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Pakistan army chief ‘analysing’ Kulbhushan Jadhav evidence

A Pakistan Army spokesperson says chief Qamar Javed Bajwa will decide on Kulbhushan Jadhav's mercy petition against the death sentence on merit

1 min read16 Jul 2017
Politics

Kulbhushan Jadhav files mercy petition with Pakistan army chief

Pakistan Army releases 'second confessional video' in which Kulbhushan Jadhav can be seen 'accepting his acts of terrorism and espionage'

1 min read22 Jun 2017
Politics

SC to hear last-minute plea to stay Yakub Memon hanging

President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his fresh mercy petition on Wednesday night after Supreme Court had earlier in the day cleared all legal hurdles

1 min read30 Jul 2015
Politics

Yakub Memon set to hang as President rejects second mercy petition

Supreme Court also dismisses curative petition filed by the 1993 Bombay blast convict against a death warrant

2 min read29 Jul 2015
Politics

SC to decide whether Yakub Memon death warrant illegal

Memon's lawyer claims correct procedure was not adopted by the apex court in dealing with his curative petition on 21 July

1 min read28 Jul 2015
Politics

Yakub Memon case: Death penalty in India, by the numbers

Some numbers that explain death penalty in India

3 min read27 Jul 2015
Politics

Nithari killings: HC commutes Surender Koli’s death sentence

Allahabad high court commutes Koli's death sentence on the ground of 'inordinate delay' in deciding his mercy petition

2 min read28 Jan 2015
Politics

President rejects mercy petitions of Surendra Koli, five others

Surendra Koli had brutally killed children in the Nithari locality of Noida

1 min read20 Jul 2014
Politics

Rajiv Gandhi assassination: SC refuses to review verdict granting life to convicts

The apex court had on 18 February commuted the death sentence of the convicts on the ground of delay in deciding their mercy plea by the Centre

1 min read1 Apr 2014
Politics

Mercy petitions can’t be kept pending for too long: CJI

CJI says as per Article 21 of the Constitution, even a death row convict is entitled to protection

1 min read8 Feb 2014
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