India 2023
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News on India in 2023
- DECEMBER 30, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: RAJASTHAN POSCO COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO RAPE, DOUBLE MURDER ACCUSED YOUTH
A Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court in Rajasthan’s Pali district awarded the death penalty to a 22-year-old accused in a case involving rape and double murder, Hindustan Times reported on December 13, 2023.
- DECEMBER 12, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
MOTHER OF NURSE FACING EXECUTION IN YEMEN TOLD TO EXPLAIN ‘BLOOD MONEY’
The Delhi High Court on December 11, 2023 directed Premakumari, the mother of Nimisha Priya, a Kerala nurse facing a death sentence in Yemen for her involvement in the murder of a local citizen, to furnish documents illustrating the legal option of blood
NOVEMBER 21, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: KERALA CHILD RAPE-MURDER CONVICT SENTENCED TO DEATH
One hundred and ten days after a minor girl was brutally raped and killed in Kerala's Aluva, a special court in Kochi on November 14, 2023 sentenced a migrant worker to death
- NOVEMBER 15, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY AWARDED TO A MURDER ACCUSED
The Supreme Court of India, in a judgment delivered on November 10, 2023, commuted death sentence awarded to a murder accused.
NOVEMBER 9, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 65-YR-OLD GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPE, MURDER OF MINOR
The Special POCSO Court on November 7, 2023 awarded death sentence to a 65-year-old man accused of rape and murder in Uttar Pradesh.
- OCTOBER 23, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: BRITISH MOTHER SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER MURDERING HER SIKH HUSBAND
A British mother has been sentenced to death in India after she brutally murdered her husband in front of their nine-year-old son with the help of her lover, Daily Mail reported on October 17, 2023.
OCTOBER 19, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 3 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING THREE CHILDREN IN UP
A court in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh on October 18, 2023 sentenced three persons to death for killing three children, aged between seven and nine, more than four years ago.
OCTOBER 18, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: DELHI HC COMMUTES ARIZ KHAN'S DEATH PENALTY TO A LIFE SENTENCE IN BATLA HOUSE ENCOUNTER CASE
The Delhi high court on October 12, 2023 commuted Ariz Khan's death penalty to a life sentence, a decision stemming from his conviction in the high-profile 2008 Batla House encounter.
- OCTOBER 12, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: KOLKATA HC SETS ASIDE DEATH SENTENCES IN 2013 KAMDUNI GANG RAPE AND MURDER
A Kolkata high court division bench on October 6, 2023 set aside the death sentences earlier ordered by a sessions court to three of the six convicts in the 2013 gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old college student at Kamduni village in North 24 Parganas
OCTOBER 11, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR RAPING MINOR DAUGHTER FOR 4 YEARS
The Special Court of the Additional Sessions Judge (Fast Track), Prashant Rana, awarded on October 7, 2023 death penalty in Haryana State to a 42-year-old man for raping his minor daughter for four years and impregnating her.
- OCTOBER 4, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPING, KILLING MINOR GIRL IN 2019
A special POCSO court in Tripura on October 3, 2023 convicted two persons and sentenced them to death for raping and murdering a minor girl four years ago.
- SEPTEMBER 27, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERING TWO WOMEN
A Chittoor court, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, on August 22, 2023 awarded death penalty to a middle-aged man identified as Syed Moulali on charges of killing his live-in partner and her 65-year-old mother.
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF CONVICT IN RAPE & MURDER CASE OF 4.5 YEARS OLD GIRL
The Rajasthan High Court, Jaipur Bench, has set aside the death sentence of a man who was convicted of rape and murder of four-year-old girl and has commuted it to the life imprisonment.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: ODISHA MAN AWARDED DEATH PENALTY, SON GETS LIFE TERM FOR TRIPLE-MURDER
A man was sentenced to death by a court in Odisha’s Sambalpur district on August 9, 2023 in a triple murder case.
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: NIA COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO TWO ISIS-LINKED MEN WHO MURDERED RETIRED SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IN UP
An NIA Special Court in Lucknow on September 14, 2023 awarded death penalty to Atif Muzaffar and Mohammed Faisal Khan who were held guilty of murdering retired school principal Ram Babu Shukla in Kanpur with the motive of advancing their ISIS agenda by in
AUGUST 7, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF TWO-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A court in Gujarat’s Surat city on August 2, 2023 awarded death sentence to a 23-year-old man for the rape and murder of a two-year-old girl in February.
