Peoples hold national flags and shout slogans outside Tihar central prison where four men were sentenced to capital punishment in New Delhi
Photo by Jitender Gupta/Outlook
Peoples hold national flags and shout slogans outside Tihar central prison where four men were sentenced to capital punishment in New Delhi.
Photo by Jitender Gupta/Outlook
Policemen stand guard at the entrance of Tihar central prison where four men were sentenced to capital punishment in New Delhi.
Photo by Jitender Gupta/Outlook
People hold banner outside Tihar central prison in New Delhi. Four men were sentenced to capital punishment for the 2012 gang rape of a 23 year-old physiotherapy student on a movin...
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People gather outside Tihar jail during the execution of four men convicted of Nirbhaya rape and murder case, in New Delhi. Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) a...
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Nirbhaya's parents along with Advocate Jitendra Kumar Jha leave from Supreme Court, in New Delhi.
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Nirbhaya's mother leaves from Patiala House Court, in New Delhi.
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Nirbhaya rape and murder case victim's mother at the Patiala House Court, in New Delhi. The court issued fresh date for execution of death warrants for March 3 at 6 am for the four...
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Supporters of former Pakistani military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf protest a court's decision, in Lahore, Pakistan. The Pakistani court sentenced Musharraf to death in a treason c...
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Pakistani police officers stand guard outside Multan jail after a court's decision for a professor facing blasphemy case, in Multan, Pakistan. A Pakistani court on Saturday convict...
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Rahul Raj being taken away from a special CBI court to prison van after the court awarded death sentence to him for raping and murdering of a B.Tech student, in Ranchi.
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Govind Singhal, the main accused in the murder of Shweta Agarwal being taken out of court after being awarded death penalty, in Guwahati
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Bangladeshi security personnel stand guard in front of Kashimpur Central Jail where Mir Quasem Ali, a senior leader of the main Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami, is being held, in Ga...
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Gurdip Singh's wife Kulwinder Kaur crying over the death sentence awarded to her husband in Indonesia, in Nakodar in Jalandhar.
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Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, wearing a red jumpsuit that designates he has been sentenced to death, raises his hands inside a defendants cage in a makeshift courtroom ...
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Afghanistan's police officers take positions by nooses as they prepare to execute men at a jail in Kabul, Afghanistan.
File-AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini
One of the six nooses prepared for men sentenced to death at a jail in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan has hanged six men convicted of terrorism, signaling a tougher approach towar...
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Saffron Line
BJP-Sangh workers revel in Afzal’s execution
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Thousands of people move with an ambulance carrying the body of police officer Mumtaz Qadri, the convicted killer of a former governor, during funeral prayers, in Rawalpindi, Pakis...
The Delhi jail manual says if a death row convict develops an acute or serious (not chronic) physical illness, hanging will be postponed. The jail superintendent will take the medical opinion to determine the degree of physical disability
Capital punishment for rape leaves me more scared than before -- for self and society -- writes poet-playwright Annie Zaidi, after the Nirbhaya hanging.
From Afghanistan's decision to adopt Delhi government's 'happiness curriculum' in its schools to Tamil Nadu's farmer's learning classes on YouTube, read this and much more in this week's The Subcontinental Menu.
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