India 2006
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News on India in 2006
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MINOR’S RAPE AND MURDER IN BIHAR
a fast track court in Bihar, India, sentenced Munilal Sharma to death for raping and killing the four-year-old niece of his neighbour Dilip Kumar Sharma on April 29, 2004.
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIAN SPARED DEATH SENTENCE IN SINGAPORE
an Indian taxi driver facing trial for murdering his wife was spared the death sentence by a court in Singapore. G. Krishnasamy Naidu, who was earlier handed the death sentence for murdering his wife Chitrabathy Narayanasamy, now faced either 10 years in
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. KERALA HIGH COURT CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
the Kerala High Court, India, confirmed the death sentence of a man accused in the murder of a six-member family in Aluva on January 6, 2001.
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. 3 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the sessions court of Palghar in the Indian state of Maharashtra, sentenced three people to death for four murders committed over an inter-community marriage at Vasai in 2004.
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HIGH COURT OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCES HANDED DOWN TO MONKS FOR MURDER
the Gujarat High Court, India, commuted the death sentences handed down to four swami’s into life imprisonment and acquitted a fifth defendant in the case.
- AUGUST 31, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY ON SISTERS FOR CHILD MURDER
India's Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for two sisters convicted of kidnapping 13 children to join a gang of thieves and murdering at least five of them.
- AUGUST 29, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Jhargram Fast Track Court, India, sentenced to death Birbal Mahato, his cousin Prabir Mahato and grandfather Sudhir Mahato of Chhoto Salboni, West Midnapore.
- AUGUST 29, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF MINOR
INDIA. HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF MINOR August 29, 2006: the Allahabad High Court upheld the death sentence handed down to Bantu by the Agra additional Sessions court in 2004 for the rape and murder of a minor girl. Bantu
- AUGUST 29, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
22 YEAR OLD INDIAN AWAITS DEATH IN KUWAIT JAIL
was reported that Shoukath, a 22-year-old Indian from the state of Kerala, was on death row in Kerala after surviving a suicide pact with a Nepali girl he had a love affair with. Shoukath had been imprisoned since December 2005. However, he had only recen
- AUGUST 18, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR ‘INDIAN SPY’
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence awarded to Sarabjit Singh, alleged to be an agent of India’s Research and Analysis Wing and involved in five bomb blasts in Pakistan.
- AUGUST 11, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. BOMBAY HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE, MURDER
the Bombay High Court confirmed the death sentence awarded to Arjun Laxman Jogadia alias Abdul Rehman Shaikh, 35, for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.
- AUGUST 10, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA .HANGING CONFIRMED IN BORIVLI DOUBLE MURDER
the Bombay High court, India...
- AUGUST 5, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. NO MERCY, BOMB BLAST GUILTY MUST BE HANGED, HIGH COURT
the Delhi High Court, India, showed no mercy to Mohammad Hussain, a man who allegedly planted a bomb in a bus in 1997 during the serial blasts which shocked the Capital.
- AUGUST 3, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE TERM
taking a lenient view of the age of a man sentenced to death in a murder case, the Delhi High Court commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment.
- AUGUST 1, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DOUBLE MURDER
"Hang them by the neck till they are dead," was the verdict of additional sessions court in Mumbay, India...
- JULY 31, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER 27 DAYS TRIAL
following a 27 day trial, the Buxar district and sessions court, India...
- JULY 29, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HUNGER STRIKE PLANNED AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE
the Vadhasiksha Virudha Samithi, a forum campaigning against capital punishment...
- JULY 28, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER
the Madras High Court, India, commuted into life the death sentences handed down to Om Prakash and Lakshmanan by a Fast Track Court (FTC) for the murder of Dr. Mohan Kumar in June 1995.
- JULY 24, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FREED AFTER RETRIAL
it was reported that thirty-five-year-old Mohammed Najir Mohiddin, a resident of Kalyan...
- JULY 19, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HIGH COURT REVERSES DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER, SETS MAN FREE
the Madhya Pradesh High Court, India...
- JULY 14, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT. INDIAN NATIONAL EXECUTED FOR MURDER
Shakarullah Ansari, a native of Uttar Pradesh, India, was hanged till death at 8:15 am Kuwait time on charges of murdering his employer.
- JULY 11, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN CONVICTED OF KILLING FELLOW INMATE
a District and Sessions Court in Sagar, India, sentenced to death one person and awarded life imprisonment to two others charged with a murder that took place in Sagar central jail.
- JULY 1, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. THREE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TEMPLE RAID
an Indian court sentenced three men to death for masterminding a militant attack on the Akshardham Hindu temple that killed 35 people in 2002, including the attackers.
- JUNE 30, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
the Punjab and Haryana High Court, India...
the Punjab and Haryana High Court, India...
- JUNE 26, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. DEATH FOR MAN CONVICTED OF BURNING WIFE AND KIDS
the Bombay High Court, India, upheld the death sentence handed by a trial court to Ajit Singh Gujral for burning his wife and three children in their Sher-e-Punjab flat in Andheri.
- JUNE 20, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
KUWAIT. INDIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
an Indian national in Kuwait was sentenced to death by a criminal court for killing his lover and later trying to commit suicide.
- MAY 25, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
a court in New Delhi sentenced to death Jameel Ahmed and Dilshad for murder. The two, both from India’s Uttar Pradesh state were found guilty of killing Gyani Ram after suspecting him of having an affair with Jameel’s wife.
- MAY 10, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. TWO INDIANS TO BE BEHEADED
an Islamic court in Saudi Arabia has awarded capital punishment to two Indians for smuggling narcotics into the kingdom about two-and-a-half years ago, reports reaching from Damam said.
- MAY 6, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. DEATH SENTENCE FOR HUMAN SACRIFICE
a district and sessions court in Sagar, India, sentenced to death Mahesh Kurmi...
- MAY 6, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. HIGH COURT CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KIDNAPPING
the Bombay High Court, India, confirmed the death sentence awarded to Dnyaneshwar Borkar, 26, convicted by a Pune Sessions court for abducting and killing a school boy.