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
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 26-YEAR-OLD MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE-MURDER OF MINOR GIRL
A 26-year-old man was on 27 September 2021 awarded a death sentence in the Indian state of Rajasthan for raping an eight-year-old child and strangling her.
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DOCTOR’S MURDER IN TAMIL NADU
More than seven years after the killing of popular Chennai based neurosurgeon Dr S D Subbaiah the First Additional Sessions Court on 4 August 2021 sentenced seven of the ten accused to death sentences and two others to double life terms.
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC ACQUITS MAN ON DEATH ROW, SAYS COPS DIDN’T VISIT CRIME SPOT
The Patna High Court on 23 July 2021 acquitted a man, who was sentenced to death for allegedly raping and killing a 16-year-old girl under Barhara police station in Bhojpur district of Bihar.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO 24-YR-OLD MAN FOR RAPE, MURDER OF MINOR GIRL
A 24-year-old man from Madhya Pradesh on 23 July 2021 was awarded the death penalty for killing and raping a minor girl, more than two years ago.
JULY 13, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MOTHER'S GRUESOME KILLING
A local court in Maharashtra's Kolhapur on 8 July 2021 awarded death penalty to a 35-year-old man, who was convicted of killing his mother, ripping open her body and removing her organs.
JUNE 22, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: PATNA HC ACQUITS MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING WIFE
The Patna High Court on 21 June 2021 acquitted a man, who was given the death penalty by a court in Bihar's Gopalganj district for murdering his wife for dowry in 2007, for lack of evidence.
JUNE 15, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 10 AWARDED DEATH FOR 2018 MURDER OF BIHAR BUSINESSMAN
A session court in Bihar on 14 June 2021 sentenced 10 persons to death for the murder of a local businessman for extortion in 2018.
JUNE 13, 2021United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYINDIA: LULU JOB OFFER FOR EXPAT SAVED FROM DEATH ROW IN UAE
An Indian expat on death row in the UAE returned home on 9 June 2021 after languishing in jail for almost nine years in a road accident case.
MAY 25, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 12 MEMBERS OF NOTORIOUS ROBBER-GANG SENTENCED TO DEATH
A local court in Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, on 24 May 2021 sentenced 12 members of a notorious gang to death and seven others to life imprisonment for highway robberies and murders.
MAY 24, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: PATNA HIGH COURT ACQUITS 13 ACCUSED IN SENARI MASSACRE CASE
The Patna High Court on 21 May 2021 acquitted 13 accused persons in the Senari massacre case in which 34 persons were killed on 18 March 1999 by an erstwhile Maoist group in Senari village in central Bihar.
MAY 8, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDERING WIFE, RAPING DAUGHTER
In the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, The Pudukkottai Mahila Court on 6 May 2021 awarded death penalty to a man for murdering his wife and sexually assaulting his daughter.
- APRIL 28, 2021IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MADRAS HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF CONVICT TO LIFE
The Madras High Court on 26 April 2021 reduced the death sentence awarded by a lower court to life term in a sensational rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Coimbatore in 2019, which sent shock waves in Tamil Nadu.