India 2003
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on India in 2003
- DECEMBER 21, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court of India upheld the death penalty...
The Supreme Court of India upheld the death penalty awarded to Suhsil Murmu for sacrificing a nine-year-old child to appease a deity in Jharkhand
- DECEMBER 18, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's cabinet...
Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's cabinet gave the green light for the death sentence for those guilty of making fake pharmaceutical products in the country, officials said
- DECEMBER 14, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court in New Delhi, India, sentenced to...
The Supreme Court in New Delhi, India, sentenced to death Shushil Murmu for 'sacrificing' his neighbour's nine-year child in 1996 to the Goddess Kali to gain prosperity and well being seven
- DECEMBER 9, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The District Additional Sessions Court in Kozhikode,...
The District Additional Sessions Court in Kozhikode, India, sentenced to death Balan Nair, a 53-year-old man, after finding him guilty of murdering three of his neighbours at Moorad in January 2001
- DECEMBER 8, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that 36 prisoners on death row for...
It was reported that 36 prisoners on death row for various crimes in India's Bhagalpur prison had not been executed because there was no hangman
- NOVEMBER 19, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Delhi High Court acquitted Sunil Kumar Mandal,...
The Delhi High Court acquitted Sunil Kumar Mandal, a man who had been sentenced to death by an Additional Sessions Court on November 2, 2001, for burning his wife for dowry
- NOVEMBER 18, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Allahabad High Court, India, commuted nine out...
The Allahabad High Court, India, commuted nine out of thirteen death sentences and acquitted the four remaining convicts of their death sentences
- NOVEMBER 11, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Allahabad high court, India, commuted six death...
The Allahabad high court, India, commuted six death sentences, in four separate cases
- NOVEMBER 7, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A court in India's capital, Delhi, sentenced to death...
A court in India's capital, Delhi, sentenced to death a former politician who shot his wife and burned her dismembered body in a restaurant oven
- OCTOBER 30, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Thalasserry district and sessions court, India,...
The Thalasserry district and sessions court, India, sentenced to death M
- OCTOBER 29, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Delhi High court, India, acquitted two people originally...
The Delhi High court, India, acquitted two people originally sentenced to death in the December 13, 2001, terrorist attack on Parliament, lecturer Sayed Abdul Rahman Geelani and Afsan Guru, a woman
- OCTOBER 15, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A Dubai court in the United Arab Emirates, sentenced...
A Dubai court in the United Arab Emirates, sentenced four Indians to death for the murder of a well-known Indian businessman who was reportedly gunned down in broad daylight in a reported gangland revenge killing
- OCTOBER 12, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Capital punishment forecloses the chance for reformation...
Capital punishment forecloses the chance for reformation and hence should be repealed as has been done by most civilised nations, former Indian Supreme Court Judge, K
- OCTOBER 10, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Lahu Dhekane was sentenced to death by an Additional...
Lahu Dhekane was sentenced to death by an Additional and Sessions Court in Pune, India, for the 4 July 2003 abduction, and eventual murder, of Amit Sonawane, 13, from Nira
- OCTOBER 3, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Singapore prison officials hanged Arunprakash Vaithilingam,...
Singapore prison officials hanged Arunprakash Vaithilingam, 25, an Indian immigrant worker, for the murder of a flat mate on 22 December 2001
- OCTOBER 1, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indian court sentenced to death a man, identified...
An Indian court sentenced to death a man, identified only as Poonaji, who was convicted of burning his wife, four daughters and a neighbour to death in a fit of rage
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indian court sentenced Dara Singh to death and 12...
An Indian court sentenced Dara Singh to death and 12 others to life imprisonment for killing an Australian Christian missionary and his two young sons in a mob attack
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Chandrajeet Yadav, an ex traffic police constable sentenced...
Chandrajeet Yadav, an ex traffic police constable sentenced to death for murdering his wife Vidya Devi along with his four daughters, Neetu, Kiran, Madhu and Suman, had his conviction upheld by a high court in India but had his punishment reduced to life
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Justice Malimath Committee on Reforms of Criminal...
The Justice Malimath Committee on Reforms of Criminal Justice System made a stand against application of the death penalty for rapists and instead recommended life imprisonment for offenders
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
September 15-16, 2003: an HOC delegation comprising...
September 15-16, 2003: an HOC delegation comprising Italian MP Enrico Buemi, Regional Counsellor for Lombardy (Italy) Alessandro Litta Modignani and HOC Board Member Anna Zammit, visited India to lobby for support of a worldwide moratorium on executions t
- AUGUST 30, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Three people were sentenced to death and one to life...
Three people were sentenced to death and one to life imprisonment by the Kolkata city sessions court, India, for murder
- AUGUST 27, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Indian Supreme Court imposed the death penalty...
The Indian Supreme Court imposed the death penalty on Keraj Ram, a man who, having doubts regarding his wife's fidelity, killed "in a cruel and diabolic manner" his wife, children and brother-in-law
- AUGUST 21, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Thalassery Additional District and Sessions Court...
The Thalassery Additional District and Sessions Court awarded death sentences to five CPM activists for the murder of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Vice-president K T Jayakrishnan in 1999
- AUGUST 17, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Jail authorities in the eastern Indian state of Orissa...
Jail authorities in the eastern Indian state of Orissa suspended their search for a hangman after the death sentence of Dayanidhi Bishnoi, 35, was commuted to life imprisonment
- AUGUST 13, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A government committee has recommended the death penalty...
A government committee has recommended the death penalty for those who sell or manufacture fake pharmaceutical drugs, Indian Health Minister Sushma Swaraj said
- AUGUST 10, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Indian Law Commission said that public opinion...
The Indian Law Commission said that public opinion on the mode of executing prisoners on death row favoured an amendment to the law, which stipulated hanging as the method of execution
- AUGUST 7, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
India's Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of...
India's Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of Ram Pal, a man convicted of murdering 21 people including women and children, to life imprisonment as the murders he committed 17 years ago appeared to have been an act of extreme provocation
- AUGUST 5, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Indian Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence...
The Indian Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence awarded to four men convicted of killing 15 people at a wedding party in a village in Punjab's Amritsar district in 1991 to avenge their humiliation at the hands of the bridegroom's father
- JULY 10, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Indian Health Minister Sushma...
It was reported that Indian Health Minister Sushma Swaraj said he wanted the death penalty for manufacturers of "spurious drugs"
- JULY 7, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
"The prison department in Jharkhand has a strange problem:...
"The prison department in Jharkhand has a strange problem: The state's jail has 12 men who have been sentenced to death, but no hangman to execute these sentences," the Hindustan Times reported