Qatar sentences 8 former Navy officials to death; India says ‘shocked’, exploring legal options
India said it was exploring all legal options and would take up the verdict with the authorities concerned.
India said it was exploring all legal options and would take up the verdict with the authorities concerned.
"I want Atiq's empire to end, I don't want him to be alive. I urge the court to give him a death sentence," Umesh Pal's widow Jaya Pal said.
"The whole family is horrified by Nikki's murder and there is silence in the streets of Khedi village of Jhajjar. I urge PM Modi to hang the killer of the daughter," Nikki's uncle Praveen Yadav said.
A Lucknow-based special court of NIA-ATS held Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi guilty on Friday last and pronounced the quantum of punishment on Monday.
The convicts, Asif (34) and Akil (33), had committed the crime on 21 August in 2014 at a village under Tirtol police station of the coastal district of Jagatsinghpur.
The proposed new law has been named the Andhra Pradesh Disha Act Criminal Law (AP Amendment) Act, 2019 as a tribute to the veterinary doctor who was raped and murdered recently in neighbouring Telangana.
The Delhi court said it will wait to pass its order on the issuance of death warrants against the four people convicted in the case till the Supreme Court hearing on the review petition of one of the convicts.
Earlier on Sunday, the Delhi government had 'strongly recommended' the rejection of the mercy petition filed by convict Vinay Sharma.
Speaking on rising crimes against women in the country, Kejriwal said 'it is a failure of law and order, and enforcement'.
In the recommendation, Delhi Home Minister Satyendar Jain said this was the case where exemplary punishment should be given to deter others from committing such atrocious crimes.
