-The Hindu Haryana's Sonia, daughter of Relu Ram Punia, former Haryana MLA, might become the first woman in India's history to be hanged as President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected her mercy petition. Government sources say the President has also rejected mercy petitions of at least six other death convicts. Sonia was convicted along with her husband Sanjeev in 2007 of killing eight members of her family, including her father, over a property dispute...
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CBI arrests ex-Gujarat ACP in Ishrat fake encounter case
-The Hindu The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested former Gujarat Assistant Commissioner of Police N.K. Amin in connection with the fake encounter killing of Mumbai college girl Ishrat Jahan and three others. Amin was recently freed on bail in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case by the Bombay High Court on health grounds. On Thursday, he was arrested from the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad where he was undergoing treatment. Ishrat...
More »Bihar woman avenges crime, burns down ‘rapist’ -Avinash Kumar and Mukesh Kr Mishra
-The Hindustan Times A middle-aged man was burnt to death after he was set on fire by a woman whom he had allegedly raped in her own house earlier during the night. The incident took place in the woman's home at Sweetha village, two kilometres south of the Parsa Bazar police station, in Phulwarisharif block of Patna district, early Tuesday. The police in Patna described the incident as "an act of revenge' on...
More »Mercy denied, Haryana rape convict will hang next week
-The Indian Express Sonepat: Dharampal, the Haryana rape convict who was released on parole and went on to Murder five members of the victim's family, is set to be hanged next week. President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected his mercy petition, pending for 14 years. Initially accused of raping a girl in Sonepat in 1991, Dharampal was given a 10-year jail sentence in 1993. He had allegedly threatened the girl against deposing in...
More »West Bengal student leader dies in police custody; SFI alleges Murder
-The Times of India KOLKATA: A 22-year-old post graduate student and leader of CPM's students' wing SFI, died of injuries sustained in police custody, prompting the Left Front to demand a judicial probe on Tuesday while chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her senior cabinet colleagues attended the IPL inauguration ceremony barely a few km away. Police claimed SFI state committee member Sudipto Gupta's death was an accident while the victim's kin alleged...
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