Mahendra Hembram, convicted in the 1999 Graham Staines murder case, has been released from Keonjhar jail after serving 25 years due to good...

The 11 convicts sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Salvi were granted remission by the Gujarat government, leading to their prematur...

SC set aside the judgement delivered in May 2014 by the High Court of Chhattisgarh which had dismissed an appeal filed by the accused again...

A bench of Justices L N Rao and B R Gavai passed the order while hearing two separate appeals filed by convicts in different murder cases r...

Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Kulshreshtha sentenced Thakur to life imprisonment for remainder of his natural life.

Apart from Salem, the court had also convicted Mohammed Tahir Merchant alias Tahir Takla, Karimullah Khan, Riyaz Siddiqui and Feroze Abdul ...

Anwar's death and many more because of apathy or aloofness of bystanders, whose compassion and duty are increasingly numbed by mobile photo...

The Tamil Nadu government wrote to Union home ministry informing them about its decision to release the seven convicts in the Rajiv case.

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.

Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated at an election rally at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu on May 21, 1991 by human bomb Dhanu after a conspiracy by...

In 2008, a two-judge SC bench in Swamy Shraddhanand vs Karnataka was divided over confirming death penalty though both trial and HC were un...

Noted legal expert Fali S Nariman sought an early adjudication of this question, which he had raised more than five years ago and still rem...

Superintendents of Jail are directed to intimate the rejection of mercy petitions to the nearest legal aid centre apart from intimating the...

A bench headed by Justice K S Radhakrishnan said that the issue is very "serious" and asked the govts to take immediate steps to control th...

The life imprisonment implies a jail term till the end of convict's life and it is not limited to merely 14 or 20 years, which is a misconc...

Maya Kodnani, former Gujarat minister for women and child development between 2007-2009, was the highest-profile conviction to date in conn...

A special court here on Monday sentenced 11 persons to life imprisonment for their involvement in Bilkis Bano gang-rape and murder of eight...