JUNE 29, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, KILLING 8-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN UP’S AURAIYA
A local court on June 28, 2023 awarded the death sentence to a man for raping and killing an eight-year-old girl in Auraiya district of Uttar Pradesh in March this year.
- JUNE 27, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DELHI HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF MAN CONVICTED FOR KIDNAPPING, MURDER OF 12-YEAR-OLD NEIGHBOUR
The Delhi High Court on June 26, 2023 commuted the death sentence awarded earlier to a man convicted of kidnapping and murdering a 12-year-old child in the year 2009.
JUNE 13, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: KARNATAKA HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE TO MAN WHO KILLED FIVE INCLUDING THREE OF HIS MINOR CHILDREN
The man who killed five people including three minor children has been given a death sentence by a division bench of the Dharwad Bench of the High Court of Karnataka, Outlook India reported on June 10, 2023.
JUNE 7, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 2 BUNDI MEN ON DEATH ROW FOR RAPE, MURDER ACQUITTED BY HC
Two men who were found guilty and sentenced to death by a POCSO court last year for the gang-rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in Bundi district in 2021 were acquitted on June 2, 2023 by Rajasthan High Court.
JUNE 1, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MATHURA COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF MINOR BOY IN 15-DAY TRIAL
A special court in Mathura, dealing with cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) on May 29, 2023 sentenced a man to death for raping and killing a 9-year-old boy.
- MAY 14, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: THREE MEN GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER OF JABALPUR COUPLE
A court in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur has sentenced three men to death for killing a couple living next door in the city in 2021, terming the offence as "rarest of the rare".
- MAY 3, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 82-YEAR-OLD GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR 2008 'MASS MURDERS' IN RAJASTHAN'S DHOLPUR
An SC/ST court in Dholpur district on April 25, 2023 sentenced an 82- year-old man in a 15-year-old case of shooting four MGNREGS workers to death.
MAY 2, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF MAN WHO KILLED SISTER AND HER LOVER
India’s Supreme Court on April 28, 2023 commuted the death sentence of a man to life sentence, namely Digambar who murdered his sister along with her lover.
- APRIL 17, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAHARASHTRA MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 5 FAMILY MEMBERS
A court in Maharashtra's Nagpur on April 15, 2023 sentenced a man to death for killing five members of his family over a property dispute.
APRIL 12, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BIHAR GANGSTER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR COURT BLAST
A court in Bihar's Arrah on April 5, 2023 sentenced dreaded gangster Lambu Sharma to death for the 2019 bomb explosion in the district court that killed two people, including the woman tasked with planting it.
- MARCH 29, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 4 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR 2008 JAIPUR SERIAL BLASTS ACQUITTED BY HIGH COURT
The Rajasthan high court on 29 March 2023 acquitted four men sentenced to death by a trial court for nine blasts that went off in Jaipur in May 2008, killing 71 people and injuring over 170.
- MARCH 28, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SUPREME COURT RELEASES DEATH ROW PRISONER AFTER 28 YEARS ON FINDING HIM TO BE A JUVENILE AT THE TIME OF OFFENCE
The Supreme Court on 27 March 2023 released a death row convict upon finding that even though he was a juvenile at the time of the commission of the offence he was tried as an adult and was sentenced to death.
- MARCH 22, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SUPREME COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF SUNDARRAJAN WHO MURDERED 7-YEAR-OLD BOY
The Supreme Court on March 21, 2023 commuted the death sentence of a man, who had kidnapped and killed a seven-year-old boy in Tamil Nadu in 2009, to 20-year imprisonment, saying there was “possibility of reformation” even though he has committed a ghastl
MARCH 14, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SEVEN RAPE CONVICTS GOT DEATH PENALTIES WITHIN 100 DAYS IN SURAT, SAYS GUJARAT HOME MINISTER
Within 100 days, seven persons have been given death penalty in rape cases in Surat, Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi told the state legislature on 11 March 2023.