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
Tonight at 10, Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts whether Kashmiris are entitled to support Afzal Guru the way Tamil Nadu has supported Rajiv assassins?
01:19 PM, Aug 31, 2011
New Delhi: The Madras High Court will hear the review petition filed on behalf of the three convicts facing execution for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi even as politics over their death sentence gathers pace. In Tamil Nadu, pro-Tamil groups have stepped up efforts to stall the execution of Rajiv Gandhi's killers. Should Murugan alias Sriharan, Santhan and Perarivalan alias Arivu be hanged on September 9? The case of the...
08:09 PM, Aug 29, 2011
New Delhi: Pleading that a mentally imbalanced person should not be executed, the wife of terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar has urged the Supreme Court to quash his death penalty and commute it to life term. In a fresh writ petition filed by senior counsel K T S Tulsi, the convict's wife Navaneet Kaur submitted that carrying out the death penalty would amount to 'cruelty' and would be 'inhuman' and...
10:27 AM, Jun 26, 2011
Giridih: Four Naxals were on Thursday sentenced to death by a local court in Giridih for the 2007 Chilkari massacre in which 20 villagers were killed. Additional District and Sessions Judge (First) ID Mishra ordered that the four be hanged till death for perpetrating the dastardly crime on October 26, 2007. The four condemned Naxals are Chhatrapati Mandal, Manoj Rajwar, Jiten Marandi and Anil Ram. The court had on Wednesday...
12:21 PM, Jun 23, 2011
New Delhi: The German Ambassador to India Thomas Matussek has said that Germany will appeal to India not to execute Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Bhullar. He said the German court which extradited him to India, did so erroneously, and without the full facts of the case before it. "Our government will appeal to the Indian government not to execute him. The high representative of the EU Catherine Ashton has also...
06:16 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Ghaziabad: A prosecution witness appearing in a case related to the Nithari killings turned hostile on Saturday during cross examination. Neelam, a witness in Badi Payal, 21, related to the serial killings, recanted on her previous statement and refused to identify Sub-Inspector Simran Kaur, an accused in the case in along with Moninder Singh Pandher and Surender Kohli, CBI counsel JP Sharma said on Saturday. Sharma said special judge AK...
06:43 PM, Jun 04, 2011
Chandigarh: All India Anti-Terrorist Front Chairman MS Bitta on Monday said political parties were indulging in votebank politics over rejection of mercy plea of death row convict and Khalistan militant Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar even as SGPC decided to file a review petition against capital punishment for Bhullar. "It is unfortunate that parties are indulging in votebank politics over such a sensitive issue. It is time that people of this...
06:41 PM, May 30, 2011
New Delhi: The waiting list of death row mercy pleas has become shorter as President Pratibha Patil has rejected the mercy petitions of two murder convicts MN Das and Devender Bhullar. Khalistani terrorist Bhullar was convicted for attacking Congress leader MS Bitta in 1993, leading to several deaths in Delhi. It comes after the Supreme Court on Monday expressed surprise over the 8-year delay in the disposal of Bhullar's plea....
07:05 AM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi; Notorious Dutch national Will Heum was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday - the case is the first to be tried under the amended IT act. Paedophile was Heum has been sentenced on three counts to a total of 25 years in prison. He has been charged under three sections including kidnapping children, unnatural offences and uploading pornographic content on the web. Heum is a Dutch...
07:49 PM, May 26, 2011
Ghaziabad: Mother of the Nithari killings' victim Rimpa Haldar on Tuesday demanded early execution of Surender Koli, convicted for the murder of her daughter and said he did not deserve any mercy. Dolly said that she heaved a sigh of relief on hearing about the death warrant issued for Kohli, but the news of the mercy petition filed by him has saddened her. A special court has ordered that Koli...
05:03 PM, May 10, 2011
Ghaziabad: A special court has ordered that Surender Koli, sentenced to death in the sensational Nithari serial killings case, be hanged between May 24 and May 31 following which he has filed a mercy petition. The Ghaziabad jail authorities sent his mercy petition to the Uttar Pradesh Governor who will forward it to the President. CBI Judge Shyam Lal issued the death warrant for execution of Koli, 39, after the...
05:18 PM, May 09, 2011
Ghaziabad: CFSL chief scientist VK Mahapatra on Thursday told a special CBI court that he neither found any blood stains nor detected semen during forensic examination of the samples related to three cases in the infamous Nithari killings. The chief scientist of the Delhi-based Central Forensic Science Laboratory appeared as a witness in three cases, including those of Choti Payal, Pushpa kidnappings and murders, before judge Shyam Lal. He confirmed...
09:22 PM, May 05, 2011
Los Angeles: Prosecutors this week begin offering evidence that Michael Jackson's doctor is responsible for the pop star's death in a case that could hinge on who gave the singer a fatal dose of a powerful drug he used for sleep. Dr Conrad Murray, Jackson's physician in 2009, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death, and a Los Angeles judge on Tuesday starts the preliminary hearing -- largely...
12:30 PM, Jan 04, 2011
Minister of Law and Justice Moodbidri Veerappa Moily speaks on the Supreme Court granting bail to jailed former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore in the Ruchika molestation case. ...
05:08 PM, Nov 11, 2010
Baghdad: Saddam Hussein's foreign minister Tariq Aziz was on Tuesday sentenced to death by hanging for persecuting members of Shiite religious parties under the former regime. Iraq's high criminal court spokesman Mohammed Abdul Sahib did not say when Aziz, 74, would be put to death. The death sentence was for a conviction on charges of taking part in a Saddam-led campaign that hunted and executed members of the Shiite Dawa...
05:05 PM, Oct 26, 2010
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday decided to first hear arguments on confirmation of death sentence awarded to Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab for his role in 26/11 attacks and then proceed with his appeal against conviction and capital punishment. Justices Ranjana Desai and R V More asked the Maharashtra government to open arguments on confirmation of death sentence awarded to Kasab for killing 166 persons in the dastardly terror...
02:27 PM, Oct 07, 2010
Manning is also accused of leaking a helicopter cockpit video from Iraq that WikiLeaks posted in April. ...
01:28 PM, Aug 04, 2010
