Also on Monday, two lawyers filed separate pleas with Attorney General KK Venugopal, seeking his consent to initiate contempt proceedings a...

The nullification of Article 370 has been a long-standing BJP campaign promise. Therefore, the GoI decision can be seen as principled polit...

"This was an attempt by Rahul Gandhi to manufacture a lie and create a controversy in the Rafale deal... He should apologise to the people ...

The legality of the Dhingra Commission report, first published in ET, and its subsequent report are hanging fire before the Punjab and Hary...

Former President, Pranab Mukherjee, had in May shown no mercy on a plea by a driver and his friend convicted and sentenced to death for the...

Former Supreme Court judge P V Reddi, who headed a two-judge bench which upheld Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s death sentence.

Congress today distanced itself from its senior leader P Chidambaram's remark that the case of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.

But it has been reluctant to completely do away with award of death penalty , saying there were certain cases where, as long as the extreme.

The top-most judges of the country being woken up in the middle of the night and having to dash across to the Supreme Court for final heari...

Anand Grover appeared for National Law University, Delhi and assisted Yakub's counsel Raju Ramachandran and senior advocate TR Andhyarujina.

Ujjwal Nikam, who led the prosecution team during the trial in TADA Court, said the dismisal of Memom's curative petition was "historic".

The Majority judgement of the Supreme Court had said government may consult presiding judge of bench under Section 432 (2) of CrPC.

The parliamentary standing committee on home affairs had recommended that all mercy petitions should be decided by the President within thr...

Justice VR Krishna Iyer says death penalty should be abolished even for terrorists as by hanging a terrorist would not deter future terror ...

It also had also shown no leniency, with few aberrations, to those convicted in rape-murder cases, especially involving minors and mentally...

They are on death row even after the Supreme Court admitted — not once but thrice — that the decisions awarding death sentences had been re...

SC order to make full payment of more than Rs 1,100 cr in state advised cane price to farmers in UP has thrown the industry in a quandary.