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The first challenge to the capital punishment in India came during the 1973 case of Jagmohan Singh v. State of U.P, October 1972. [ 58 ] The judgment came before the CrPC was re-enacted in 1973 , whereby the death sentence constituted an exceptional sentence. [ 59 ]
The number of people executed in India since independence in 1947 is a matter of dispute; official government statistics claim that only 57 people had been executed since independence. However, available information from other sources indicates that the official government figures are false, and the actual number of executions in India may run ...
The case was the first resulting in the conviction of khap panchayats [25] [41] [51] and the first capital punishment verdict in an honour killing case in India. [52] [53] The Indian media and legal experts hailed it as a "landmark judgement", a victory over these infamous assemblies, which acted for years with impunity as parallel judicial ...
The support and sentencing of capital punishment has been growing in India in the 2010s [120] due to anger over several recent brutal cases of rape, even though actual executions are comparatively rare. [120]
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice. The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
On 6 March 2019, the Supreme Court of India acquitted all the six death-row convicts and proclaimed them innocent. [3] [4] In March 2023, the Supreme Court of India freed Niranaram Chetanram Chaudhary after he spent 28 years, six months and 23 days in custody, and was freed from Nagpur jail.
Capital punishment Chandini was a five-year-old student who migrated from the state of Bihar to the state of Kerala in India. [ 1 ] She lived with her parents in a rented flat in Choornikkara village , Aluva and was a class one student at the Thaikkattukara UP school.
Dhananjoy Chatterjee (14 August 1965 – 14 August 2004) was the first person who was judicially executed in India in the 21st century for murder. The execution by hanging took place in Alipore Jail, Kolkata, on 14 August 2004.