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What did you do after your husband was attacked: SC questions Sonam Raghuvanshi's conductThe Supreme Court questioned Sonam Raghuvanshi's actions in her husband's murder case. She is accused of killing her husband during their h...
1996 Rajasthan blast: SC sets aside death penalty of convict, acquits liferThe Supreme Court ordered a fresh trial for a death row convict in a 1996 bus blast case. It also acquitted a lifer and dismissed state app...
SC rejects convicts' plea against 2-judge bench hearing Godhra train burning appealsThe Supreme Court has dismissed the plea that a two-judge bench cannot hear appeals against convictions in the 2002 Godhra train burning ca...
SC to hear on May 6, 7 pleas of Gujarat, convicts in Godhra train burning caseThe Supreme Court has scheduled the final hearing for May 6 and 7 regarding appeals in the 2002 Godhra train burning case, involving the Gu...
Godhra train burning: SC to hear pleas against HC order on February 13The Supreme Court of India has scheduled February 13 for the final hearing of appeals in the 2002 Godhra train burning case. The Gujarat go...
Godhra carnage case: No more adjournments, next hearing on January 15; Supreme Court saysThe Supreme Court will hear appeals on January 15 from the Gujarat government and convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case. The Gujar...
Kerala High Court upholds death sentence in 2016 Dalit law student rape-murder caseThe Kerala High Court affirmed the death sentence for Ameerul Islam, who brutally raped and murdered a Dalit law student in 2016. Despite h...
SC grants bail to eight accused in 2002 Godhra train coach-burning caseThe Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to eight accused persons in connection with the 2002 Godhra train coach-burning case. The court, o...
Jigisha murder: HC commutes death penalty to 2 to life termWhile sentencing the two to death, the trial court had said the 28-year-old woman was killed in a "cold-blooded, inhuman and cruel manner" ...
Supreme Court 'grievously erred' in Soumya case: Markandey KatjuSupreme Court had yesterday quashed Govindachamy's death penalty, but upheld life imprisonment for raping 23-year-old Soumya on February 1,...
Supreme Court judge in Afzal case slams critics of the judgementFormer Supreme Court judge P V Reddi, who headed a two-judge bench which upheld Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s death sentence.
Bangladesh Supreme Court upholds opposition leader's death sentenceChief Justice S.K. Sinha delivered the verdict against Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, a former aide to ex-...
SC stays execution of death sentence of couple who killed 7It came to light during investigation that the couple had made the girl's family members drink milk laced with sedatives and then killed th...
Supreme Court upholds death penalty to Yakub Memon for 1993 Mumbai serial blasts caseSupreme Court today dismissed a plea of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon seeking review of award of death penalty to him in the 1993 Mumbai serial b...
Bangladesh's Supreme Court upholds death sentence of Jamaat stalwartQuamruzzaman, an assistant secretary general of Jamaat, is the third war crimes convict whose appeal was disposed off in the Supreme Court.
- Kasab death penalty upheld by Bombay High Court
Media reports said the judges dismissed the appeal by Kasab over his role in the attacks that killed 166 and injured more than 300 people.
- President commutes death sentence of eight to life
Ms Patil, who is understood to be against death penalty because of her religious beliefs, gave her order on June 15 on mercy petitions.