A division bench of the Telangana High Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence awarded to five convicts in the 2013 Dilsukhnagar twin blasts case, including Yasin Bhatkal.
A local court sentenced three convicts to death in a 44-year-old case of mass murder of 24 Dalits in Dihuli village of Jasrana, Firozabad.
A special court in Nalgonda on Monday awarded capital punishment to the hired killer Subhash Sharma, convicted in the sensational case of the honour killing of Dalit youth at the Miryalaguda town of Telangana on 14 September 2018.
The Orissa High Court exercising judicial restraint and playing a balancing role commuted the death sentence awarded to nine condemned convicts for perpetrating a witchcraft-related triple murder more than eight years back to imprisonment for the rest of their life.
Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death in Yemen, is a trained nurse and has worked in private hospitals in Yemen for a few years. She was awarded a life sentence in 2020 after being convicted of killing one Talal Abdo Mahdi, who she accused of fraud and abuse, in 2017.
It is for the first time in Kerala that so many people have been sentenced to death in a single case.
Srinivasan, an OBC wing leader of the BJP, was brutally killed in front of his mother, wife and daughter in Alappuzha district in December 2021.
Bangladeshi native Hilaluddin and Nafikul Biswas, a resident of West Bengal, were declared guilty by Additional Sessions Judge Rajesh Kumar Rai on December 22.
“We have noted the verdict today of the Court of Appeal of Qatar in the Dahra Global case, in which the sentences have been reduced,” the MEA said in a statement.
Reacting to their death sentence, the external affairs ministry had earlier expressed its "deep shock" and said that it was exploring all the legal options to challenge the Qatar court verdict.
