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News on India in 2024
DECEMBER 31, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: FATHER-SON DUO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING RELATIVE IN 2014 LAND DISPUTE CASE
A Bareilly court on December 24, 2024 sentenced a father-son duo to death in connection with a decade-old murder case, also imposing a fine of Rs 1 lakh on each.
DECEMBER 11, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BOMBAY HC SETS ASIDE DEATH PENALTY OF KEY ACCUSED FOR MURDER OF PUNE FAMILY IN 1997, ORDERS HIS RELEASE
The Bombay High Court on December 9, 2024 set aside the death penalty granted to the key accused by a lower court for the murder of four members of a family, including two children, 27 years ago in Pune.
- DECEMBER 10, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE AWARDED TO YOUTH IN 61 DAYS FOR MINOR'S RAPE-MURDER IN JAYNAGAR
A POCSO court in Baruipur of West Bengal's South 24 Parganas on December 5, 2024 awarded death sentence to Mustaqin, convicted of rape and murder of a minor girl from Jaynagar.
DECEMBER 5, 2024Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: UTTAR PRADESH MAN GIVEN DEATH PENALTY ON DRUG CHARGES
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh to death on charges of drug trafficking, triggering panic and despair among his family members who have pleaded for clemency, PTI reported on December 4, 2024.
- DECEMBER 2, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING WIFE, TWO KIDS, MOTHER
The 5th Additional District and Sessions Court in Mysuru has sentenced a man to death for the murders of his pregnant wife, two children, and mother, the Indian Express reported on November 28, 2024.
NOVEMBER 30, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 7 MEN WHO KILLED 23-YR-OLD IN 2020, CHOPPED BODY INTO PIECES, GET DEATH PENALTY
Calling it a rarest of rare case, a Chinsurah fast track court on November 28, 2024 sentenced seven persons to death in a 2020 murder case.
- NOVEMBER 19, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF ACCUSED IN MINOR’S RAPE-MURDER
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on November 15, 2024 commuted the death sentence of a man accused in the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl into life imprisonment.
NOVEMBER 12, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: KARNATAKA COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO THREE MEN IN RAPE AND MURDER CASE OF AN 8-YEAR-OLD
A Mangaluru court on November 7, 2024 awarded death sentences to three men after finding them guilty of the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl.
NOVEMBER 5, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, KILLING MINOR GIRL
A court in Rajasthan’s Udaipur on November 4, 2024 sentenced a man to death for raping and killing a nine-year-old girl.
- OCTOBER 24, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: BOMBAY HC UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF MAN CONVICTED FOR MURDERING MOTHER, EATING HER ORGANS
The Bombay High Court on October 1st, 2024 upheld the death penalty awarded to a Kolhapur man for murdering his mother by disembowelling her body to eat her body parts in 2017.
OCTOBER 15, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: ALLAHABAD HC COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF FATHER, SON IN 19-YEAR-OLD DOUBLE MURDER CASE
The Allahabad high court on September 27, 2024 commuted the death sentence of a father-son duo, convicted in a 2005 double murder case, to life imprisonment.
OCTOBER 8, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF FIVE-YEAR-OLD CHILD
A local court in Sangareddy district of Telangana on September 12, 2024 awarded death sentence to a man for raping and murdering a five-year-old girl in October 2023.
OCTOBER 7, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
The high court in Kochi, in the Indian state of Kerala, has commuted the death sentence awarded to Rajith, the prime convict in the 2013 murder case of a four-year-old girl in Chottanikkara, to life imprisonment, Times of India reported on September 14, 2
- OCTOBER 3, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF MINOR GIRL IN SAMBALPUR
A special POCSO court in Sambalpur on October 1st, 2024 sentenced a man to death for raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl in Jamankira area of Sambalpur.
OCTOBER 1, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: ARUNACHAL SCHOOL HOSTEL WARDEN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING 21 STUDENTS
A special court in Arunachal Pradesh handed the death sentence on September 26, 2024 to a hostel warden convicted for sexual assault of 21 students at a government-run residential school from 2014 to 2022.
