In a landmark judgment, a trial court in Madurai on Monday awarded a double death sentence to all nine police personnel convicted in the 2020 custodial murder of a father-son duo in Sattankulam in Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district.
The prosecution confirmed that the prime accused, Sarfaraz, has been sentenced to death, while nine others have been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Following Sheikh Hasina's conviction, Yunus said, "Justice will not merely survive in Bangladesh. It will prevail and sustain."
The Bangaldeshi foreign ministry noted that after their conviction, granting asylum to them in India would be a "highly objectionable act and a violation of international norms and principles of justice."
Hasina acknowledged that her regime had indeed lost control of the situation, but asserted that the events of July-August 2024, which resulted in her government's fall, cannot be characterised as a premeditated assault on citizens.
Congress leader K C Venugopal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking urgent intervention to save Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse facing execution in Yemen.
The Additional District and Sessions Court of Sagwara sentenced Hoorji Bamaniya of Bawri village to death by hanging for the rape and murder of a 70-year-old woman on June 3, 2022.
The Sessions Court Judge Prasoon Mohan, who delivered the verdict, stated that no punishment other than the death penalty is appropriate to the accused, given the severity and brutality of the crime.
A division bench of the Telangana High Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence awarded to five convicts in the 2013 Dilsukhnagar twin blasts case, including Yasin Bhatkal.
A local court sentenced three convicts to death in a 44-year-old case of mass murder of 24 Dalits in Dihuli village of Jasrana, Firozabad.
