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TopicDeath sentence

Topic: Death sentence

2018 Panipat minor rape-murder: HC sets aside death penalty, orders retrial over botched probe & trial

HC finds investigators did not send forensic report that found semen on vaginal swabs to doctors, accused not properly questioned on key evidence. In a 1st, HC embeds hyperlinks of all 35 citations.

1996 Rajasthan bus blast: Death row man with no lawyer examined witnesses himself; SC gives him 2nd chance

SC’s primary concern was not immediately evidence against Abdul Hameed, but whether he received a fair trial. It has set aside his death sentence, and ordered a fresh trial.

Death for father of 7 girls, who raped & killed 3-year-old. Hear child’s last scream, says Pune court

'Court shall perceive by its senses, 18 injuries on small child... suffering when she was sexually assaulted... leggings stuffed in her mouth... child walking with accused reposing trust,' court said.

Why Madras HC set aside death sentence of man convicted of raping minor daughter

Man's death penalty commuted to life term. Daughter was subjected to sexual assault by father under the influence of alcohol, at least 20 times, leading to her pregnancy.

Husband, kin sentenced to death for Agra double murder; cops under lens for ‘evidence tampering’

Agra man, his father & brother given death sentence for killing his wife over a suspected affair. Investigating officer & SHO also face action for alleged tampering of evidence.

Trial courts handed 128 death sentences in 2025, highest female convictions since 2016, says report

Decadal findings by Square Circle Clinic show that an overwhelming majority of death sentences imposed by trial courts did not withstand scrutiny at higher judicial levels.

Of blind love & ‘raja betas’: HC’s acquittal of a mother who ‘shielded’ son in 5-yr-old’s rape-murder

Punjab and Haryana High Court also commuted the man’s death sentence to life term, saying he ‘must stay inside the four walls of prison until he is closer to sunset of his virility’.

Raping daughter for 4 yrs, impregnating her not ‘rarest of rare’—HC turns death penalty to 30 yrs in jail

Gurugram: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has commuted the death sentence of a man from Palwal man to 30 years of rigorous imprisonment. He...

Why Supreme Court hasn’t confirmed a single death sentence in the last two years

An analysis by ThePrint finds that in a string of rulings since 2023, SC has acquitted or commuted death penalties in 14 cases, citing faulty trials and shoddy probe, among other reasons. 

In 2024, most death sentences handed out by Indian courts were for murder, not sexual offences

From 2019 to 2023, most death sentences by trial courts were for sexual offences, according to National Law University's Project 39A.

On Camera

The tank isn’t dead. It just needs a robotic army around it

Russia's 22 July mechanised assault southeast of Dobropillia deserves closer scrutiny than another declaration of the tank's death.

Dalit finance body beneficiaries nearly halve as House panel flags funding drought, board vacancies

NSFDC beneficiaries fell from 1.18 lakh to 61,394 in a year as a Parliamentary panel flagged no fresh equity, nine board vacancies and weak state agencies.

India seeks 60 new transport aircraft for IAF, invites bids for a $10 billion deal

It is reliably learnt that Airbus, which had initially offered its A400M, is likely to sit it out since its aircraft outweighs requirements with payload capacity of 37 tonnes.

Guru RSS is cautioning shishya Modi govt. Bhagwat’s endorsement of Gen Z has an Indira lesson

It’s evident Bhagwat was watching from a distance and was worried about youth’s anger towards Modi govt. The first thing he did was to demolish any criticism of Gen Z protesters as anti-national.