India 2009
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News on India in 2009
- JULY 18, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
additional and sessions judge C.Taanti of the Tenughat court in Bokaro...
additional and sessions judge C.Taanti of the Tenughat court in Bokaro...
- JULY 18, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: FATHER GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE AND MURDER
a division bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in India awarded the death sentence to a man for raping and murdering his four year old daughter.
- JULY 17, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN SODOMY MURDER CASE
a local court in Chandigarh, India, awarded capital punishment to a man for sodomising and murdering a six-year-old boy.
- JULY 16, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: GUJARAT PROPOSES DEATH PENALTY FOR HOOCH DEALERS
the Gujarat State Government in India decided to frame a new law with provisions for the death sentence for hooch dealers.
JULY 6, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: EXECUTION BY HANGING TO CONTINUE
India's top court has refused to replace hanging with lethal injection as the country's
- JUNE 30, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE/MURDER
at a local court in Indore, India, Additional District Session Judge Justice S K Srivastav sentenced Shankarlal Jogi, 55, to death for the rape and murder of a minor girl.
- JUNE 24, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN COURT REJECTS INDIAN'S DEATH SENTENCE APPEAL
Pakistan's Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Indian man Sarabjit Singh to have his 1991 death sentence for spying and terrorism in Mumbai overturned.
- JUNE 21, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: SC ADJOURNS SARABJIT'S CASE HEARING
Pakistan's Supreme Court adjourned the hearing of a review petition challenging the death sentence given to Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh for his alleged involvement in four bomb blasts in 1990 till June 23rd.
- JUNE 17, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC UPHOLDS DEATH FOR RAPE OF MENTALLY ILL GIRL
the Indian Supreme Court upheld the death sentence awarded by the Bombay High Court's Nagpur bench to a 55-year-old man for kidnapping, raping and brutally strangling a 10-year-old mentally retarded girl.
- JUNE 11, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER OF WIFE, KID
a local court in Siddharthnagar, India, awarded the death sentence to Pateshwari Chaudhary for killing his wife and daughter.
- JUNE 9, 2009NepalDEATH PENALTY
QATAR: APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR THREE ASIAN MEN IN MURDER CASE
for the second time, a Doha appeals court in Qatar upheld the death penalty of two Indians and a Nepali in a murder case.
- JUNE 5, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR EUNUCH MURDER
a contract killer who shot a eunuch inside the Tis Hazari Court premises, six years ago, was awarded the death sentence by a sessions court in India.
- JUNE 5, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH PENALTY TO MAN FOR KILLING WIFE OVER DOWRY
a local court in Kushinagar, India, awarded the death penalty to a husband and life imprisonment to a father in law for murdering a woman for her dowry in the Kotwali area.
- JUNE 3, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH TO 8 SINCE JAN
as many as eight people were awarded capital punishment by different courts in Bihar...
- JUNE 2, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC CHIDES NHRC FOR EXCEEDING ITS POWERS IN DEATH SENTENCE CASE
the Indian Supreme Court set aside an order of the Assam Governor who, on the direction of the NHRC, commuted the death sentence of a man who massacred four members of family.
- JUNE 1, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: THOSE WHO BURN BRIDES NEED TO BE HANGED - SC
the Indian Supreme Court said people convicted of burning their wives for bringing
- MAY 28, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE OF MURDER ACCUSED
the Allahabad High Court in India confirmed the death sentence given to Sandeep of New Delhi for a murder that took place on November 17, 2004. Sandeep’s pregnant lover Jyoti, refused to abort the child and threatened to tell her family, so he and Shashi
- MAY 26, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: FOUR GET DEATH FOR NANDOS KILLINGS
in India, Sindhudurg District Principal and Sessions judge JN Shanbaug sentenced four Mumbai youths to death for their involvement in the infamous 2003 Nandos killings.
- MAY 25, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC REFUSES TO SEE MERIT IN DEATH TERM
the Indian Supreme Court reduced the death sentence of a murder convict to life imprisonment.
- MAY 21, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER OF FRIEND
Rabin Malick, 19, was sentenced to death by Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of the Barrackpore First Track Third Court in India, for the murder of his friend Abhishek
- MAY 18, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 3 GET DEATH FOR KILLING FRIEND
a fast-track court in Bhagalpur, India, awarded capital punishment to Gulab, Asmat and Pipiya for murdering their friend, Mohd Illias, out of jealousy as he planned to marry a girl they fancied.
- MAY 14, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC REMITS DEATH PENALTY TO LIFE FOR RANSOM MURDER
the Indian Supreme Court reduced the death sentence on a man who kidnapped and murdered a railway clerk for a ransom of Rs 10 lakh in 2001 to life imprisonment.
- MAY 14, 2009MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: HOUSEWIFE SENT TO THE GALLOWS FOR HUSBAND'S DEATH
a housewife and her cousin were sentenced to death by the Malaysian High Court after they were found guilty of murdering her husband in 2004.
- MAY 13, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL - SC
the Indian Supreme Court termed the capital punishment law "uncertain" and "falling
- MAY 11, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC DIVIDED ON SURAT RAPE AND MURDER CASE VERDICT
a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court pronounced a divided judgement in the 1999 rape and murder case of a 10-year-old girl in Surat, India.
- MAY 9, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC COMMUTES LIFE SENTENCE
a man sentenced to death for killing his wife and three children had his sentence commuted by the Delhi High Court in India
- MAY 6, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR DOUBLE MURDER
a 27-year-old man was sentenced to death in India by additional sessions judge AM Tamboli for robbing and murdering his senior citizen employers
- MAY 5, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: CENTRE SENDS FINAL OPINION TO PRESIDENT ON 27 MERCY PETITIONS
the Indian government sent its final opinion to the President on 27 of the 29 mercy petitions of death row convicts.
- MAY 2, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC HANDS DOWN DEATH SENTENCE TO SIX FOR MURDERING FAMILY
Justices Arijit Pasayat and Mukundakam Sharma of the Indian Supreme Court sentenced six convicts to death for the murder of five family members on June 5, 2003.
- MAY 1, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF GIRL, 4
in Madanapalle, India, Second Additional District magistrate Ganesh Babu sentenced Golla Appaiah, 34, to death for raping and murdering a minor girl on August 29, 2007