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Rasha alias Raghuraj Singh, executed on 9 September 1947 at Jabalpur Central Jail, is presumed to be the first person executed in independent India. [3] Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma, who were hanged on 20 March 2020, were the last persons to be executed in India. Rattan Bai Jain, executed on 3 January 1955 at Tihar ...
Date of death Place of death Description Feast Pantaenus: 2nd century AD Sicily: c. 200 Alexandria, Egypt A Greek theologian and a significant figure in the Catechetical School of Alexandria who lived as a missionary in India. 7 July Severus of Vienne: India: c. 455 Italy: A missionary priest in France, Indian by birth. 8 August: Petroc: c. 468 ...
The report covers movements in the death row population in India as well as political and legal developments in the administration of the death penalty and the criminal justice system. The 162 death sentences imposed by trial courts in 2018 is the highest in a calendar year since 2000.
Six men Ankush Maruti Shinde, Rajya Appa Shinde, Ambadas Laxman Shinde, Raju Mhasu Shinde, Bapu Appa Shinde and Suresh Shinde were convicted and sentenced to death penalty in 2009 on charges of rape and murder. On 6 March 2019, the Supreme Court of India acquitted all the six death-row convicts and proclaimed them innocent. [3] [4]
Madatharuvi case refers to a murder in Kerala, India. The case involved the 1966 murder of a widow named Mariyakutty. A priest, Fr. Benedict Onamkulam, was convicted of the crime. Sessions court sentenced the priest to death but the Church approached the high court and freed him.
The main accused Kailash Meena was arrested within 24 hours of the incident by the Rajasthan police. [8] The family members of the priest demanded compensation of Rs 50 lakh and a government job and refused to cremate the body until their demands are met.
Swamy was the director of the Jesuit-run Indian Social Institute, Bangalore, from 1975 to 1986. [10] He worked among the tribals of central India for over three decades [11] and had questioned the non-implementation of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution, which stipulates setting up of a Tribes Advisory Council with members solely of the Adivasi community for their protection, well-being ...
India was ranked 15th in the world in terms of danger to Christians, up from 31st four years earlier. According to the report, it is estimated that a church was burnt down or a cleric beaten on average 10 times a week in India in the year to 31 October 2016, a threefold increase on the previous year. [23]