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    If India only executes notorious inmates, then they need to start doing people like Mohan Kumar
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    It seems to me India executes for the heads-on-spikes effect. Look for a few more when recession kicks in.

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    I’m glad to see these POS executed this was an especially horrific murder that deserved such punishment may the victim RIP

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    Man sentenced to death for rape and murder of minor girl

    Wife of the accused urges court not to let him free

    The Special POCSO Act Court on Tuesday awarded death penalty to an accused, Barlapudi Pentaiah, 43, alias Aaya, who raped and murdered an 8-year-old girl in Bhavanipuram area.

    The accused, a daily wage labourer, committed the crime when the girl, who was his neighbour, came to his house to watch television. She was studying in second standard in a private school.

    According to Bhavanipuram CI D.K.N. Mohan Reddy, the accused committed the crime when he was alone at home on November 10, 2019. The accused, after committing the offence, smothered her to death when she cried in pain. Later, he packed the body in a polythene bag and concealed it at his house.

    Meanwhile, the girl’s family members lodged a ‘missing’ complaint with the police. The dog squad and clues team which were pressed into service zeroed in on the accused and the police arrested him later.

    Wife’s statement

    Pentaiah’s wife, Sunitha, who was present at the hearing, urged the judge not to let her husband free and award maximum punishment for brutally killing the girl, the police said.

    The Bhavanipuram police registered a case against the accused under Section 376 (rape), 302 (murder) and Section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, said West Zone Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) K. Sudhakar, who monitored the investigation of the sensational case.

    Earlier convicted

    The accused was earlier convicted for one year imprisonment in an attempt to rape case of a minor girl in G Konduru mandal in Krishna district.

    “The accused is in Rajamahendravaram Central Prison. The court awarded death penalty in the murder case and imprisonment till death in the rape case,” Mr. Mohan Reddy said.

    (source: The Hindu)
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    UP woman who axed family to death likely to become India’s first female to be executed

    By BISMEE TASKIN
    The Print

    Shabnam Ali, a death row convict in Uttar Pradesh, is on course to become Independent India’s first woman to be executed.

    Shabnam is likely to be hanged at Uttar Pradesh’ Mathura jail — the only prison with a separate execution room for women convicts in the country.

    However, the death warrant consisting of the date and time of the hanging is yet to be issued by an Amroha sessions court. Senior prison officials of Uttar Pradesh say they have reminded the court on at least two occasions.

    The Supreme Court had upheld Shabnam’s death sentence in January last year.

    She and her lover Saleem had been convicted of killing seven members of her family with an axe, after sedating them, including her 10-month old nephew on the intervening night of 14-15 April, 2008.

    Saleem is also on death row and currently lodged at the Naini Central Jail in Prayagraj.

    Awaiting death warrant

    According to a senior UP prison official, Shabnam has exhausted her legal remedies, including late President Pranab Mukherjee rejecting her mercy plea in August 2016 and the Supreme Court dismissing her review petition and upholding the death penalty.

    She has exhausted her pleas. We had sent the apex court’s rejection order to the concerned sessions court (Amroha) immediately, but her warrant hasn’t come,” the officer said.

    “The Rampur jail superintendent had written to the Amroha sessions court on 6 March 2020 after the top court rejected her review petition asking for a death warrant in Shabnam’s case. The jail superintendent again sent a reminder to the sessions court on 28 January 2021. Normally, jail superintendents don’t write to the sessions courts, it is not part of protocol, instead the lower courts are supposed to take cognisance of the top court’s order and issue the death warrant.”

    Another senior jail official said, “There is some news about Shabnam’s file moving in the sessions courts now after the January reminder for the death warrant but officially we are yet to be notified about it.”

    ThePrint reached Shabnam’s lawyer Shreya Rastogi, who refused to delve into details of the case. “We cannot comment at this stage,” Rastogi said.

    Legal expert Anup Surendranath, however, said Shabnam still has legal remedies left. “The death warrant cannot be used unless Shabnam has exhausted all her legal remedies. Shabnam still has some of them left, including filing another review petition,” said Surendranath, who is executive director of Project 39A (criminal justice centre), at NLU Delhi.

    “She can also file a curative petition on ground of errors in judgment or if the petitioner claims that he or she wasn’t heard,” he added. “In case a death warrant is issued, that can also be challenged in the top court.”

    Mathura prison readies for execution

    Authorities at the Mathura prison, however, are already preparing for the execution.