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 4 GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING 3 RELATIVES OVER PROPERTY DISPUTE
A fast-track court (FTC) in Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh) has sentenced a 32-year-old man from Etawah to death for his involvement in the murder of his three relatives, including a couple in their early 50s and their minor son, in a 12-year-old property disput
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: DEATH SENTENCES OF CONVICTS IN 2013 GANDHI MAIDAN BLASTS COMMUTED
The Patna high court on September 11, 2024 commuted the death penalty of four persons convicted for the 2013 blasts targeting Narendra Modi's poll rally in Patna to 30 years of imprisonment.
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: WEST BENGAL ASSEMBLY PASSES ANTI-RAPE BILL PRESCRIBING DEATH PENALTY FOR CONVICTS
The Indian state of West Bengal on September 3, 2024 passed a law, the Aprajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024, which introduces the death penalty for rape cases that result in the victim’s death or leave them in a vegeta
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: ODISHA HC COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY IN TRIPLE MURDER CASE
The Odisha High Court on Wednesday commuted death sentence of one Nabin Dehury to imprisonment for life till his natural death without remission or commutation.
AUGUST 6, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: ODISHA COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE FOR GIVING BIRTH TO SECOND GIRL CHILD
A court in Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar on August 1, 2024 sentenced a man to death for repeatedly stabbing his wife to death and attempting to murder his six-year-old daughter by slitting her throat two years ago.
JULY 24, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: KERALA HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF PATHANAMTHITTA MAN WHO KILLED NEPHEWS AGED 3 & 7
The Kerala High Court has commuted the death penalty imposed upon Thomas Chacko (aka Shibu) of Keekozhur, Ranni, to 30 years of rigorous imprisonment without remission for murdering his nephews aged 3 and 7 over a property dispute, Manorama Online reporte
JUNE 19, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: WOMAN AWARDED DEATH PENALTY FOR STABBING MOTHER-IN-LAW 90 TIMES
A local court in Madhya Pradesh has awarded the death sentence to a 24-year-old woman for attacking her mother-in-law with an iron pan and then striking her with a sickle ninety times, killing her instantly, in 2022.
JUNE 17, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MADRAS HC ACQUITS ALL ACCUSED IN DR SUBBIAH MURDER CASE
The Madras high court on June 14, 2024 set aside the conviction as well as death sentence imposed on seven people and life sentences imposed on two more in the 2013 murder case of neurosurgeon SD Subbiah near Billroth Hospital in Chennai.
- JUNE 12, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 2 BROTHERS GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING, BURNING MINOR GIRL IN RAJASTHAN
Two men convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in August last year - by burning her alive in a coal furnace - were sentenced to death on May 18, 2024 by a special court in Rajasthan's Bhilwara.
- JUNE 4, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: NAGPUR MAN GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPING, MURDERING GIRL, 5, IN 2019
A man was sentenced to death on June 3, 2024 by a Nagpur court for raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl in 2019.
MAY 29, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: UTTARAKHAND HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF MAN WHO RAPED HIS 5 YEAR OLD COUSIN SISTER MULTIPLE TIMES
The Uttarakhand High Court has commuted the death sentence of a man convicted of repeatedly raping his five-year-old orphaned cousin, Lawbeat reported on May 28, 2024.
- MAY 27, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: THREE, INCLUDING MOTHER, SON, SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KERALA FOR MURDERING 71-YEAR-OLD NEIGHBOUR
A Kerala court on May 22, 2024 sentenced three accused, including a mother and her son, to death for murdering their 71-year-old neighbour near Vizhinjam in Thiruvananthapuram in 2022.
- MAY 8, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: KARNATAKA COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO 2 IN HATE CRIME CASE
In a landmark ruling, the District Sessions Court in Vijayapura has delivered a verdict of justice in a harrowing case of honour killing, sentencing two perpetrators to death by hanging, while imposing life imprisonment and hefty fines on others involved,
- MAY 6, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: CBI COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE TO FOUR CONVICTS IN NUH GANGRAPES, DOUBLE MURDER CASE
A special CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) court in Haryana's Panchkula awarded the death sentence to four convicts in the 2016 Nuh gangrapes and double murder case on May 4, 2024, officials said.
- APRIL 29, 2024IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY TO LIFE
The Kerala High Court has modified the death sentence awarded to Narendra Kumar, a native of Uttar Pradesh and the sole accused in the Parampuzha triple murder case, to life imprisonment without remission for 20 years for the murder offence.