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.
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.
Reacting to their death sentence, the external affairs ministry had earlier expressed its "deep shock" and said that it was exploring all the legal options to challenge the Qatar court verdict.
A court in Uttar Pradesh's Aurraiya district has awarded the death sentence to a man who was convicted for raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl earlier this year.
Balwant Singh Rajoana is a convict in the case of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh assassination.
The convict, a Tamil Nadu man, Sundar alias Sundararajan, had kidnapped and murdered a seven-year-old boy in 2009 following the inability of the victims’ parents to meet the demand of the ransom of Rs 5 lakh.
Judge Ambalal R Patel announced a compensation of Rs one lakh for the families of the deceased, Rs 50,000 for the seriously injured and Rs 25,000 for those who suffered minor injuries.
