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.
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.
On July 17, 2019, the ICJ ruled that Pakistan must review the death sentence given to Kulbhushan Jadhav.
Earlier, the Supreme Court today rejected the plea of convict Mukesh Singh, seeking restoration of all his legal remedies alleging that his earlier lawyers misled him.
A special court in Islamabad on December 17 last year handed down the death penalty to the 74-year-old retired general.
The court also observed that if taking into consideration the reformation of the convicts after conviction is accepted, then no death penalty can be carried out.
The case is of 2016 when accused Rahul, an auto-rickshaw driver, raped a girl on finding her alone.
