A convict serving death sentence in a 2016 case of rape and murder of a minor girl at Kopardi in Maharashtra was found hanging in his cell at the Yerwada Central Jail in Pune on Sunday morning, police said.
A death-row convict whose mercy petition has been disposed of by the president will have no right to appeal in a court against the decision when the new Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita Bill (BNSS), 2023 becomes law.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted a death row prisoner convicted in the murder of his two brothers and own son. This verdict was delivered by a three-judge bench of Justices BR Gavai, PS.
In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to commute the death sentence of Babbar Khalsa terrorist Balwant Singh Rajoana to life imprisonment on the ground of long pendency.