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The Law Commission of India stressed on the reasoning that the conditions in India demands the contrary position to the proposition of 'abolition of death penalty' and concluded the death penalty should be retained. It said that the variety of upbringing, the diversity of the population, the disparity in the levels of education and morality and ...
Any leniency shown to the accused would be a mockery of justice. Their crime has shocked collective consciousness." [40] On 4 April 2014, the court awarded the death penalty to the three repeat offenders in the photojournalist rape case. [1] This was the first time that rapists in India were given death sentences under section 376E of the IPC.
Dying declarations are allowed as evidence in Indian courts if the dying person is conscious of their danger, they have given up hopes of recovery, the death of the dying person is the subject of the charge and of the dying declaration, and if the dying person was capable of a religious sense of accountability to their Maker. [3]
The number of people executed in India since independence in 1947 is a matter of dispute; official government statistics claim that only 57 people had been executed since independence. However, available information from other sources indicates that the official government figures are false, and the actual number of executions in India may run ...
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 ] Following the conviction, the parents of the victim expressed dissatisfaction with the sentencing, stating that he deserved death penalty, adding that the CBI did not ...
If death is not only a stoppage of the heart but a flatlining of brain waves, it's hard to explain how people who flatlined on the operating table can revive and describe to the doctors what they ...
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.
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