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In 1988, Saibanna was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death. On 11 August 2023, the Karnataka High Court commuted his sentence to life imprisonment citing the delay in his mercy petition and the impact of solitary confinement. Saibanna was released from Bengaluru prison on 5 July 2026 after serving 37 years in custody due to good conduct.
On 29 June 2026, a Pune POCSO court sentenced 65-year-old Bhimrao Kamble to death for the rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in Nasrapur. Characterizing the crime as rarest of the rare, the court noted that even the death penalty was inadequate following a trial based on a 1,100-page chargesheet filed on 16 May 2026.
Dashwanth was previously sentenced to death for the 2017 rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl in Mugalivakkam. The Supreme Court of India set aside his conviction and acquitted him on 8 October 2025. As reported on 28 May 2026, the Tamil Nadu government stated its intention to file a curative petition against this acquittal.
The sessions court initially sentenced seven individuals to death and two to life imprisonment for the murder of neurologist Dr. SD Subbiah. Following an acquittal of all accused by the Madras High Court in June 2024, the Supreme Court set aside the acquittals on 19 May 2026. The Supreme Court restored the convictions of the seven individuals while modifying their sentencing to life imprisonment, with two others permitted to seek pardon.
The Pune Sessions Court sentenced a 24-year-old man to death for the rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in Maval Taluka as reported on 23 March 2024. The Bombay High Court set aside the death sentence and ordered a fresh trial on 16 March 2026.
The Supreme Court overturned its own 2017 order that had upheld the death sentence of Vasanta Sampat Dupare, who was convicted for the rape and murder of a four-year-old girl. The court allowed an Article 32 petition challenging the sentence on the grounds of procedural safeguards.
The Supreme Court acquitted two individuals, including one who was on death row, in connection with the 2014 rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in Uttarakhand. The court cited a broken chain of circumstantial evidence as the basis for the acquittal.
In September 2025, the Supreme Court of India acquitted two individuals, including a death row convict, in the 2015 rape and murder case of a seven-year-old girl in Uttarakhand. The court ruled that the chain of circumstantial evidence was incomplete, overturning the 2017 conviction delivered by the Uttarakhand High Court.
The Supreme Court originally commuted Mohd Firoz's death penalty in a rape and murder case to a 20-year prison term in a verdict delivered on 19 April 2022. On 23 August 2025, the Supreme Court delivered a fresh judgment regarding Mohd Firoz and others concerning charges under Section 392 of the Indian Penal Code related to robbery.
The Calcutta High Court commuted the death sentence of Suresh Paswan to a life term with no remission for 50 years. The convict was found guilty in 2019 of the 2013 rape and murder of a toddler in Kidderpore.
In the 2013 Sonai triple murder case, a Nashik sessions court sentenced six men to death in January 2018 for the murder of three Dalit men in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. Following a 2021 Supreme Court stay on the execution of the death penalty, the Supreme Court delivered its final judgment regarding the convicts' appeals on 10 February 2025.
Chandrabhan Sanap was originally convicted and sentenced to death by a trial court for the 2014 rape and murder of a woman in Mumbai, a decision upheld by the Bombay High Court in 2018. On 28 January 2025, the Supreme Court of India set aside this conviction and acquitted him, citing significant gaps in the prosecution's evidence.
The Supreme Court set aside the death penalty imposed on a convict for the 2016 sexual assault and murder of a four-year-old boy. The court commuted the sentence, citing procedural and legal considerations.
The Siliguri court in West Bengal convicted Md Abbas for the rape and murder of a minor girl in 2023. On 8 September 2024, the court sentenced the convict to death for these crimes.
Yusuf Alias Sonu was convicted for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Dehradun. Following a stay of his death sentence by the Supreme Court, the High Court of Uttarakhand issued a judgment on 2 May 2024, referring the criminal matter for confirmation.
B.A. Umesh alias Umesh Reddy is a serial killer convicted for rape and murder who has faced multiple legal challenges regarding his death sentence and solitary confinement. The Supreme Court of India ruled on 4 November 2022 that his decade-long solitary confinement was illegal due to the resulting mental trauma. Most recently, the Karnataka High Court rejected his petition concerning ongoing legal challenges to his conviction and sentencing as reported on 27 February 2024.
An Azamgarh court sentenced a man to death for the murder of three members of a family, including a four-month-old infant, following a sexual assault.
The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Shabnam, a teacher, and her partner Salim for the murder of seven members of her family in 2008 due to a property dispute and family opposition to their marriage.
In October 2020, the Warangal Sessions Court convicted Sanjay Kumar Yadav and sentenced him to death for the murder of nine migrant workers, a crime committed to conceal an initial murder. The trial concluded within 36 days of the commencement of hearings, and as reported on 11 December 2020, Yadav was also sentenced to life imprisonment in a separate sexual assault case.
In the 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder case, the Supreme Court of India upheld the death sentences of four convicts in May 2017. Following the exhaustion of all legal remedies, the four convicts were executed by hanging at Tihar Jail on 20 March 2020.
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