Kalpana Pawar, wife of slain police constable Ambadas Pawar, said that 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab should be hanged without further delay. ...
02:25 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Eknath Ombale, the brother of Tukaram Ombale who died fighting terrorists during the 26/11 terror attacks, said that if Afzal Guru had been hanged 10 years ago, maybe 26/11 and 13/7 wouldn't have happened. ...
02:04 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: The Supreme Court has upheld death penalty for 26/11 Mumbai attacks convict Ajmal Kasab. Mohammed Ajmal Kasab is the lone Pakistani terrorist captured alive in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. He was sentenced to death for his role in the attacks that left 166 people dead by a special court in Mumbai on May 6, 2010. While dismissing Kasab's petition that he was not given a fair trial in...
10:44 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Washington: The US soldier, who killed 16 civilians in Afghanistan could face a death penalty if convicted, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said, while asserting that the tragic incident was but an "isolated" one. The suspect, who has been arrested, went on a killing spree over the weekend, shooting down civilians, most of them women and children, in an act that has taken anti-America sentiment to a new high in...
10:55 AM, Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to hear a petition challenging the death penalty given to militant Devender Pal Singh Bhullar. His mercy plea was rejected last year after he was given death penalty in a 1993 car bombing case. The Khalistani militant had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people. He had filed a mercy petition before President Pratibha...
07:41 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Cairo: Egyptian prosecutors have demanded the death sentence for former President Hosni Mubarak and other defendants including the former interior minister for their role in the killing of protesters in the uprising that swept him from power. Many Egyptians hope the trial will heal some of the scars of Mubarak's autocratic rule and help the country find stability after nearly a year of political turmoil under the military generals who...
09:45 AM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday will hear 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab's plea challenging his death sentence. Kasab has been convicted on the charges of criminal conspiracy, waging war against the nation and murder. Kasab, the sole convict in the case, has filed the petition through jail authorities in the apex court which has appointed senior advocate Raju Ramachandaran as amicus curie to assist it in deciding the appeal....
07:13 AM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the government to explain the reasons for delay in deciding on Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's mercy plea. The apex court said it wanted to know what happened between 2003 and 2011. A bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi asked the Centre to file an affidavit by October 10, explaining the delay in deciding Bhullar's mercy plea of 2003, rejected by the President...
01:39 PM, Sep 28, 2011
New Delhi: Top advocate Raju Ramachandran has been appointed to defend the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack accused Ajmal Kasab in the Supreme Court. Kasab has filed a petition in the apex court challenging the death penalty. Speaking to CNN-IBN, senior advocate Raju Ramachandran said," it's a call of duty." A trial court had sentenced Kasab to death on five counts in May 2010. The Bombay High Court had later upheld...
10:50 AM, Sep 21, 2011
New Delhi: JD(U)on Thursday took a dig at its NDA ally BJP for raising objections over Omar Abdullah's remarks on the issue of execution of Afzal Guru, asking why it had not raised eyebrows when the matter relating to Rajiv Gandhi's killers had come up. "What Omar Abdullah is saying is correct. What is wrong in saying that there would have been an uproar if resolution had been passed on...
01:28 PM, Sep 01, 2011
New Delhi: A day after the Tamil Nadu Assembly passed an unprecedented resolution asking the President to reconsider the mercy pleas of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's killers, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has stirred a controversy by comparing the clemency appeals of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and Rajiv Gandhi's killers. Referring to Afzal Guru, who comes from Kashmir, the J&K Chief Minister asked on Twitter, "If...
12:01 PM, Aug 31, 2011
On Talking Point Rajdeep Sardesai asks, 'should the process of deciding on death penalty be expedited in cases like Afzal Guru?' ...
10:51 PM, Aug 11, 2011
New Delhi: In a major development, the Government is understood to have recommended to President Pratibha Patil rejection of the clemency petition of Mohd Afzal Guru, convicted for the attack on Parliament in 2001. The move could pave the way for the likely hanging of Afzal, an issue that has already generated much controversy. Six years after Afzal appealed to the President of India to commute his death penalty, the...
06:08 PM, Aug 10, 2011
New Delhi: Police personnel involved in fake encounter killings should be awarded death sentence and hanged, the Supreme Court has said. A bench of justices Markandeya Katju and CK Prasad said that police personnel as custodians of law are expected to protect people and not eliminate them as contract killers. "Fake encounter killings by cops are nothing but cold-blooded brutal murder which should be treated as the rarest of rare...
05:40 PM, Aug 08, 2011
New Delhi: The 26/11 Mumbai terror attack accused Ajmal Kasab has moved the Supreme Court challenging his death penalty. Kasab moved Supreme Court against the The Bombay High Court order upholding the death sentence. A trial court had sentenced him to death on five counts in May 2010. The Bombay High Court later confirmed Kasab's death sentence in February this year. This even as Pakistan has also registered an FIR...
09:14 AM, Jul 29, 2011
On Talking Point, Veeraraghav and Suhasini Haidar discuss if Afzal Guru's death penalty has become a political debate. ...
10:22 PM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil on Friday turned down the mercy petitions of two convicts Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar and MN Dass. This is the first execution to be cleared by the President since 2004. Ten years after the Parliament was attacked, Afzal Guru's mercy plea against his death penalty is pending with the Home Ministry. This is a stark contrast to the case of Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar, whose...
09:44 PM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: Fake encounter killings by cops are nothing but "cold-blooded brutal murder" which should be treated as the "rarest of rare" offence and police personnel responsible for it should be awarded death sentence, the Supreme Court has ruled. Dismissing a bunch of bail applications by a group of police officials who allegedly acted as contract killers, a bench of justices Markandeya Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra said in a...
01:00 PM, May 14, 2011
