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.
A special court in Nalgonda on Monday awarded capital punishment to the hired killer Subhash Sharma, convicted in the sensational case of the honour killing of Dalit youth at the Miryalaguda town of Telangana on 14 September 2018.
The Orissa High Court exercising judicial restraint and playing a balancing role commuted the death sentence awarded to nine condemned convicts for perpetrating a witchcraft-related triple murder more than eight years back to imprisonment for the rest of their life.
Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death in Yemen, is a trained nurse and has worked in private hospitals in Yemen for a few years. She was awarded a life sentence in 2020 after being convicted of killing one Talal Abdo Mahdi, who she accused of fraud and abuse, in 2017.
The convict, driven by unrequited obsession, abducted the child, doused him in petrol, and set him ablaze to exact revenge against the boy's mother.
Additional Sessions Judge (First) Pawan Kumar Sharma on Friday sentenced two convicts to death for the murder of the woman along with her one son and two daughters. They were declared guilty two days ago.
