India 2018
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News on India in 2018
JULY 26, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: YOUTH GETS DEATH SENTENCE AFTER QUICK TRIAL IN MINOR’S RAPE AND MURDER CASE
A 25-year-old youth was awarded a death sentence in Madhya Pradesh for raping and killing a six-year-old girl
JULY 24, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HC SETS ASIDE DEATH SENTENCE, ACQUITS CONVICT OF ALL CHARGES
The Madras High Court set aside the conviction as well as death sentence imposed by a trial court on 24-year-old P. Manikandan
- JULY 21, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTY
RAJASTHAN: 19-YEAR-OLD GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING INFANT IN ALWAR
A special court in Alwar sentenced a 19-year-old to death for raping a seven-month-old child in Rajasthan’s Laxmangarh area.
JULY 17, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: PUNJAB & HARYANA HC CONFIRMS DEATH PENALTY FOR HARYANA WOMEN & HER LOVER
The Punjab and Haryana High Court confirmed the death sentence awarded to a Haryana woman and her boyfriend for poisoning and strangulating seven members of her family, including four children, in September 2009.
- JULY 9, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES OVER 2012 DELHI GANG RAPE
India's Supreme Court upheld death sentences for three men over the infamous gang-rape and murder of a woman in New Delhi in 2012 that sparked national protests and soul-searching.
- JULY 7, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTY
MADHYA PRADESH COURT PRONOUNCES DEATH PENALTY TO MAN WHO RAPED 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A man who was accused of raping a nine-year-old girl in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh, was convicted for the heinous crime and awarded capital punishment by a Bhopal court.
- JULY 2, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: PUNJAB WANTS DEATH PENALTY FOR SMUGGLERS
The Punjab cabinet decided to recommend to the Centre death penalty for drug smugglers.
JUNE 19, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN IN MADHYA PRADESH SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A court in Sagar Madhya Pradesh sentenced a 21-year-old man to death for raping and killing a nine-year-old girl last year.
MAY 30, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: PRESIDENT KOVIND REJECTS FIRST MERCY PLEA PLACED BEFORE HIM
President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the first ever mercy plea placed before him
- APRIL 27, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTY
UTTARAKHAND (INDIA): SOLITARY CONFINEMENT UNCONSTITUTIONAL
The Uttarakhand High Court declared the practice of solitary confinement unconstitutional.
- APRIL 27, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: FIVE GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR POISONING ILLICIT LIQUOR
A court in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvannamalai sentenced to death five persons who poisoned illicit liquor that left 13 people dead in 2000.
- APRIL 22, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: PRESIDENT SIGNS ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE DEATH PENALTY TO RAPISTS OF GIRLS BELOW 12 YEARS
President Ram Nath Kovind promulgated an ordinance that provides for stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years.
- APRIL 21, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA APPROVES DEATH PENALTY FOR CHILD RAPISTS
India’s cabinet approved the death penalty for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years amid outrage in the country after a string of horrific cases of sexual violence.
APRIL 13, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: ODISHA COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO NINE MEN IN GUNUPUR TRIPLE MURDER CASE
A Gunupur court in Odisha awarded capital punishment to nine men convicted of murdering three persons of a family in Gunupur in 2016.
APRIL 10, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 6-YR-OLD BOY
A court in Pilibhit (UP) sentenced a 35-year-old man to be hanged to death for killing a six-year-old boy in Amariya township last year.
MARCH 9, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: RAJASTHAN PASSES BILL FOR DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE OF GIRLS AGED 12 & BELOW
Rajasthan approved a bill providing for the death penalty to those convicted of raping girls under 12 years of age.
FEBRUARY 28, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN IN MP GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING, KILLING MINOR
A court in Shahdol (Madhya Pradesh) awarded death sentence to a 22-year-old man for raping and killing a four-year-old girl last May.
- FEBRUARY 19, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 7-YEAR-OLD HASINI'S RAPIST AND KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH
The young engineer accused of raping and murdering 7-year-old Hasini in Chennai last February was sentenced to death by a Chengalpet Court, Tamil Nadu.
- JANUARY 15, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERING MINOR GIRL
The Ernakulam district court sentenced a man to death for murdering a four-year-old girl at Chottanikkara in 2013.
- JANUARY 1, 2018IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is provided for by the Penal Code and by Art. 21 of the Constitution
The death penalty is provided for by the Penal Code and by Art. 21 of the Constitution