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Beant Singh assassination case: SC asks Centre to file affidavit on Rajoana's pleaThe Supreme Court has given the Centre two weeks to respond to Balwant Singh Rajoana's plea. Rajoana, convicted in the assassination of for...
President rejects mercy pleas of Nithari killer, 5 othersThe files relating to the five mercy pleas, one of which involves two sisters, were cleared by the President and returned to the home minis...
Supreme Court tightens the law to prevent secret hangingsThe Supreme Court has tightened the law to prevent the government from executing a mentally ill person like Punjab militant Devinder Pal Si...
- Germany seeks clemency for Devinder Bhullar
Germany has sought clemency for death row convict Khalistani terrorist Devinder Bhullar and written a letter to India in this regard.
Germany has no locus standi to seek clemency for Bhullar: IndiaIndia does not see any locus standi of Germany in case of death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar for whom they are pressing clemency
Punjab CM meets PM, seeks clemency for BhullarParkash Singh Badal asked Prime Minister on Monday to find a way so that Khalistani terrorist Devendarpal Singh Bullar gets clemency.
- Supreme Court rejects Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's mercy petition
The Supreme Court has rejected the mercy petition of Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, who is on death row for a 1993 bomb blast in Delhi that ki...
- SC says no commutation in terror cases, Bhullar not too ill to avoid gallows
Bhullar’s wife and mother had pleaded with the court to commute his death sentence, pointing out that he was mentally ill.
LTTE campaign delayed Rajiv Gandhi's killers’ hanging, source saysA close scrutiny of documents accessed under RTI shows that the 1999 verdict led to international and domestic pressure on the government.
- Ajmal Kasab pleaded for 'daya' in a four-line plea
The hand written petition dated September 12, 2012, which has been made public more than a month after Kasab was hanged, shows glaring Urdu...
Death for Kasab: Govt guided by SC’s ‘rarest of rare’ standSupreme Court, upholding the decision of the trial court which was affirmed by the Bombay high court, had said that there was no escaping t...
- Uproar in J&K Assembly over resolution for clemency to Afzal Guru
BJP and NPP demanded that the resolution seeking clemency for Guru, which was listed in the business for today, be dropped from the list.
- Rajiv Gandhi case: Families of those killed want convicts to be hanged
Along with Congress workers, the family members sat on a day-long fast opposing the clemency for the three convicts.
- Over 20 death row convicts await final word on their mercy pleas
As of today there are 22 other death row convicts waiting for a final word from the president on their mercy petitions. One of these petiti...
- Parties step up campaign to grant reprieve for Rajiv Gandhi killers
DMK and some other parties on Monday stepped up their campaign for getting three Rajiv Gandhi assassins reprieve.
- Rajiv Gandhi killers' appeal against death sentence in Madras HC
Three convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case have moved Madras high court challenging the rejection of their clemency pleas by Preside...
- Home Ministry forwards mercy petition of Afzal Guru to President with advice to hang him
Home Ministry has forwarded the mercy petition of Mohammad Afzal Guru to the President, with the advice that the SC judgement upholding his...
- Never asked for clemency for Afzal, says Azad
Making a neat U-turn, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that he never urged the prime minister to grant clemency to Pa...
- Court Can Review Pardon: SC
In a judgement that can have major ramifications on the mercy plea for the key facilitator of the jehadi attack on Parliament, Mohd Afzal, ...
- Kalam to meet Afzal’s family today
President APJ Abdul Kalam will give personal hearing on Thursday to the family of Mohammed Afzal Guru.