India 2000
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on India in 2000
- DECEMBER 23, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Talmiz Ahmad said...
Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Talmiz Ahmad said that India and Saudi Arabia would sign an agreement for co-operation in combating drug trafficking during Indian Foreign Minister
- DECEMBER 21, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Jharkhand High Court has upheld the death sentence...
The Jharkhand High Court has upheld the death sentence of Surendra Singh Rautela alias Bengali
- DECEMBER 21, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A total of 52 Indians were awarded the death penalty...
A total of 52 Indians were awarded the death penalty in different countries during the last three years, Indian Junior Minister for External Affairs Ajit Kumar Panja informed Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Indian Parliament)
- DECEMBER 18, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Declining a reference made by the District and Sessions...
Declining a reference made by the District and Sessions Judge, Hisar, a division bench comprising Justice HS Bedi and AS Garg commuted the death sentence of Kuldip Singh, a resident of Gorakhpur village to life imprisonment
- NOVEMBER 19, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indian national was executed in Dammam in the Eastern...
An Indian national was executed in Dammam in the Eastern Region (Saudi Arabia)
- OCTOBER 26, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an [unidentified] Indian man...
Saudi Arabia executed an [unidentified] Indian man convicted of killing a Saudi man over a financial dispute, state television reported
- OCTOBER 21, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Delhi High Court upheld a death sentence given...
The Delhi High Court upheld a death sentence given to Shakila and Babu Lal for sacrificing one-and-half-year-old girl in a witchcraft fertility ritual
- OCTOBER 18, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
In a report on rights violations by soldiers, the Army...
In a report on rights violations by soldiers, the Army said it had investigated 1,426 complaints and punished 124 soldiers posted in Kashmir and the Northeast over the past 11 years
- OCTOBER 18, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Describing a cold-blooded murder as the "rarest of...
Describing a cold-blooded murder as the "rarest of rare cases", a city court sentenced Ashok Kumar Pandey to death for killing his 22-year-old pregnant wife and 19-month-old daughter in New Delhi in September 1996
- OCTOBER 4, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani said that there was...
Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani said that there was no ruling that the death sentence of a prisoner would automatically be commuted to life imprisonment if the state failed to execute the sentence within a year
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indian man, Janjana Arana, was executed in Saudi...
An Indian man, Janjana Arana, was executed in Saudi Arabia for murdering a Saudi man with a hatchet after a quarrel
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an [unidentified] Indian man...
Saudi Arabia executed an [unidentified] Indian man for smuggling heroin into the country
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Sago Gham Mrogan, an Indian man convicted of smuggling...
Sago Gham Mrogan, an Indian man convicted of smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia was beheaded, the Interior Ministry said
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Three gangsters of Dubai-based organisation were given...
Three gangsters of Dubai-based organisation were given capital punishment for a murderous attack on former city mayor Milind Vaidya in March 1999
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A Ugandan Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence...
A Ugandan Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence passed by the High Court against two Indian brothers, Kooky Sharmar and Davinder Kumar, for killing Kooky's wife Renu Joshi in 1997
- AUGUST 29, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Pondicherry Chief Sessions Judge, handed down a...
The Pondicherry Chief Sessions Judge, handed down a death sentence to 27-year-old Kamal Shah in the sensational Parvathi Shah murder case
- AUGUST 18, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indian, Abdel Mussa Sheikh Mussa was decapitated...
An Indian, Abdel Mussa Sheikh Mussa was decapitated by the sword in Riyadh, the Saudi Interior Ministry said
- AUGUST 18, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Five people, including two women, were condemned to...
Five people, including two women, were condemned to death for killing 12 people in Odra village in March 1994
- AUGUST 13, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Additional District and Session court in Sidharthnagar...
The Additional District and Session court in Sidharthnagar sentenced to death Ramji Tiwari for shooting dead four persons in Chaurihari village in the Sidharthnagar area in October, 1997
- AUGUST 1, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court in New Delhi upheld the death sentence...
The Supreme Court in New Delhi upheld the death sentence imposed on an [unidentified] Indian man
- JULY 22, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A number of Indian legal experts and social rights...
A number of Indian legal experts and social rights activists called for the abolition of the death penalty in the country, saying it had no deterring effect as perceived in some quarters
- JULY 5, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of the Allahabad High Court set aside...
A division bench of the Allahabad High Court set aside the death sentence on three prisoners for committing two murders in Etah on July 20, 1999
- JUNE 12, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Qatar said it had executed three Indians for murder,...
Qatar said it had executed three Indians for murder, the first time the Gulf Arab state has imposed the death penalty in over three decades
- JUNE 11, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of smuggling...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of smuggling drugs into the kingdom
- 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