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
- DECEMBER 27, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: TWO GET DEATH BY HANGING
in India, Junagadh Additional Sessions judge G M Patel sentenced Mohan Hamir and Mahesh Chauhan to death for killing Chandni Vinjvadia, 15, on May 13, 2007.
- DECEMBER 23, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MP MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING PARENTS, NEPHEW
Shyam Singh, alias Bhima, was sentenced to death by First Class Additional Sessions Judge Mahesh Bhadkariya for killing his father Suram, mother Sahoda Bai and nephew Amans when his parents refused to give him money to buy liquor.
- DECEMBER 22, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
Rasheed, a native of Meenangadi in Wayanad, was sentenced to death by the Ernakulam Principal Sessions court in India for hacking Bindu, 39, to death while attempting to rob her in Pachalam in Kochi.
DECEMBER 22, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BILL PROVIDING FOR DEATH SENTENCE FOR SABOTAGE OF PIPELINES PASSED
Parliamentary approval was accorded in India to a bill that makes acts of terrorism aimed
- DECEMBER 21, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
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- DECEMBER 20, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE
in India, Justices M Jaichandren and S Nagamuthu of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court commuted the death sentence of Anbarasu to life imprisonment and fined him Rs 60000.
- DECEMBER 15, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: JHARKHAND HC ACQUITS CHILKARI DEATH ROW CONVICTS
in India, division bench of Justices R K Merathia and D N Upadhyay of the Jharkhand High Court acquitted four men on death row due to lack of evidence
- DECEMBER 12, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: BOMBAY HIGH COURT DEFERS JUDGEMENT ON DEATH SENTENCE IN 2003 BLASTS CASE
a Division Bench of Justice A M Khanwilkar and Justice P D Kode of the Bombay High Court in India deferred its judgement on the death sentences of Ashrat Ansari, 32, his aide Hanif Sayed Anees, 46, and Hanif's wife Fehmida Sayed, 43.
- DECEMBER 6, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
GUJARAT (INDIA): DEATH PENALTY INTRODUCED FOR TOXIC ALCOHOL
The illegal manufacture and sale of toxic alcohol in the western Indian state of Gujarat
- DECEMBER 3, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: ASIAN GANG MEMBERS GET DEATH SENTENCES FOR MURDER
Qayan, Isk and Parshan were sentenced to death by a three-judge panel of the Jeddah General Court for the murder and robbery of a real estate agent in Jeddah in 2007.
- DECEMBER 1, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: INDIAN PRISONER’S DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED, LHC TOLD
the superintendent of the Lahore Central Jail informed the Lahore High Court that Indian prisoner Surjit Singh was sent to the jail in 1985 as a condemned prisoner but now he is being treated as life imprisonment convict in the light of the general amnest
- NOVEMBER 30, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: PETITION IN HIGH COURT AGAINST DEATH PENALTY
in Kochi, India, lawyer Manju Antoney lodged a petition with the Kerala high court challenging the death penalty.