India 2022
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News on India in 2022
JANUARY 27, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BIHAR POSCO COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR RAPE OF SIX-YEAR-OLD
A special court under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act on 26 January 2022 sentenced a 48-year-old man to death for the rape of a six-year-old girl in Bihar’s Araria.
JANUARY 23, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TWO SISTERS ON DEATH ROW SPARED THE NOOSE BY BOMBAY HC
Observing that state machinery showed “laxity and indifference” in deciding their mercy plea, the Bombay High Court, in Maharashtra state,n on 18 January 2022 commuted the death sentences awarded to sisters Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit to life imprisonme