Baghdad: A series of bombs ripped through mainly Shi'ite Baghdad districts on Sunday after Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was sentenced to death, ending one of the bloodiest days of the year with more than 100 killed across the country. The violence and the sentence for Hashemi, a senior Sunni politician, threatened to stoke sectarian tensions in Iraq where a Shi'ite-led government is battling political instability and a Sunni...
03:37 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: After the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab, the big question remains whether his execution will be delayed just like that of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. Afzal Guru's death sentence was upheld by the apex court for carrying out the Parliament attack in 2001, but he continues to live as his mercy plea lies pending with the President. Guru applied for mercy...
08:19 AM, Aug 30, 2012
Justice was delivered in the 26/11 terror attack case with the Supreme Court on Wednesday upholding the death sentence for Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only surviving Pakistani terrorist who attacked Mumbai in 2008. ...
12:01 AM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: Almost four year after Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab along with his nine associates, all of whom belonged to ISI-supported terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), wreaked havoc in Mumbai, the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty awarded to him by a special Mumbai court and confirmed by the Bombay High Court. While dismissing Kasab's petition, which was moved through senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, the two-judge bench of Justice Aftab...
05:46 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Mumbai: With the Supreme Court upholding death sentence for 26/11 attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, he became the 309th prisoner in India awaiting execution. The long list of convicts on death row means that Kasab may not be hanged soon. If executed, Kasab will be the 52nd person to be hanged in India since independence. At least 256 condemned convicts are currently awaiting Supreme Court's and high courts' endorsement to...
05:17 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde refuses to react to the delay caused in the mercy plea of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru but says the same won't be witnessed in the case of Ajmal Kasab if he pleads mercy too. ...
04:44 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: Welcoming the Supreme Court's verdict upholding the death sentence awarded to 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab, the father of NSG commando Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who died fighting the terrorists involved in the gruesome attack, said that he was satisfied with the judgement. "I welcome the judgement. I request the President to expedite the punishment and dispose off his mercy petition." Unnikrishnan was killed fighting terrorists in Mumbai's Taj Mahal...
11:10 AM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: Upholding the death sentence awarded to 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist involved in the gruesome attack on India's financial capital Mumbai, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it was left with no other option. "Kasab waged war against India. It is the primary and the foremost offence committed by Kasab," the SC ruling said. The apex court dismissed Kasab's plea that he was not...
11:03 AM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: All eyes will be on the Supreme Court on Wednesday, which will pronounce its judgement on 26/11 Mumbai attacks convict Ajmal Kasab's plea against his death penalty. The apex court will decide whether to uphold the Bombay High Court's order. Kasab, in his defence, claims he wasn't given a free and fair trial and should be granted mercy because of his young age. Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam,...
07:54 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Khartoum: A Sudanese woman, believed to be around 20, has been sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, and is being held near Khartoum, shackled in prison with her baby son, rights groups and lawyers said on Thursday. Campaigners condemned the ruling, saying it violated international standards and raised concerns that Sudan might start applying sharia, or Islamic law, more strictly following the secession of mostly non-Muslim South Sudan...
09:59 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Jaipur: Sister of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian on death row in Pakistan following his conviction for alleged involvement in bomb attacks, on Friday said she will appeal to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari during his Rajasthan visit to release his brother on humanitarian ground. Dalbir Kaur said she will try to meet Zardari during his private visit to Ajmer dargah on April 8. "Mercy petition of my brother is pending...
12:09 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Bangalore: Woman serial killer Mallika alias Cyanide Mallika, 45, was awarded death sentence by the First Additional Rural Court in Bangalore on Friday in connection with a murder. Mallika has been given death sentence for the second time. Mallika, who was arrested by Kalasipalya police at Kaggalipura on December 18, 2007, was charged of killing Nagaveni, 35, of Allalasandra in Yelahanka. Mallika used to loiter around temples and female devotees...
03:43 PM, Mar 31, 2012
The Centre stays execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana after the Akali government appealed for clemency. ...
11:15 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Centre stays hanging of Beant Singh's co-assassin, Balwant Singh Rajoana, until the Supreme Court decides on his petition. ...
09:47 PM, Mar 28, 2012
The Centre on Wednesday stayed hanging of Beant Singh's co-assassin Balwant singh Rajoana. ...
08:45 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
Pune: The two convicts in the Pune BPO employee rape-cum-murder case, Purshottam Borate and Pradip Kokate, have been sentenced to death. The court called it a rarest of the rare cases, saying it was 'premeditated' and 'heinous'. The two were pronounced guilty on Saturday by a Pune court. Twenty two-year-old Jyotikumari Chaudhary was raped and killed in November 2007. Her body was found at Wadgaon, off the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, on...
01:43 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil seems to be the most merciful of all presidents during the last three decades. She has commuted death sentences of 23 petitioners to life imprisonment, which is over 90 per cent of the total pardons granted since 1981. On February 9, she accepted the clemency petition of Sushil Murmu, pending since 2004, who was convicted for giving 'bali' (sacrifice) of a nine-year-old-boy in Jharkhand for...
09:32 AM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Maharashtra government on Wednesday opposed 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks accused Ajmal Kasab's plea for leniency in the Supreme Court. Placing arguments in the court, the Maharashtra government said, "Kasab's rights have not been violated." The Maharashtra government also said that death was a permissible means of punishment. It also claimed that his latest request was a conspiracy. "Kasab has been dealt with as fairly as possible. He...
12:52 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court is likely to pronounce on Friday its verdict on confirmation of death sentence to three people, including a woman, convicted in the 2003 Mumbai twin bomb blasts case. A division bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and P D Kode had on November 12, 2011 reserved its judgement in the case. Ashrat Ansari (32), Hanif Sayed Anees (46) and his wife Fehmida Sayed (43) were...
02:52 PM, Feb 10, 2012
