 | ‘Appeasement policy’ of AAP-led govt led to crime, says BJP MP Manoj Tiwari"The killer in the Shahbad Dairy murder case should be hanged as soon as possible." |
 | Kashmir parties object to NIA plea seeking death penalty to separatist Yasin MalikMalik was a pioneer of armed militancy in J&K but he and his party renounced militancy in 1994. After giving up violence, he held many hunger strikes. |
 | Delhi HC dismisses Vodafone Idea’s plea against Rs 2,000 crore penaltyAs per the reports, a division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad reserved its order on the matter for April 24 after hearing the parties. |
 | Capital term review, mitigation probe of death row convictsThe order is significant as it revisits, once again, the often ignored aspect of death penalty jurisprudence. |
 | Singapore executes Indian-origin man Tangaraju Suppiah for trafficking 1kg of cannabisThe execution took place despite a plea by the United Nations Human Rights Office for Singapore to "urgently reconsider" the hanging. |
 | SC imposes Rs 25,000 fine on petitioner asking justice for Veer Savarkar"The parties cannot walk into the Supreme Court with any pleading or with any prayer they want,” a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Ahsanuddin Amanullah said in their order. |
 | Delay in mercy plea decisions will 'frustrate' purpose of death sentence, says SCUnder Article 72 of the Constitution, the President has the power to grant pardon and decide on mercy petitions. |
 | Iran executions surge 75 per cent in 2022 in bid to 'spread fear'More than half of those executed after the start of the protests, and 44 percent of the 582 executions recorded in 2022, were on drug-related charges. |
 | Malaysia's parliament vote to axe mandatory death penaltyMalaysia has had a moratorium on executions since 2018, but courts have continued to send inmates to death row. |
 | Sebi bans 3 individuals from securities market for two years; fines Rs 90 lakhThe three individuals banned by the regulator -- Bijal Shah, Gopal Ritolia and Jatin Chawla -- have also been directed to pay the fine within 45 days. |
 | SC bid to explore better ways for death penalty than hanging, seeks dataA bench of Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha said a relook would be possible only after considering better data. |
 | Three railway ticket checkers collect over Rs 1 crore each in finesAccording to a press release, S Nanda Kumar, the deputy chief ticket inspector, collected Rs 1.55 crore in penalties from 27,787 cases of travelling without proper tickets and unbooked luggage. |
 | NIA court sentences seven ISIS members to death, one gets life termA special NIA court of Lucknow on Tuesday awarded death penalty to seven suspected Islamic State (ISIS) operatives and life term to one in connection with the Kanpur terror conspiracy case. |
 | 165 death sentences by trial courts in 2022, highest since 2000, says reportThe highest imposition of death sentences in 2022 was influenced by the sentencing of 38 persons to death in Ahmedabad in a bomb blast case, the report said. |
 | Gorakhnath temple attack case: IIT grad gets death penaltyAn IIT graduate, Abbasi had tried to forcibly enter the Gorakhnath Mutt premises of which Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is the head priest, on April 3, last year. |
 | Gorakhpur temple attack: ATS court hands death sentence to accused Ahmed Murtaza AbbasiAn Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) graduate, Abbasi had tried to forcibly enter the Gorakhnath Muthh premises of which UP CM Yogi Adityanath is head priest, on April 3, last year. |
 | DGCA fines Air India Rs 10 lakh for not reporting incidents of passenger misbehaviourThe DGCA had issued a show cause notice to the accountable manager and asked why enforcement action should not be taken against them for dereliction of their regulatory obligations. |
 | Setback for Google: NCLAT refuses stay on CCI penalty, orders 10 per cent depositOn October 20 last year, CCI slapped a penalty of Rs 1,337.76 crore on Google for anti-competitive practices in relation to Android mobile devices. |
 | Twitter to pay USD 150 million penalty over privacy of users' dataThe regulators allege Twitter violated a 2011 FTC order by deceiving users about how well it maintained and protected the privacy and security of their nonpublic contact information. |
 | Son of man on death row in Bahrain sends new drawing to F1 champion Lewis HamiltonThe 12-year-old is the son of Mohammed Ramadhan, a former member of Bahrain's security forces facing the death penalty. |