    The onus of carrying out the capital punishment has fallen on Pawan Kumar, a fourth generation executioner, who was the hangman for the Nirbhaya rapists in Tihar jail last year.

    He has already visited the Mathura jail’s execution room to take stock of the preparations. “The stage is set for her hanging,” Kumar told ThePrint. “The rope has been ordered from Buxar, Bihar, and I am just waiting for the date. I have gone to the Mathura jail to check the condition of the execution room — the lever and the ropes so that everything is in order.”

    Kumar, who is posted at Meerut jail, told ThePrint that the only difference between the execution of a male and a female convict, is the “different execution rooms”.

    The Mathura prison, built in 1870, is the only one in India with an execution room for women.

    The only mention of this room in India can be found in the UP Jail Manual, 1956, which lays down rules for hanging women on death row, while also stating that only women can be hanged here.

    However the execution rooms for both men and women remain similar.

    Crime that led to capital punishment

    Shabnam, along with Saleem, has been convicted for the murder of seven of her relatives.

    She allegedly sedated the victims — her father Shaukat Ali, 55, mother Hashmi, 50, elder brother Anees, 35, and wife Anjum, 25, younger brother Rashid, 22, and cousin Rabia, 14 before killing them. She also allegedly throttled her 10-month old nephew (Anees’s son).

    The two allegedly carried out the murders as her family objected to their relationship, primarily over their educational qualifications.

    Shabnam, native of Amroha in Western Uttar Pradesh, is a double postgraduate in English and Geography. Saleem is a Class VI dropout.

    According to the prosecution, on the night of 14 April 2008, Saleem had come to Shabnam’s house at Bawankhedi village and slit the throats of her kin with an axe as Shabnam held their hair.

    Shabnam was seven weeks pregnant at the time of arrest, five days after the murder. Her son Taj, 12 years of age now, now stays with his foster parents Usman, a journalist, and his wife Suhina.

    Jail manual mandates that a woman inmate cannot keep her children after they turn six years of age.

    “She was shifted to Rampur jail only a year back from Moradabad jail,” the first senior prison official quoted above said. “She is normal and is quiet. It appears she is grateful that her son will have a good and normal life. But like all death row convicts, Shabnam too thinks that somehow her sentence will be commuted”.

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    India prepares to execute Shabnam Ali, first woman since independence

    Prison authorities in India’s Uttar Pradesh state have begun preparations to hang a female inmate who has been on death row for 11 years, in what would be the first execution of a woman since the country’s independence from the British in 1947. Shabnam Ali, 38, was sentenced to death for killing seven members of her own family in April 2008. A court found her guilty of carrying out the killings with her lover, Saleem – a high school dropout who worked as a day labourer. The two were in a relationship and wanted to get married but Shabnam’s family of landholders was against it. So the pair drugged Shabnam’s father, mother, two brothers and their wives before hacking them to death with an axe at their home in Amroha, about 380km from the state capital of Lucknow, the court heard.

    The former primary schoolteacher, who was pregnant with Saleem’s child at the time, then strangled her 10-month-old nephew. A lower court in Amroha first issued the death penalty to the pair in 2010, with the state’s high court in Allahabad later upholding the sentence. An appeal to India’s Supreme Court failed in 2015, and in 2016 then-president Pranab Mukherjee rejected Shabnam’s “mercy petition”. Last January, the top court also dismissed her plea for a review of that rejection.

    This week, local media quoted prison authorities from the district of Mathura, which is the only facility in the country tasked with handling the execution of female convicts, as saying that they were preparing to execute Shabnam. However, the date of the hanging was not confirmed as the Amroha court had not issued her death warrant.

    We have placed an order for the rope and are just waiting for a fresh death warrant to execute her by hanging,” a senior Mathura jail official said.

    Local media also reported that Pawan Jallad, a prolific hangman who is said to receive a monthly salary of 7,500 rupees (US$103.50) for his services, had inspected the 150-year-old facility which is in a dilapidated state due to decades of disuse, as authorities are working on refurbishing the gallows. Jallad hanged the killers convicted of the gang rape and murder of a medical student in New Delhi in 2012, a case that outraged Indians and triggered mass protests. Shabnam’s 12-year-old son with Saleem, named Taj, has made a last-ditch attempt to save his mother from the noose. The child, born in jail and now living with his foster parents, appealed to President Ram Nath Kovind to review the mercy petition and pardon Shabnam.

