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Lethal Lottery: Death Penalty in India is a report submitted by Amnesty International with contribution of The People's Union for Civil Liberties. [5] The report puts forth the view that India's Death Penalty System works under fatal flaws and should be abolished. [156]
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 ...
In March 2010, a Karnal district court sentenced the five perpetrators to death, the first time an Indian court had done so in an honour killing case. The khap head who ordered but did not take part in the killings received a life sentence , and the driver involved in the abduction a seven-year prison term.
Custodial deaths in India may refer to the deaths in police custody and also to the deaths of persons in judicial custody while undergoing trial or serving a sentence. In the financial year 2021–22, the National Human Rights Commission of India reported 2152 deaths had occurred in judicial custody and 155 deaths had occurred in police custody till 28 February 2022.
The judge further ordered the state to award a compensation of 17 Lakh rupees(US$ 20,000) to the family of the victim as the crime took place at her place of work. Anirban Das, the Additional District and Sessions Judge in Sealdah noted that this wasn't one of the rarest of the rare cases and didn't award the death penalty to Roy. [65]
In December 2015, Mongolia repealed the death penalty for all crimes. [23] India rarely executes criminals, carrying out just 30 executions since 1991. [24] India most recently executed 4 perpetrators of a gang rape and murder case in March 2020. [25] Japan sometimes executes criminals, carrying out 130 executions since 1993.
His death penalty was commuted to life term imprisonment after a Supreme Court verdict on 18 February 2014. [16] According to the CBI, Perarivalan confessed on 14 August 1991, and 15 August 1991 to purchasing the batteries making him the main suspect. Right from the start, Perarivalan had firmly stated that his confession statements were distorted.
Similarly, specific reference to section 302 ("tazīrāt-e-Hind dafā tīn-sau-do ke tehet sazā-e-maut", "punishment of death under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code"), which covers the death penalty, have become part of common knowledge in the region due to repeated mentions of it in Bollywood movies and regional pulp literature.