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• President rejects mercy plea of man (Maharashtra) convicted of rape, murder of two-year-old girl

  15 December 2025, by Abolish Death Penalty India
  This is the third mercy plea rejected by the President since she assumed office on July 25, 2022Updated - December 15, 2025 01:57 am IST - New Delhi President Droupadi Murmu has rejected the mercy petition of Ravi Ashok Ghumare, who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a two-year-old (…)

• ‘Offence was not pre-meditated’; Allahabad HC commutes death sentence to life imprisonment of man who raped and killed his 5-month-old cousin

  15 December 2025, by Abolish Death Penalty India
  The Court reiterated that though in a rape and murder case based on circumstantial evidence, the death penalty can be awarded in the ‘rarest of rare’, normally imprisonment for life without any remission may be awarded, unless a death sentence is inevitable.Published on November 21, 2025, By (…)

• Supreme Court Acquits Man in Rape–Robbery–Murder Case: “Suspicion, However Strong, Cannot Replace Proof” — Court Finds Missing Links in Circumstantial Chain

  15 December 2025, by Abolish Death Penalty India
  November 7, 2025 Court’s Decision The Supreme Court set aside the conviction and sentence imposed by the Trial Court and upheld by the Kerala High Court in a case involving allegations of house trespass, sexual assault, robbery, and murder of an elderly woman. This case rested entirely on (…)

• 82-year-old Kerala man gets death for killing son, family in 2022

  15 December 2025, by Abolish Death Penalty India
  31 October 2025 Krishnendu Mukherjee, Pinak Priya Bhattacharya & Riyan Ramanath V Hameed alias Chittapan An 82-year-old man named Hameed alias Chittappan was sentenced to death by the Additional Sessions Court in Idukki, Kerala, for the brutal murder of his son, daughter-in-law, and two (…)

• Kerala High Court Acquits Assam Migrant Labourer Sentenced To Death For Rape-Murder Of 60-Year-Old Woman

  15 December 2025, by Abolish Death Penalty India
  Post By 24law: November 4, 2025 Safiya Malik The High Court of Kerala, Division Bench of Justice A.K. Jayasankaran Nambiar and Justice Jobin Sebastian set aside the conviction and death sentence imposed on a migrant labourer accused of raping and murdering a 60-year-old woman at Puthenvelikkara, (…)

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