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Case BriefsForeign Courts

Malaysia CoA | Thai national sentenced to death penalty for drug trafficking by invoking statutory presumption under Dangerous Drugs Act, 1952

Malaysia Court of Appeal: A Full Bench of Kamardin Hashim, Hanipah Farikullah, Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah, JCA dismissed the appeal filed by

Published on November 28, 2019December 12, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Foreign LegislationLegislation Updates

Parliament receives President’s assent for — the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2019; Provision of “death penalty” included

After the Parliament approval, President of India, Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent for the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Amendment)

Published on August 2, 2019August 21, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Legislation UpdatesStatutes/Bills/Ordinances

Rajya Sabha passes POCSO (Amendment) Bill, 2019

Rajya Sabha passed the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2019, yesterday, i.e. 24-07-2019 with a death penalty provision for

Published on July 25, 2019August 2, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

MP HC | Death penalty of man accused of rape and murder of daughter reduced to life imprisonment

Madhya Pradesh High Court: A Division Bench of J.K. Maheshwari and Anjuli Palo, JJ. partly allowed a criminal petition filed by a

Published on July 17, 2019July 25, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsForeign Courts

Pak SC | Dying Declaration: Exception to direct rule of evidence – requires demonstration of no extraneous prompting by anyone to declarant

Supreme Court of Pakistan: A Full Bench of Manzoor Ahmad Malik, Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, JJ. set

Published on June 26, 2019July 5, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Bom HC | Acid Attack Case: Attacker’s conviction upheld but death penalty commuted holding him to be of young age and not beyond reformation

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of B.P. Dharmadhikari and Prakash D. Naik, JJ. allowed an appeal by a convict who was

Published on June 21, 2019June 27, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Hot Off The PressNews

International News Update | New Hampshire abolishes death penalty; overrides governor’s veto

According to the media reports, New Hampshire in a recent development abolishes capital punishment in the State. “New Hampshire, which hasn’t executed

Published on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Ker HC | No pre-meditation, no criminal antecedents – death penalty of man accused of rape and murder turned into life imprisonment

Kerala High Court: The Division Bench of A.M. Shaffique and P. Somarajan, JJ. was hearing a death reference tagged along with a

Published on January 18, 2019January 19, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsForeign Courts

Mandatory for Court to give death penalty on commission of offence of aggravated robbery

Supreme Court of Zambia: This appeal was filed before a 3-Judge Bench comprising of Hamaundu, Kajimanga and Chinyama, JJS., where trial court

Published on December 25, 2018January 16, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsSupreme Court

Justice Kurian Joseph calls for review of need for death penalty; Deepak Gupta and Hemant Gupta, JJ. disagree: SC

“Society’s perspective is generally formed by the emotionally charged narratives, which need not necessarily be legally correct, properly informed or procedurally proper.”

Published on November 30, 2018November 30, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Death Penalty to be reserved for rarest of the rare cases”: Patna HC

Patna High Court: A Division Bench of Arvind Srivastava and Rakesh Kumar, JJ., upheld the judgment of the trial court and dismissed

Published on November 12, 2018November 13, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Legislation UpdatesStatutes/Bills/Ordinances

Parliament| Bill highlighting the provision of “Death penalty to the convicts of child rapists” passed by Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha passed a bill seeking to replace Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance by placing a significant provision of death penalty to the

Published on July 31, 2018August 2, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsInternational Courts

Mandatory Death Penalty in Barbados held Unconstitutional: CCJ

Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ): In the court of Sir Dennis Byron, President and Honourable Justice Saunders, Wit, Hayton, Anderson, Rajnauth-Lee and Barrow

Published on July 5, 2018August 29, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

‘Life imprisonment’ to be awarded when there is a prospect of rehabilitation and reformation, and ‘death penalty’ to be the last resort

Delhi High Court: The recent judgment passed by a bench comprising of S. Muralidhar and I. S. Mehta,JJ., held that ‘life imprisonment’

Published on January 9, 2018January 12, 2018By Saba
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Case BriefsSupreme Court

Nirbhaya Case: Death penalty for the 4 accused upheld

Supreme Court: Almost after 5 years of the commission of the horrendous crime that shook not only the nation but the world,

Published on May 5, 2017July 9, 2018By Prachi Bhardwaj
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Case BriefsSupreme Court

Man, guilty of burning his pregnant wife and 3-year-old son, not to face death penalty

Supreme Court: In the case where death penalty was sought for a man who allegedly set his 7-month pregnant wife on fire

Published on April 7, 2017April 15, 2017By Prachi Bhardwaj
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Supreme Court of The United States
Case BriefsForeign Courts

Defendants must be allowed to tell jurors in death penalty cases if they are ineligible for parole

Supreme Court of United States: The Court by a majority of 6:2 reversed the decision of the Arizona Supreme Court where the

Published on June 8, 2016August 20, 2016By Sucheta
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Supreme Court of The United States
Case BriefsForeign Courts

Racial Bias in Jury selection for death penalty case was committed by the State prosecutors

Supreme Court of United States: Ruling that prosecutors in Georgia violated the Constitution by striking every black prospective juror in a death penalty

Published on May 30, 2016August 20, 2016By Sucheta
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Supreme Court

Yakub Memon’s plea against the curative petition and issuance of death warrant, dismissed

Supreme Court: In the wake of the divergent views expressed earlier by the Division Bench of A.R. Dave and Kurian Joseph, JJ.,

Published on July 30, 2015November 23, 2015By Sucheta
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High Courts

Death penalty to the accused confirmed for raping and killing a 13 year old girl

Bombay High Court: In a recent judgment, a bench comprising of VK Tahilramani and IK Jain, JJ has confirmed the death penalty

Published on February 24, 2015October 14, 2015By Sucheta
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