Kerala court awards death sentence to 15 PFI/SDPI members in BJP leader murder case
It is for the first time in Kerala that so many people have been sentenced to death in a single case.
It is for the first time in Kerala that so many people have been sentenced to death in a single case.
Srinivasan, an OBC wing leader of the BJP, was brutally killed in front of his mother, wife and daughter in Alappuzha district in December 2021.
Bangladeshi native Hilaluddin and Nafikul Biswas, a resident of West Bengal, were declared guilty by Additional Sessions Judge Rajesh Kumar Rai on December 22.
“We have noted the verdict today of the Court of Appeal of Qatar in the Dahra Global case, in which the sentences have been reduced,” the MEA said in a statement.
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.
Beant Singh and 16 others were killed in an explosion outside the Civil Secretariat in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995.
The apex court was hearing 32-year-old convict Ravi's plea challenging the Bombay High Court’s order which has confirmed the death penalty after holding him guilty of murder and rape.
Asia Bibi, a 47-year-old mother of five, was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting Islam in a row with her neighbours.
While words on social media often land people in trouble, a convict’s poems written while in prison saved his life.
The death sentence awarded on Monday to Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg on drug charges after Ottawa’s detention of a Chinese executive, Meng Wanzhou, is a direly worrisome trans-Atlantic joust.
