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
- MARCH 9, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC STAYS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE MURDER
Justices Reddy and Nijjaar of the Indian Supreme Court stayed the death sentence of B A Umesh of Karnataka, for raping and murdering widow Jayashri in 1998.
- MARCH 3, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: FIVE IN GUJARAT WAITING FOR THE GALLOWS
“So far there are five different people from Gujarat state who have been ordered to be hanged and their applications are pending in courts,” additional director-general of police (prisons) PC Thakur said in India. However, sources said that the exact stat
- MARCH 3, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: PARDON FOR DEATH ROW CONVICTS
Indian President Pratibha Patil pardoned four people on death row.
- MARCH 2, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: CONVICTS ON DEATH ROW NOT TO BE KEPT IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT: HC
from now, convicts facing the death penalty and confined in various jails of Punjab, Haryana and UT, Chandigarh in India must not be kept in solitary confinement.
- MARCH 2, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE FAVOURS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR HIJACKERS
in India, the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture on the Anti-Hijacking (Amendment) Bill 2010 favoured the death penalty for hijackers
- MARCH 2, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: JUDGE SLAMS GOVT FOR DELAY IN HANGING AFZAL GURU
Indian Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra, who sentenced the December 13, 2001...
- MARCH 2, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF KILLER OF WIFE, 4 DAUGHTERS
Justices Harjit Singh Bedi and C K Prasad of the Indian Supreme Court commuted the death penalty of Vishweshwar Kol for killing his second wife Leelawati Bai and four daughters on October 19, 2003, in Madhya Pradesh, to life imprisonment.
- MARCH 1, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 6 GET DEATH PENALTY AFTER 15 YRS OF TRIAL
in India, Kathua Principal Sessions Judge Jang Bhadur Singh Jamwal sentenced six people to death for killing Yash Paul Singh alias Boolla, a royalty contractor, on April 7, 1995.
- MARCH 1, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: GODHRA PENALTY: GALLOWS FOR 11
Special judge P R Patel of the special court at Sabarmati Jail in India sentenced 11 people to death for the Godhra train burning case that left 59 kar sevaks dead on February 27, 2002.
- FEBRUARY 27, 2011United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING IN VISA FRAUD OPERATION
limousine driver AA, 37, and office manager HM, 27, both Indian nationals, were sentenced to death by the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance in the United Arab Emirates for killing Pakistani national Masoud al Rahman in Al Hamriya August 20, 2009 over
- FEBRUARY 26, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH TERM FOR DOUBLE MURDER
justice Shiva Sharma of the Sirsa district and sessions court in India sentenced local resident Krishan Lal alias Pali to death for murdering the wife and mother of a local trader, Trishna and Mamta, at their residence in Rori village of the district near
- FEBRUARY 22, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC SAVES MAN CONVICTED FOR MURDER FROM THE GALLOWS
a bench of justices Sirpurkar and Thakur of the Indian Supreme Court...