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 4, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: NAGPUR MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING, MURDERING GIRL, 5, IN 2019
A man was sentenced to death on June 3, 2024 by a Nagpur court for raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl in 2019.
MAY 29, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: UTTARAKHAND HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF MAN WHO RAPED HIS 5 YEAR OLD COUSIN SISTER MULTIPLE TIMES
The Uttarakhand High Court has commuted the death sentence of a man convicted of repeatedly raping his five-year-old orphaned cousin, Lawbeat reported on May 28, 2024.
MAY 27, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: THREE, INCLUDING MOTHER, SON, SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KERALA FOR MURDERING 71-YEAR-OLD NEIGHBOUR
A Kerala court on May 22, 2024 sentenced three accused, including a mother and her son, to death for murdering their 71-year-old neighbour near Vizhinjam in Thiruvananthapuram in 2022.
- MAY 8, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: KARNATAKA COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO 2 IN HATE CRIME CASE
In a landmark ruling, the District Sessions Court in Vijayapura has delivered a verdict of justice in a harrowing case of honour killing, sentencing two perpetrators to death by hanging, while imposing life imprisonment and hefty fines on others involved,
MAY 6, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: CBI COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO FOUR CONVICTS IN NUH GANGRAPES, DOUBLE MURDER CASE
A special CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) court in Haryana's Panchkula awarded the death sentence to four convicts in the 2016 Nuh gangrapes and double murder case on May 4, 2024, officials said.
APRIL 29, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HC COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY TO LIFE
The Kerala High Court has modified the death sentence awarded to Narendra Kumar, a native of Uttar Pradesh and the sole accused in the Parampuzha triple murder case, to life imprisonment without remission for 20 years for the murder offence.
- APRIL 22, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: LUDHIANA WOMAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR BURYING TODDLER ALIVE
Ludhiana resident Neelam Kaur, 38, was on April 18, 2024 sentenced to death for burying alive Dilroz Kaur, the two-and-a-half-year-old daughter of her neighbour, Harpreet Singh, who is a police constable, after an argument with his family three years ago.
- APRIL 16, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: BOMBAY HC UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN WHO MURDERED 5 MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court on March 27, 2024 confirmed the death penalty given to a 46-year-old labourer from Nagpur for murdering five members of his family in June 2018 over a land dispute.
APRIL 9, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN PUNE FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A MINOR GIRL AND KILLING HER
Additional Sessions Judge and District Judge BP Kshirsagar sentenced Tejas Mahipati Dalvi to death for the rape, kidnapping, and murder of a minor.
- APRIL 1, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DNA EVIDENCE FREES MAN AFTER 11 YEARS IN RAPE-MURDER CASE
In a shocking turn of events in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, a man sentenced to death thrice for the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl was acquitted after 11 years, Law Trend reported on March 30, 2024
MARCH 26, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF FORMER ODISHA BLOCK CHAIRMAN
In a landmark verdict, a court in Odisha’s Keonjhar district on March 3, 2024 sentenced five individuals to death for the murder of former Anandpur block chairman Ram Chandra Behera.
MARCH 25, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 8 DACOITS GIVEN DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING THREE
Ten years after three members of a Bareilly-based income tax inspector's family were murdered during a dacoity by a gang of eight, including two women, a city court has awarded capital punishment to all of them on March 8, 2024.