A Special Court on Wednesday awarded the death sentence to all three accused in the rape and brutal murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Kopardi village in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district in July 2016. The convicts are: Jitendra alias Pappu Babulal Shinde, 26, Santosh Gorkha Bhawal, 30, and Nitin Gopinath Bhailume,[Read More…]
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1993 Mumbai blast: Abu Salem, Karimullah Khan get life imprisonment
The Terrorist and Disruptive Activity (TADA) court on Thursday sentenced convicts Abu Salem and Karimullah Khan to life imprisonment in the 1993 Mumbai blast case. The other two convicts, Tahir Merchant and Feroz Khan were awarded death sentence by the court. Convict, Riyaz Siddiqui was sentenced to 10 years in[Read More…]
Nithari serial murders: Moninder Singh Pandher sentenced to death
Following the arrest and conviction by Central Bureau of Investigation, a court on Saturday charged the businessman Moninder Singh Pandher guilty of murdering a 20-year-old woman, one of the several cases known as the Nithari serial killings of 2006. On Monday, Pandher has been sentenced to death. There is a[Read More…]
Kulbushan Jadhav row: Nawaz Sharif meets Pakistan Army chief after stay on hanging
On Wednesday, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa held a meeting after International Court of Justice stayed the hanging of Indian “spy” Kulbushan Jadhav. This was their second meeting in the same week and is significant considering the light of prevailing tension in the[Read More…]
Experts praised India after International Court stays death sentence given to Jadhav by Pakistan
Post the International Court of Justice (ICJ) stayed the death sentence given by Pakistan to alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, the defence experts on Wednesday praised the efforts put by the Indian Government into the matter and said that Pakistani Military Court had no jurisdiction over Jadhav. “As a military[Read More…]
Pakistan claims more evidence against Kulbhushan Jadhav
Pakistan has reportedly prepared a fresh dossier containing evidence against former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav who was sentenced to death for his alleged involvements in espionage activities in Karachi and Balochistan. The new report with more evidences against Jhadav will be submitted to United Nations. The new dossier consists[Read More…]
Shashi Tharoor helps govt draft statement on Jadhav death sentence row
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor helped government draft a statement on the death sentence handed to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav in Pakistan, in a show of rare bipartisan cooperation. The statement, which may be moved as a resolution in the Lok Sabha, will be vetted by PM Modi and other parties.[Read More…]
Former Indian Navy officer sentenced to death by Pak
Mohamed Morsi’s death sentence overturned, Egypt court orders retrial
Egypt’s highest court has overturned a death sentence against ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The court also ordered a retrial on Tuesday, according to judicial sources. Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Morsi was overthrown by a military coup in July 2013 after having served just one year of a four-year[Read More…]