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Haryana Gangster Vikas Gulia, Associate Jailed For Life
A Delhi court has sentenced Haryana gangster Vikas Gulia and his associate to life imprisonment under MCOCA provisions, but refused the death penalty saying the offences did not fall under the category of 'rarest of the rare cases'.
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"Have To Pursue Till He Gets Death Penalty": Unnao Rape Survivor's Promise
The Unnao rape survivor has expressed faith in the Supreme Court after it stayed a Delhi High Court order suspending the sentence of Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the ex-BJP MLA who raped her.
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Opinion | Why Calling Hasina's Trial 'Unfair' Is Missing The Point Entirely
This whole process essentially marks a departure from past eras in Bangladesh when trials-even of mass atrocity-were weak on facts, heavy on politics.
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32-Year-Old Telangana Man Gets Death Penalty For Murdering Wife, 2 Children
A court in Vikarabad district on Thursday awarded a death sentence to a 32-year-old man for brutally murdering his wife and two children in August 2019.
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Opinion: How Hasina's Death Sentence Has Put Delhi-Dhaka Relations At Crossroads
The Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity, which also included directing destructive force during the June 2024 student-led protests.
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Opinion | Dhaka Irony: How A Court Set Up By Hasina's Father Sentenced Her To Death
As each day passes, the darkness of religious intolerance will only grow. That, in some ways, is even more dangerous. Especially now. Radicalism doesn't come out of a vacuum.
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Can India Deny Dhaka's Request To Extradite Sheikh Hasina? What Rules Say
After Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh's ousted prime minister, was sentenced to death in absentia for "crimes against humanity", the interim government in Dhaka urged India to immediately extradite the deposed leader.
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Opinion | With Sheikh Hasina's Death Sentence, It's 1975 Again In Bangladesh
Hasina becomes an emblem of the circularity of South Asian history, where leaders are alternately elevated as saviours and condemned as tyrants, often within a single lifetime.
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"Very Troubling": Shashi Tharoor On Death Penalty To Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Hasina was on Monday sentenced to death in absentia by a special tribunal in Bangladesh for "crimes against humanity".
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Sheikh Hasina Gets Death Penalty, Dhaka Court Cites "Crimes Against Humanity"
Hasina, 78, is currently living in exile in India, after defying the tribunal's orders to face trial for ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising on August 5, 2024.
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Bangladesh Okays Death Penalty For Enforced Disappearances
Bangladesh's government approved a draft ordinance prescribing the death penalty for perpetrators of "enforced disappearance", amidthe ongoing trial of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 15 serving military officers over crimes against humanity.
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Death Penalty For 5 For Murdering Chittoor Mayor, Husband In 2015
Katari Anuradha and her husband, Katari Mohan, were murdered inside the Chittoor Municipal Corporation office in November 2015.
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In Doctor Suicide Case, Father's Death Penalty Appeal To Devendra Fadnavis
The father of the 26-year-old doctor who died by suicide in Maharashtra's Satara has sought the death penalty for the culprits responsible for her daughter's death.
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As India Sticks To Death By Hanging, A Look At Execution Methods Across The World
The Supreme Court is listening to a proposal to give convicts on death row an option of choosing lethal injection as an alternative to death by hanging as a mode of execution.
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Plea Seeks Removal Of Afzal Guru, Maqbool Bhatt's Graves From Tihar Jail Premises
A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking directions to remove the graves of terrorists Mohammad Afzal Guru and Mohammad Maqbool Bhatt, who were awarded death penalty and executed in Tihar jail.
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Haryana Gangster Vikas Gulia, Associate Jailed For Life
A Delhi court has sentenced Haryana gangster Vikas Gulia and his associate to life imprisonment under MCOCA provisions, but refused the death penalty saying the offences did not fall under the category of 'rarest of the rare cases'.
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"Have To Pursue Till He Gets Death Penalty": Unnao Rape Survivor's Promise
The Unnao rape survivor has expressed faith in the Supreme Court after it stayed a Delhi High Court order suspending the sentence of Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the ex-BJP MLA who raped her.
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Opinion | Why Calling Hasina's Trial 'Unfair' Is Missing The Point Entirely
This whole process essentially marks a departure from past eras in Bangladesh when trials-even of mass atrocity-were weak on facts, heavy on politics.
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32-Year-Old Telangana Man Gets Death Penalty For Murdering Wife, 2 Children
A court in Vikarabad district on Thursday awarded a death sentence to a 32-year-old man for brutally murdering his wife and two children in August 2019.
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Opinion: How Hasina's Death Sentence Has Put Delhi-Dhaka Relations At Crossroads
The Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity, which also included directing destructive force during the June 2024 student-led protests.
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Opinion | Dhaka Irony: How A Court Set Up By Hasina's Father Sentenced Her To Death
As each day passes, the darkness of religious intolerance will only grow. That, in some ways, is even more dangerous. Especially now. Radicalism doesn't come out of a vacuum.
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Can India Deny Dhaka's Request To Extradite Sheikh Hasina? What Rules Say
After Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh's ousted prime minister, was sentenced to death in absentia for "crimes against humanity", the interim government in Dhaka urged India to immediately extradite the deposed leader.
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Opinion | With Sheikh Hasina's Death Sentence, It's 1975 Again In Bangladesh
Hasina becomes an emblem of the circularity of South Asian history, where leaders are alternately elevated as saviours and condemned as tyrants, often within a single lifetime.
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"Very Troubling": Shashi Tharoor On Death Penalty To Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Hasina was on Monday sentenced to death in absentia by a special tribunal in Bangladesh for "crimes against humanity".
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Sheikh Hasina Gets Death Penalty, Dhaka Court Cites "Crimes Against Humanity"
Hasina, 78, is currently living in exile in India, after defying the tribunal's orders to face trial for ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising on August 5, 2024.
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Bangladesh Okays Death Penalty For Enforced Disappearances
Bangladesh's government approved a draft ordinance prescribing the death penalty for perpetrators of "enforced disappearance", amidthe ongoing trial of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 15 serving military officers over crimes against humanity.
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Death Penalty For 5 For Murdering Chittoor Mayor, Husband In 2015
Katari Anuradha and her husband, Katari Mohan, were murdered inside the Chittoor Municipal Corporation office in November 2015.
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In Doctor Suicide Case, Father's Death Penalty Appeal To Devendra Fadnavis
The father of the 26-year-old doctor who died by suicide in Maharashtra's Satara has sought the death penalty for the culprits responsible for her daughter's death.
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As India Sticks To Death By Hanging, A Look At Execution Methods Across The World
The Supreme Court is listening to a proposal to give convicts on death row an option of choosing lethal injection as an alternative to death by hanging as a mode of execution.
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Plea Seeks Removal Of Afzal Guru, Maqbool Bhatt's Graves From Tihar Jail Premises
A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking directions to remove the graves of terrorists Mohammad Afzal Guru and Mohammad Maqbool Bhatt, who were awarded death penalty and executed in Tihar jail.