    Supreme Court lawyer Sarthak Chaturvedi told The Times of India newspaper that Shabnam still had some options of legal recourse open to her. “Shabnam could still seek another judicial review of the petition in the Supreme Court. She could also file a curative petition,” he said.

    Shabnam’s uncle told local media that he would not accept his niece’s body after her execution.

    “We were not at home when the carnage took place. When we went there at around 2am, there was blood all around and the bodies were cut up. The crime was unpardonable,” he said. Since India’s independence in 1947, most executions have been carried out in Uttar Pradesh. The country’s most populous state has executed a total of 354 people, with the next highest number being Haryana with 90, and Madhya Pradesh with 73 executions, according to statistics from the National Law University in Delhi.

    The figures show that in 2018 alone, India’s courts handed out 162 death sentences – the most in nearly two decades.

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    Man gets death penalty for rape, murder

    A local court here awarded death penalty to a man for raping and killing an 18-month-old girl.

    The court also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on the convict.

    Additional District and Sessions Judge Chandra Vijay Shrinet on Monday held Guddu, alias Gullu, guilty of the crime and awarded death sentence.

    District Government Advocate Ramchandra Rajput on Tuesday said the girl was raped and murdered in 2014. After killing her, the victim threw the body in a village pond.

    (source: outlookindia.com)

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    "lakh" = 100,000 in the Indian numbering system.

    One rupee = 1.4 US¢

    So the fine = US$ 2,717.52.

    (Just in case someone wondered.)
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    Delhi's law and order situation in 'serious turmoil': Kejriwal

    • The CM was speaking about the murder of an eight-year-old girl and stabbing of a teenaged boy
    • Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia met the family of the deceased girl in Khichripur


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    Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said Delhi's law and order situation is in "serious turmoil" citing the recent murder of an eight-year-old girl and stabbing of a teenaged boy, and requested the Union home minister under whom the city police function for appropriate action.

    Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia met the family of the deceased girl in Khichripur. He assured the family the case would be tried in a fast-track court and that the best lawyers would be engaged to ensure the death penalty to the guilty.

    https://www.livemint.com/news/india/...434701485.html

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    Acquitted in 8 FIRs, rearrested in ninth similar FIR in Jaipur blast case: Rajasthan HC expresses surprise; grants bail to accused

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    The Rajasthan High Court recently granted bail to Shahbaz Ahmad, an undertrial in the Jaipur bomb blast case, who after spending 12 years in jail, was acquitted in eight FIRs but was re-arrested in a ninth FIR in the same case.

    The court expressed surprise that Ahmad, who had been languishing in jail for 12 years and was ultimately found not guilty in all eight FIRs, was not only not freed, but was, instead, arrested in a ninth FIR which was similar to the eight FIRs in which he was acquitted.

    Justice Pradeep Bhandari asked Advocate General why Shahbaz had not been arrested for twelve years when he was in judicial custody? The Advocate General expressed ignorance.

    The judge, thus, allowed Shahbaz’s bail application after taking note of the fact that the present FIR was akin to the eight FIRs in which the petitioner had been found not guilty.

    The petitioner’s counsel contended that as many as nine FIRs were lodged on 13.05.2008, with regard to the bomb blast which took place at Jaipur. Police filed chargesheets in eight cases against five accused persons. In all eight cases, of the five, four persons were given the death penalty and only Shahbaz was acquitted.

    It was also contended that after his acquittal, the petitioner was not released and when he inquired from the jail authorities, was informed that there were two more cases still pending against him.

    The petitioner was granted bail in one of the two cases on 08.01.2021 by the apex court but was arrested from jail in the present FIR on 25.12.2019

    The petitioner added that all the nine FIRs were from the year 2008, relating to the bomb blast. Chargesheets were filed in only eight cases and in all eight, the petitioner was acquitted.

    “There is no reason for arresting the petitioner after twelve years of lodging of the FIR. when the allegations in all the FIRs. are same”, the petitioner contended.

    The Additional Advocate General appearing on behalf of the State did not dispute the facts placed before the court. He admitted that all nine FIRs pertained to the bomb blast and were similar.

    FIR No. 121/2008 was registered at Police Station Kotwali, Jaipur Metropolitan, Jaipur for offence under Sections 153 & 153-A of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sections 4, 5 & 6 of Explosive Substance Act and Sections 16A, 18 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

    Petitioner was represented by advocates Mujahid Ahmed and Nishant Vyas.

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