India 2003
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on India in 2003
- JULY 4, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that the Chief Justice of the Calcutta...
It was reported that the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court sought views from colleagues on ways to execute people in a less painful manner
- JULY 3, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of the Karnataka High Court changed...
A division bench of the Karnataka High Court changed the life sentence of Sardar Khan to a death sentence for murdering his wife in 1997
- JUNE 27, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Additional district judge L S Pavshe sentenced to death...
Additional district judge L S Pavshe sentenced to death Shivaji Alhat, 45, a former schoolteacher, for raping and murdering 10-year-old Hemalata Nanavre of Junnar, in Pune district, on January 14, 2002
- JUNE 23, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A district court in India sentenced to death Surendrapal...
A district court in India sentenced to death Surendrapal Shivpal, who was arrested on charges of raping and murdering a seven-year-old girl in September 2002
- JUNE 16, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Sixth additional district and sessions judge, Ashoke...
Sixth additional district and sessions judge, Ashoke Kumar Chand sentenced to death Hani Mian, Suresh Sao and Hiraman Sao, three Maoist Communist Centre activists responsible for the 2001 "Beltu massacre" which killed 14 people
- JUNE 6, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Gaya additional district and sessions court in Bihar,...
Gaya additional district and sessions court in Bihar, India, sentenced eight people to death and six to life imprisonment for the mass killing of lower caste Hindus in 1988
- MAY 23, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Raghuwar Dayal was sentenced to death for raping and...
Raghuwar Dayal was sentenced to death for raping and strangling to death a woman named Kalawati
- MAY 22, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Traffic police constable Chandrajeet Yadav was sentenced...
Traffic police constable Chandrajeet Yadav was sentenced to death by Sessions judge JN Paliwal for killing five members of his family, including wife Vidya Devi and four daughters
- APRIL 30, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A court sentenced a priest, Shushil Murmu, to death...
A court sentenced a priest, Shushil Murmu, to death for sacrificing a nine-year-old child to appease a deity in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand
- APRIL 28, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Karan Singh, Kunwar Bahadur Singh and their accomplice,...
Karan Singh, Kunwar Bahadur Singh and their accomplice, 16 year old Phool Singh were sentenced to death in India after being convicted of killing five members of the same family with an axe on April 24, 1999
- APRIL 27, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
In its consultation paper on the execution of the death...
In its consultation paper on the execution of the death penalty for prisoners, the Law Commission of India said that causing death by lethal injection was simple to execute
- APRIL 24, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
India abstained from the resolution on the death penalty...
India abstained from the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- MARCH 25, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Sikh body Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee...
The Sikh body Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) called upon the Federal government to abolish the death penalty saying it would raise India's image in the eyes of the world
- MARCH 25, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Chris Pond, MP for Gravesham, threw his support behind...
Chris Pond, MP for Gravesham, threw his support behind the Sikh community by writing to Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam urging him to take Davinder Pal Singh Bhuller off death row
- MARCH 11, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Indian national Arun Abraham, sentenced to death by...
Indian national Arun Abraham, sentenced to death by Qatar's Sharia court for killing his Indian colleague, was executed by firing squad in Doha's central prison
- MARCH 4, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International said that if Portugal extradited...
Amnesty International said that if Portugal extradited Indian gangster Abu Salem, who is accused of masterminding bombings in Bombay that killed nearly 300 people, it would violate the Portuguese constitution
- FEBRUARY 26, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Eight Indian Muslims, including four who had been sentenced...
Eight Indian Muslims, including four who had been sentenced to death, were acquitted over the 1997 killing of a policeman that had led to deadly communal riots in southern India
- FEBRUARY 24, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Dharam Deva Yadav, an Indian national, was sentenced...
Dharam Deva Yadav, an Indian national, was sentenced to death after being found guilty of murdering New Zealand backpacker Diana Routley, 24, in August, 1997
- FEBRUARY 24, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
New Zealand Justice Minister Phil Goff said that the...
New Zealand Justice Minister Phil Goff said that the Government does not support the death penalty but that it is for India's justice system to decide what sentence to pass on Diana Routley's killer
- FEBRUARY 22, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Chandrasekar, 46, was sentenced to death by a fast...
Chandrasekar, 46, was sentenced to death by a fast track court after being convicted of beheaded his son, Shanmugam, with a hacksaw on September 3, 2001, following a quarrel over the latter's inability to find a job
- FEBRUARY 15, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A man reportedly named as 'Munesh' was sentenced to...
A man reportedly named as 'Munesh' was sentenced to death by a Special Sessions Court in Bulandsahar, India, for the rape and murder of a minor girl
- FEBRUARY 13, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Indian government took diplomatic steps in a last...
The Indian government took diplomatic steps in a last ditch effort to save Indian national Ayodhya Prasad Chaubey from a death sentence for importing heroin into Indonesia
- FEBRUARY 11, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
China has executed 81 Tibetan political prisoners in...
China has executed 81 Tibetan political prisoners in the past 16 years and another 208 Tibetans are in detention awaiting the same fate, a human rights group said
- FEBRUARY 7, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A study by the Law Commission on the barbarity involved...
A study by the Law Commission on the barbarity involved in methods of execution recommended that India replace hanging with lethal injection
- FEBRUARY 5, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that the Jharkhand High Court had recently...
It was reported that the Jharkhand High Court had recently commuted the death sentences of Saiyad Rizwan and Chaitali Bhowmick, husband and wife, to life imprisonment
- FEBRUARY 4, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Tibetans in the Indian capital New Delhi staged a protest...
Tibetans in the Indian capital New Delhi staged a protest against the execution of a Tibetan separatist by China, witnesses said
- JANUARY 31, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Tibetan protestors, who were arrested on January 30...
Tibetan protestors, who were arrested on January 30 in New Delhi while holding a demonstration outside the Chinese Embassy against the execution of Tibetan monk Lobsang Dhondup [on January 26 in China], went on a hunger strike inside Tihar jail, the Tibet
- JANUARY 29, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Seven people were sentenced to death and an equal number...
Seven people were sentenced to death and an equal number given life imprisonment by a sessions court in India for setting ablaze a bus which killed six persons in 1998 following a dispute over money
- JANUARY 24, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Indian Deputy Prime Minister L
Indian Deputy Prime Minister L
- JANUARY 16, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Tika Ram, a citizen of Nepal, was sentenced to death...
Tika Ram, a citizen of Nepal, was sentenced to death for murdering five members of a family in India in 1996