-The Hindu The Communist Party of India (Marxist) described death penalty as "inhuman" and said death penalty should be abolished in the country as it is "arbitrarily implemented" and advocated imprisonment till death in rarest of the rare cases. A decision on the party's position was taken at a two-day Central Committee meeting of the CPI(M) that concluded here on Sunday. Talking to reporters here on Monday, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat said...
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Germany seeks clemency for Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar -Shubhajit Roy
-The Indian Express Almost a month after the Supreme Court dismissed convicted Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's plea that his death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment, German President Joachim Gauck and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle have written to their Indian counterparts seeking clemency for Bhullar. Bhullar, who was convicted for the 1993 car bomb blast outside the Youth Congress office in the capital in which nine people were killed, was...
More »Between life and death, the crucial difference -V Venkatesan
-The Hindu Had the court known that Pratibha Patil was not told of the dissent in the Bhullar case, the outcome of his appeal might have been similar to that of Das's plea The Supreme Court, in the course of just one month, has rendered two judgments that appear to be contradictory. As both the judgments have been rendered by the same Bench, comprising two judges, they need to be studied...
More »Higher courts can award 30-year jail while commuting death sentence, and limit state’s remission power-J Venkatesan
-The Hindu This, however, would not apply when the accused is given life sentence The higher judiciary can impose 20, 25 or 30 years' sentence in a murder case while commuting the death penalty of the accused to life imprisonment in cases which do not fall into the ‘rarest of rare' category. It can also limit the remission power of the State government, a Bench of Justices P. Sathasivam and M.Y. Eqbal,...
More »The crisis in our community-Nilanjana S Roy
-The Hindu "Stopping rape" isn't possible unless we change the way we tackle and think about ordinary violence Some images stay branded on your mind. The brutality visited on three young girls, before their bodies were found in a well; the pain of a five-year-old whose rapist used candles and an oil bottle to violate her further; the anger of the Dalit rape survivor in Uttar Pradesh who was told by a...
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