Social activist and actress Nandita Das believes that death sentence cannot act as a deterrence against a crime like rape. ...
11:24 AM, Jan 09, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday met Director Generals of Police and Home Secretaries from all the states over providing more security to women. Several aspects of crimes against women were discussed at the meeting in the national capital. ...
06:10 PM, Jan 04, 2013
A suspended Pittsburgh-area priest will serve more than eight years in prison for collecting thousands of images of child pornography on his computer, books and compact discs. The sentence the Rev Bartley Sorensen received on Wednesday was more than the five-year mandatory minimum he sought but less than the 10-year maximum he faced. ...
09:20 AM, Jan 03, 2013
Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on December 26 said he was in favour of death sentence for rapists and enacting a law in this regard. "I am in favour of death sentence for rapists and enacting a law in this regard," he told reporters on the sidelines of the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of Karnataka Journalists' Cooperative Society Limited (KJCS). ...
03:34 PM, Dec 30, 2012
A Sessions court in Bareilly on Monday sent a man to gallows for raping and killing a minor Dalit girl three years ago. The seven-year-old girl was raped and killed by Ashok in Bhuta area of the district in May 2009, prosecution said. ...
12:41 AM, Dec 25, 2012
New York: It's a fall from grace for a man who had built himself a reputation as a humanitarian. Fallen Wall Street tycoon Rajat Gupta was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday and a five million dollar fine was imposed for securities fraud and insider trading, the judge, refusing to be lenient despite appeals from influential people like Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Kofi Annan. In the end,...
06:38 PM, Oct 25, 2012
Thane: A total of 29 Indians have been sentenced to death for various criminal offences during the last five years in various countries, the External Affairs Ministry has said in response to an RTI query. In reply to a query under the Right to Information Act by activist Om Prakash Sharma, the MEA report has stated that 21 Indians had been awarded death sentence in the United Arab Emirates, six...
05:12 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Mumbai: The 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks convict Ajmal Kasab has sent his mercy petition to President Pranab Mukherjee. Kasab's mercy plea has been filed through the Arthur road jailor to the President's office. Kasab has been sentenced to death in the 26/11 case. If executed, Kasab will be the 52nd person to be hanged in India since independence. Kasab has ahead of him people like Mohammed Afzal Guru, the terrorist...
01:06 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai terror attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, lodged in a high security jail in Mumbai, has been given certified copy of the last month's Supreme Court verdict confirming death sentence on him, while he remained silent on filing a mercy petition. "Kasab was given certified copy of his death sentence confirmation verdict three days ago on which he had signed. One copy was given to him and the...
03:59 AM, Sep 12, 2012
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
New Delhi: The Uttarakhand High Court on Monday upheld the life sentence awarded to ex-Samajwadi Party MP Amarmani Tripathi in the Madhumita Shukla murder case. The court also upheld the punishment against all other accused in the case, including Amarmani's wife, Madhumani. Amarmani and his wife were found guilty of the murder of the poetess nearly a decade ago. Two other accused in the case, Amarmanis nephew Rohit Chaturvedi and...
10:51 AM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: Spurned by friends and relatives after his release following 15 years of incarceration for a murder, a man thought "the best place for him was jail" and committed another murder to earn another life term. The ironical realisation dawned upon 60-year-old Satish Kumar of West Delhi within six months after he walked out of Tihar Jail in March 2009 after serving a life term there following his conviction...
01:40 AM, Jun 15, 2012
