The Delhi high court had dismissed their plea seeking stay on the sessions court order and asked the trial court to proceed with the matter.

According to the report, India did not register a single execution in 2016 but it had more than 400 prisoners who were to be executed at th...

In recent charge sheet filed, CBI has accused Harfan Maula for allegedly acquiring fake Afghan passport in the name of Balbir Singh while i...

Five Pakistan navy officers linked to the Islamic State have been sentenced to death in a secret military trail for allegedly planning to h...

Pakistan lifted moratorium on the death penalty after Taliban attacked a school in Peshawar and killed 136 students.

Justice Pratibha Rani, however, exempted the two accused -- Tejinder Pal Singh and Satnam Singh -- from personal appearance before the tria...

A bill to award death penalty to hijackers is likely to be brought in Parliament in the next session.

"Has the BJP not compromised with terrorists? After the hijack of Indian Airlines plane to Kandahar, who released the dreaded terrorists?"

Jitender Kumar Mohla triggered a hijack scare in 2009 by claiming aboard a Goa-Delhi Indigo flight that he had infected needles and a gun.

A local court today acquitted three persons charged with looting a bank and later transferring a part of the booty for the hijack of Indian...

One of the reasons cited by court to award death penalty on Kasab was that keeping him alive would be a lingering danger to India.

The government today cleared proposals to make the anti-hijacking law even more more stringent by including death sentence as a punishment

The anti-hijacking law will now include a death sentence as punishment.

Half of India's population today wasn't born when she died in 1986 in a hail of gunfire on a hijacked plane after courageously saving score...

With the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the humiliating 1999 Kandahar hijack firmly on its radar, the UPA government plans to amend the Anti-Hi...

A CBI court on Tuesday sentenced Abdul Latif, Dalip Kumar and Yusuf Nepali to life imprisonment in the Kandahar hijack case.

Intelligence inputs suggested terrorists may attempt to hijack an aircraft seeking Afzal Guru's release.