The petition dates back to 2017, but still awaits an outcome. In 2018, the Centre opposed abolishing death by hanging for convicts, saying it wasn’t ‘practically feasible’.
Post Nirbhaya case, the existing laws were altered and policy was made stringent. The facts of the case squarely fall under the prevailing norms and thus capital punishment is what the accused deserves.
According to the prosecution, the convict poisoned Sharon Raj, 23, after he refused to end their relationship when her family fixed her marriage with an Army officer.
Kenneth Smith, convicted of a 1988 murder-for-hire, is the first to be executed using a new method of capital punishment since lethal injections began in the US four decades ago.
Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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