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Gangster Bannanje Raja was convicted for the 2013 murder of businessman R N Nayak in Karwar, Karnataka. The prosecution relied on forensic voice matching evidence to link the accused to the crime.
Sooraj Kumar was convicted by a trial court for the murder of his wife, Uthra, using a cobra to bite her while she slept. While the trial court sentenced him to life imprisonment as reported on 16 October 2021, the Kerala High Court admitted his appeal challenging the conviction and sentence on 4 January 2022.
A special POCSO court in Shimla convicted Anil Kumar alias Neelu Charani for the rape and murder of a minor girl in Kotkhai. On 19 June 2021, the court sentenced him to life imprisonment until death for the crimes.
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 a 2012 attempt-to-murder and extortion case, gangster Chhota Rajan and five others were accused of firing at Mumbai hotelier B R Shetty. On 20 August 2019, a special MCOCA court in Mumbai convicted all six individuals and sentenced them to eight years of imprisonment.
The case involves the conviction of two men for the 2007 rape and murder of a BPO employee in Pune. The state government and Union of India contested claims of inordinate delay in the execution of the death penalty before the Bombay High Court.
In the Kathua case concerning the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl, the District and Sessions Court convicted six of the seven accused on 10 June 2019. On the same date, three of the convicted individuals were sentenced to life imprisonment, while the other three were sentenced to five years of imprisonment.
Seven individuals were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of two cousins, Gaurav and Sachin, in Kawal village. The killings occurred on August 27, 2013, and were described as a catalyst for the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal riots.
Ankur Padia was accused of the abduction and murder of a child named Rudraksh. A trial court upheld the death sentence previously awarded to the accused.
This case concerns the death of Udayakumar, who died in police custody at the Fort Police Station in Thiruvananthapuram in 2005. The trial court convicted two police officers for his murder and sentenced them to life imprisonment.
The CBI prosecuted gangster Chhota Rajan and others for the June 2011 murder of Mumbai journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. On 2 May 2018, a special MCOCA court in Mumbai convicted Rajan and eight others for the crime, while former journalist Jigna Vora was acquitted.
The Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of four convicts involved in the 2012 gangrape and murder of a woman in Delhi. The court categorized the incident as a 'rarest of rare' case.
Govindachamy was accused and convicted for the 2011 rape and murder of 23-year-old Soumya. The Supreme Court of India commuted his previously awarded death sentence to 14 years of imprisonment.
In January 2013, a college student was gang-raped and murdered in Kamduni, West Bengal, leading to the trial of six individuals. On 30 January 2016, a Kolkata court convicted the six defendants, sentencing three to death and three to life imprisonment. The court categorized the crime as the rarest of rare cases.
A man was sentenced to double death and double life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a two-year-old girl. This was reported as the first sentencing under the amended Section 376A of the IPC.
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