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.
The convict, driven by unrequited obsession, abducted the child, doused him in petrol, and set him ablaze to exact revenge against the boy's mother.
Additional Sessions Judge (First) Pawan Kumar Sharma on Friday sentenced two convicts to death for the murder of the woman along with her one son and two daughters. They were declared guilty two days ago.
A court here on Thursday handed death sentence to a person for killing his wife and seriously injuring 6-year-old daughter by slitting her throat following a dispute with his spouse over monetary issues.
“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.
A court in Uttar Pradesh's Aurraiya district has awarded the death sentence to a man who was convicted for raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl earlier this year.
Balwant Singh Rajoana is a convict in the case of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh assassination.
The convict, a Tamil Nadu man, Sundar alias Sundararajan, had kidnapped and murdered a seven-year-old boy in 2009 following the inability of the victims’ parents to meet the demand of the ransom of Rs 5 lakh.
