreme Court in New Delhi for annulling the death sentences passed on "three child murderers because they did not kill children for any of the usual horrible reasons, but to please the gods
- MAY 3, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court set aside a lower court order sentencing...
The Supreme Court set aside a lower court order sentencing to death four people for sacrificing three children at Newasa in 1992
- APRIL 28, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Two Indian men found guilty of the death of two people...
Two Indian men found guilty of the death of two people were executed in Saudi Arabia
- APRIL 25, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The governor of India's southern state of Tamil Nadu...
The governor of India's southern state of Tamil Nadu commuted the death sentence imposed on Nalini, a main defendant in the 1991 killing of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, to life imprisonment
- APRIL 21, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A 37-year-old woman was sentenced to death by a court...
A 37-year-old woman was sentenced to death by a court in Combaitore for murdering three persons, including her husband and mother-in-law, in 1998
- 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'