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
New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday accused Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal of misusing his Cabinet position to give a penalty waiver to Reliance Communications and maintained that by terming the PIL on the issue a move to defame him he is insulting the courts. "This whole government has become a shield to the looters of India who are enjoying all the perks in the Cabinet. Sibal, who is an expert...
08:39 PM, Jul 09, 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
New Delhi: Holding honour killings as a slur on the nation and a barbaric, feudal practice that ought to be stamped out, the Supreme Court on Monday directed courts to view such cases as "rarest of rare" category for awarding death penalty to the convicts. "In our opinion honour killings, for whatever reason, come within the category of rarest of rare cases deserving death punishment. It is time to stamp...
05:10 PM, May 09, 2011
Dubai: A Sharjah court has waived the death sentence awarded to eight Indian youths for the murder of a Pakistani national after a Dubai-based Indian hotelier paid blood money to the family of the victim on their behalf. The murder took place on July 11, 2009 following which 10 men, eight Indians - all from Pubjab - and two Pakistanis, were arrested. The death penalty of two Pakistanis have also...
10:00 AM, Mar 28, 2011
Mumbai: Mumbai: Police men and people who had fought the 26/11 terror attack on mumbai in 2008 as well as the victims of the tragedy are happy at the death sentence of Ajmal Kasab upheld by the Supreme Court on Monday. Railway Assistant Sub-Inspector Jillu Yadav: "I am extremely happy," said the railway police official, who had fired at Ajmal Kasab during the 26/11 attacks at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus...
04:39 PM, Feb 21, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court is expected to decide on Monday whether to uphold the death sentence awarded to Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab for his involvement in the 26/11 case. A division bench in the court room number 49 of the High Court, which has been conducting the 26/11 proceedings, is all set to give out its verdict after over three months of hearings on daily basis. It will...
07:30 AM, Feb 21, 2011
London: The Prince of Saudi Arabia, Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir al Saud, has been accused of murdering his aide in London and could face death penalty over allegations of homosexuality in his own country. The 34-year-old who is the grandson of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah allegedly killed his aide in February after sexually abusing him for weeks. He has admitted to manslaughter but denies being gay. The prince is...
04:49 PM, Oct 16, 2010
Mumbai: In a fresh development in the 26/11 terror attack case, Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab on Tuesday filed an appeal in Bombay High Court challenging death penalty awarded to him for killing 166 persons on November 26, 2008. "We have filed an appeal today," his lawyer Amin Solkar said. Kasab has challenged death penalty saying it was a harsh punishment imposed on him and pleaded that there were lapses in...
07:22 AM, Sep 29, 2010
New Delhi: In a setback for extradited gangster Abu Salem, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the trial court to proceed against him expeditiously. Salem, who is currently lodged in Arthur jail in Mumbai, has been convicted in the 1993 Mumbai blasts. The apex court said the underworld don can be tried for offences inviting death penalty even though the Portugal government had laid a pre-condition that he will not...
07:02 PM, Sep 10, 2010
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It was the first time in 14 years that an American inmate was executed by firing squad. ...
09:06 AM, Jun 19, 2010
The GoM was headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram. ...
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