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• HC upholds death penalty clause for repeat rape offenders (Maharashtra)

  15 December 2025, by Abolish Death Penalty India
  Updated: Jun 04, 2019 01:29 ISTThe Bombay High Court amended section of the Indian Penal Code under which repeat offenders in rape cases can be awarded life imprisonment or death penalty. The Bombay High Court (HC) on Monday upheld constitutional validity of Section 376E of the Indian Penal Code (…)

• Alwar man sentenced to death for rape, murder of 5-year-old (Rajasthan)

  15 December 2025, by Abolish Death Penalty India
  Updated: Jun 12, 2019 19:08 IST A court in Rajasthan’s Alwar sentenced a man to death on Tuesday for raping a 5-year-old and killing the girl by crushing her head with stone. Public prosecutor Vinod Sharma said special judge of POSCO court Ajay Sharma called it a “rarest of the rare” crime and (…)

• Mumbai HC: Convicts in Jyoti Chaudhary rape, murder case challenge rejection of mercy plea

  15 December 2025, by Abolish Death Penalty India
  15 June 2019, 20:36 IST 22-year-old Jyoti Chaudhary was raped and murder by her company's cab driver and his friend in 2007. Two convicts in Jyoti Chaudhary rape and murder case moved the Bombay High Court on Saturday challenging the rejection of their mercy plea by the President. The execution (…)

• Rohtak gangrape-murder: Supreme Court stays death sentence

  15 December 2025, by Abolish Death Penalty India
  “Leave granted. The execution of death sentence is stayed,” ordered a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta while deciding to hear their plea against the conviction. By: Express News ServiceNew Dellhi | July 5, 2019 02:17 AM IST The Punjab and Haryana High Court had in (…)

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