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
New Delhi: Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman spent his first night in jail on Friday. The Supreme Court convicted Bangaru for taking a Rs one lakh bribe to push a defence deal in a sting operation 11 years ago. The court in its 155-page judgement on Thursday said Laxman received money to "influence the public servants". Bangaru's sentencing will be announced later on Saturday. "The accused Bangaru Laxman on January...
06:13 AM, Apr 28, 2012
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court has ruled that life sentence can be a ground to grant divorce. Rejecting a Miscellaneous First Appeal by a husband serving life in a murder case, a division bench, headed by Justice KL Manjunath in its recent order said when the appellant is convicted for life, even the grounds of desertion have to be taken into account legally because the man cannot live with the...
03:56 AM, Apr 10, 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
Berlin: Former Force India Formula One driver Adrian Sutil has lodged an appeal against last week's 18-month suspended sentence for a nightclub brawl, his agent said on Wednesday. Sutil, 29, received the sentence and a 200,000-Euro fine for causing grievous bodily harm in a Shanghai nightclub brawl last year where Eric Lux, chief executive of Renault F1 team owners Genii Capital, was injured. "We have taken this step because we...
10:12 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Munich: Former Force India driver Adrian Sutil was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm to a Formula One team owner in a night club confrontation in China and given an 18-month suspended sentence on Tuesday. The Munich district court passed the verdict and the sentence after a two-day trial. The prosecutors had asked for a 21-month suspended sentence. Sutil was also fined $262,200, to be paid to charities. "The defendant...
06:37 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Chennai: The Madras High Court adjourned till March 27 the hearing on the petitions by the three men convicted for assassinating former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to commute their death sentences, while the Tamil Nadu government filed an additional affidavit in support of their pleas. The court had on August 30 last year stayed the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. This trio...
11:06 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Tehran: A former US Marine interpreter arrested while on a trip to visit his Iranian grandmothers has been sentenced to death as a CIA spy, state radio reported on Monday, in a case likely to become a new flashpoint in the escalating tensions between Tehran's defiance over its nuclear program and Washington's efforts to impose more crippling sanctions. It was the first time an American citizen has been sentenced to...
08:57 AM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's plea to convert his sentence into a life term. The Khalistani militant who had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people, had filed a mercy petition before the President in January. President Pratibha Patil had rejected the mercy petition in May 2011. Bhullar's counsel had...
08:46 AM, Nov 09, 2011
Former president APJ Abdul Kalam said that the death penalty should be abolished. ...
03:52 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Sriperumbudur: Twenty years ago the suicide blast that killed the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi also claimed 16 other lives. CNN-IBN met up with the families of the victims to get their views 20 years on. With continuing politics over the death sentence of the three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination, the case refuses to die down. But back in Sriperumbudur where it all happened, the families that lost...
09:13 AM, Sep 05, 2011
