Islamabad: Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, convicted for alleged involvement in bomb attacks in 1990 in Pakistan, has sent a fresh clemency appeal to President Asif Ali Zardari, a media report said on Tuesday. This is the fifth mercy petition from Sarabjit, who was sentenced to death for alleged involvement in a string of bombings in Punjab in 1990 that killed 14 people. The 49-year-old Indian is currently being...
10:59 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has criticised the Punjab government on the Balwant Singh Rajoana clemency issue. The court called the stay on the hanging of Rajoana, a drama by the state government. Rajoana is one of the assassins of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh and was to be hanged on Saturday. However, the Centre stayed his hanging after Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal met President Pratibha Patil...
01:03 PM, Mar 29, 2012
The Congress and the BJP have been saying Afzal Guru must be hanged even as the J&K government has been seeking clemency. ...
10:58 PM, Mar 28, 2012
The government asked 15 paramilitary companies to be deployed ahead of Balwant Singh Rajoana's hanging on March 31. ...
02:52 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: A trial court in Chandigarh is expected to decide on the execution of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh's co-assassin on Tuesday. Balwant Singh Rajoana is scheduled to be hanged on March 31. Several Sikh groups including the ruling Akali Dal-backed SGPC have appealed for clemency for him. The Patiala Central Jail on Sunday had returned his death warrant saying it would be "illegal" to execute Rajoana at...
06:44 AM, Mar 27, 2012
new Delhi:There were protests outside Jammu and Kashmir Assembly ahead of the Afzal Guru clemency debate on Thursday. Independent MLA Engineer Rashid and his supporters were detained by the police for staging a protest outside the house. Rashid was released soon after. Earlier, the Afzal Guru clemency debate was stalled after there was an uproar in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly for the second day on Thursday. On Wednesday, Assembly proceedings...
11:34 AM, Sep 29, 2011
New Delhi: The Afzal Guru clemency debate was stalled after there was uproar in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly for the second day on Thursday. Earlier, Assembly proceedings in Jammu and Kashmir was adjourned for the day on Wednesday. There was a scheduled debate and a vote on the resolution seeking mercy for Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who is on death row. The House was adjourned twice - first when...
10:10 AM, Sep 29, 2011
Srinagar: The controversial resolution seeking clemency for Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru could not be debated in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Wednesday. The Assembly was adjourned for the day after repeated adjournments caused by clashes between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Opposition leader Mehbooba Mufti slammed state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah over the issue. "It is a bad day for democracy and Omar is taking...
09:09 PM, Sep 28, 2011
Congress MLA Sharief Niaz on Wednesday denied trying to stall the discussion on the Afzal Guru. ...
12:47 PM, Sep 28, 2011
New Delhi: On July 27, 2011 Union Ministry for Home Affairs sent Mohammed Afzal Guru's mercy petition to the President recommending that the clemency plea be rejected. It seemed to be all but the end of the road for the Parliament attack convict till Engineer Rashid, Independent member of J&K Assembly stepped in. Taking a cue from the Tamil Nadu Assembly's resolution in favour of Rajiv Gandhi assassins, Rashid moved...
07:31 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir unit of BJP on Monday said it would hold statewide protests against the proposed resolution seeking clemency for Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. "Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is saying that hanging of Guru would disturb situation in Kashmir Valley, we say if it is not done it would disturb situation in entire country," state BJP chief Shamsher Singh Manhas told reporters. The Jammu and Kashmir...
05:49 PM, Sep 26, 2011
Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru, 28 other clemency petitions pending. ...
02:08 AM, Oct 31, 2009
Sarabjit Singh is on death row for his alleged role in the Lahore bombings. ...
02:46 PM, Jul 30, 2009
Indian national has been found of serial bomb blasts in Pak cities. ...
03:41 PM, Oct 28, 2008
Sarabjit clemency plea to get a boost as Pak Law Min set to meet him. ...
09:37 AM, Oct 06, 2008
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