India 2010
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News on India in 2010
- APRIL 17, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED TO TWO PEOPLE
in Jamui, India, District and sessions judge Vijay Kumar Sinha sentenced Preman Yadav and Shailendra Yadav to death for killing three minors of Nepali Yadav with a sharp-edged weapon on March 19, 2006.
- APRIL 17, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE, MURDER
in Kaushambi, India, District and Sessions Judge C M Khan sentenced Bhairon Bansi to death for assaulting and killing a six year old neighbouring girl at Taimba village on March 10, 2008.
- APRIL 15, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE, MURDER OF MINOR
in Jharkhand, India, Dhanbad’s Additional District Judge Vijay Shanker Singh sentenced Amit Chakravarty to death for raping and killing his eight-year-old neighbour when she went to his house to give him food in 2005.
- APRIL 12, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: OVER 100 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN BIHAR IN LAST 4 YEARS
over 100 people have been sentenced to death in Bihar, India, in the last four years.
- APRIL 7, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
BIHAR (INDIA): 16 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN 1997 CARNAGE
Sixteen persons were sentenced to death in India by a Bihar court for their involvement in
- APRIL 7, 2010United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: APPEAL FILED AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO 17 INDIANS
an appeal was filed on behalf of 17 Indians recently sentenced to death by a Sharjah court in the United Arab Emirates for killing a Pakistani national and injuring three of his compatriots, India's Consul-General Sanjay Verma said.
- APRIL 1, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: GETS DEATH SENTENCE IN DSP MURDER CASE
Justice R P Asthana of the Fast Track Court in Saharsa...
- MARCH 30, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
HARYANA (INDIA): 5 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
in a landmark judgement in a Haryana (India) honour killing case, a court awarded capital
- MARCH 30, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING CHILD
at a court in Bihar, India, Additional District and Sessions Judge Umesh Chandra Mishra sentenced Raju Singh to death for abducting three-year-old Sundaram and then killing him at Amatha village in the district on May 10, 2009.
- MARCH 29, 2010United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: DEATH PENALTY FOR 17 INDIANS IN UAE
a court in the United Arab Emirates sentenced 17 Indian nationals to death for killing a Pakistani man after a
- MARCH 25, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MP HOUSE CLEARS TOUGH TERROR LAW
the Madhya Pradesh Assembly in India passed a stringent law that provides for capital punishment when terror attacks, disruptive activities and organised crimes result in death.
- MARCH 22, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: COURT REJECTS MURDER CONVICT’S CLEMENCY PLEA
Justices P V Hardas and S P Davare of the Bombay high court in India rejected the clemency plea of Nandurbar resident Sumanbai Mahire, 58.
MARCH 19, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: ANTI-HIJACKING LAW GETS TOUGHER, DEATH SENTENCE INCLUDED AS PUNISHMENT
The UPA government made the anti-hijacking law much tougher by including death sentence as a punishment.
- MARCH 18, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA TWO ON DEATH ROW ACQUITTED IN MURDER CASE
Kumaran and Senbagam were acquitted by Justices Chockalingam and Karnan of the Madras High Court in India.
- MARCH 16, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: A DEATH SENTENCE BASED ON LAB TESTS
in India, a Supreme Court Bench comprising Justices M K Sharma and H L Dattu upheld the death sentence of servant Ajay Kumar Pal for murdering his employer Dhirandra Kumar’s family in Ranchi on June 1, 2003.
- MARCH 14, 2010United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: 7 INDIANS LANGUISHING IN DUBAI JAIL
seven Indians are among 24 death row convicts currently languishing in jail in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- MARCH 12, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING GIRL
in Salem, India, the First Additional District Sessions court sentenced Palaniyammal...
- MARCH 3, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN TO DIE FOR MINOR'S RAPE, MURDER
in New Delhi, India, Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar sentenced Ranjeet, 28, of Bihar to death for raping and murdering a five-year-old girl on July 3, 2007, in Gopalpur, near Timarpur.
- MARCH 1, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN HONOUR KILLING INDIAN COUPLE FROM SAME CLAN
five people were sentenced to death for killing a couple from the same clan that married in 2007 in the northern Indian state of Haryana.
- FEBRUARY 26, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR LABOURER FOR RAPING, KILLING MINOR
in Hoshiarpur, India, Additional Session Judge Surinder Singh Sahni sentenced Mangal Singh, a migrant labourer from West Bengal, to death for raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl from Adda Saran village of the district on March 11, 2009.
- FEBRUARY 23, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH FOR RAPE-MURDER
the Khandwa District Court in India awarded the death penalty to Rahul Rajput, 22, for raping and murdering an 18 year old woman.
- FEBRUARY 23, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER
in India, Kuchinda Additional District Judge Saroj Kumar Pati sentenced Arjun Teli...
- FEBRUARY 23, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE
a Kerala High Court Division Bench, comprising Justices Basant and HariRani...
- FEBRUARY 16, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING INFANT
Judge K.C. Garg of the Indore Sessions Court in Madhya Pradesh...
- FEBRUARY 15, 2010NepalDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
in Chandigarh, India, the Punjab and Haryana High Court commuted the death penalty awarded to two Nepalese nationals in a minor's rape and murder case.
FEBRUARY 10, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SOCIO-ECONOMIC SITUATION FACTOR FOR COMMUTING DEATH PENALTY
long incarceration and socio-economic factors leading to crime are relevant and mitigating
- FEBRUARY 9, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: KERALA HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE TERM
in India, the Kerala High Court commuted the death sentence awarded to Nawaz to a life term.
- FEBRUARY 5, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: CALCUTTA HC UPHOLDS AFTAB ANSARI'S DEATH SENTENCE
in India, the Calcutta High Court upheld the death sentences of Aftab Ansari and Jamiluddin Nasir but commuted three other people’s death sentences over the January 2002 American Centre attack.
- JANUARY 31, 2010MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: INDIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MALAYSIA
Indian national Athiseshan Singaram, 48, a textile company driver...
- JANUARY 27, 2010IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SUPREME COURT OKAY WITH DEATH TO ABDUCTORS
the Indian Supreme Court asked judges to punish kidnappers hard, mentioning that the law allows awarding