India 2009
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News on India in 2009
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DR MAHAJAN MURDER CASE: DEATH SENTENCE QUASHED
in India, the Bombay High court quashed the death sentences of Leena Deosthali and her daughter Deepti.
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: COURT GRANTS DEATH TO FOUR ACCUSED
an ADJ (III) court in Ghaziabad, India, sentenced four men to death for the murder of four members of a family in Nabipur, Muradnagar.
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: TWO GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR TEENAGER’S MURDER
in India, 3rd Additional Sessions Judge C J Akarte sentenced Rajesh Shivprasad Sakhre...
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC CAUTIONS GOVERNMENT AGAINST SITTING ON MERCY PLEAS
the Indian Supreme Court advised the government to expeditiously dispose of mercy pleas of prisoners sentenced to death.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC AWARDS DEATH TO MAN WHO HACKED WIFE, 5 CHILDREN
the Indian Supreme Court awarded capital punishment to a man identified as Jagdiah who hacked his wife and five children to death with a long knife on August 19, 2005.
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: KHURSHID CALLS FOR RETHINK ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
in India a Union Minister called for a rethink on the issue of Capital punishment.
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH FOR PRISONER FACING LIFE TERM
in Chatra, India, Additional District and Sessions Judge (fast track-II) Sudhir Kumar Sinha...
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: TWO AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE IN KIDNAP AND MURDER CASE
in Ghaziabad, India, Additional District Judge found Rajesh Panda and Vishal guilty of kidnapping Dhanajay, 6, for Rs 10 lakh ransom on September 6, 2004, and murdering him. His body was found on October 3, 2004.
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC ACQUITS PANDHER IN NITHARI KILLINGS CASE
Justices Imtiyaz Murtaza and K N Pandey of the Allahabad High Court in India acquitted death row prisoner Moninder Singh Pandher but upheld the death sentence against his domestic help Surinder Koli.
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: JUDGE ORDERS EXECUTION OF DEATH SENTENCE
in India, a Lohardaga sessions judge ordered the execution of Mofil Khan and Mobarak Khan on September 18, 2009.
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HIZBUL MILITANT GETS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
a Hizbul Mujahideen militant was sentenced to death by a court in India’s Reasi district for murder. Principal
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: KASHMIRI GETS DEATH SENTENCE
in occupied Kashmir, India, Reasi Principal Sessions Judge A K Koul awarded the death penalty to Abdul Rashid for killing a 70 year-old man and two minor girls in Mahore in 2008
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: IKHWANI GETS DEATH PENALTY
in Kupwara, India, Principal District and Sessions Judge Rasheed Ali Dar sentenced government gunman...
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE TERM
the Indian Supreme Court commuted the death sentence awarded to 35-year-old Sushil Kumar, of Jalandhar, to life imprisonment
- AUGUST 31, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DELHI HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
the New Delhi High Court in India commuted the death sentence of a man who murdered a witness on court premises. Shree Gopal shot dead eunuch Neelam inside the Tis Hazari court premises in 2003.
- AUGUST 28, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC ADMITS APPEAL OF 2003 BLASTS CONVICT FACING DEATH PENALTY
Justices Bilal Nazki and A R Joshi of the Bombay High Court in India allowed an appeal by death row inmate Ashrat Ansari.
- AUGUST 26, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: TWO MAOISTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
a local court awarded the death sentence to two Maoists in Chatra district, India.
- AUGUST 21, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: COURT ORDERS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO TWO
a court sentenced Naresh Harijan and Ram Harijan to death for a murder in Bihar's Banka district in India
- AUGUST 19, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HANGING OF MAN WHO RAPED, KILLED DAUGHTER STAYED
Justices DK Jain and 19/08 HL Dattu of the Indian Supreme Court stayed the execution of a man convicted of raping and killing his four-year-old daughter on June 28, 2007
- AUGUST 18, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: AWARDING DEATH PENALTY TO BE MADE TOUGHER: SC
the Supreme Court said judges, while awarding death penalty in mechanical consonance with the 1980 ‘Bachan Singh’ judgment, appear to have lost sight of vital ingredients – “the lesser alternative (life imprisonment) is unquestionably foreclosed” and “obj
- AUGUST 15, 2009Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR BYNDOOR YOUTH
Abdul Majeed, 27, of Navunda, near Byndoor in India, was awarded capital punishment by a Saudi Arabian court for transporting narcotic drugs.
- AUGUST 12, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: ON DEATH ROW SINCE 1991, HE WAITS FOR HANGMAN
Piara Singh, 80, cannot walk or see and his dementia gets worse by the day. Piara, a murder convict sentenced to death in 1996, has been languishing in Amritsar jail since 1991, mostly in solitary confinement, with neither death nor mercy rescuing him fro
- AUGUST 6, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GIVEN DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING MINOR NEPHEWS
a bench of the Delhi High Court in India comprising Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Indermeet Kaur upheld...
AUGUST 6, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH
three people, including a woman, were sentenced to death for their involvement in two
- JULY 30, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO MAN FOR MURDERING NEIGHBOUR
a court in Allahabad, India, awarded the death sentence to Sanjay, a resident of Uttaraon police station area in the district’s trans- Ganga region, for hacking to death his neighbour Kullu on May 13, 2005.
- JULY 29, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HOOCH: BILL ON DEATH PENALTY CLEARED
following the Ahmedabad hooch tragedy, the Gujarat Assembly passed a Bill proposing stringent punishment, up to death penalty, to deal with the illicit liquor trade.
- JULY 29, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH PENALTY ADDED TO K'TAKA TERROR LAW
the state legislature in Bangalore, India, approved a slew of amendments to the Karnataka Control of Organised Crime Act (KCOCA), allowing for the death sentence for terrorism.
- JULY 26, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC SETS DEADLINE FOR DISPOSING OF EXECUTION APPLICATIONS
a single bench of Punjab and Haryana High Court in India set December 24, 2009, as the deadline for Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh to dispose of the execution applications pending for five years or more.
- JULY 24, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: EXECUTION OF DELHI GIRL MURDER CONVICT STAYED
the execution in India of the son of a Delhi Police sub inspector, who was sentenced to death for murdering his girl friend...
- JULY 22, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SARABJIT SINGH FILES FRESH APPLICATION IN SUPREME COURT
a fresh application has been filed before the Pakistan Supreme Court seeking review of its decision to dismiss the Indian death row inmate Sarabjit Singh's petition challenging his death penalty.