Death Penalty For Rapists

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said on Saturday that his government would make a provision for the death penalty for religious conversion of girls, along the lines of punishment for rape of minors. Yadav made the announcement at a programme organised here to mark International Women's Day. The government is very strict against those who rape innocent daughters. A provision for the death penalty has been made in this regard. Besides this, a provision for capital punishment will also be made in the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act for religious conversion, he said. Yadav said the state won't spare those behind illegal conversions. The government has resolved that it will deal strictly with such evil practices and wrongdoings, he said. Later, Yadav said on X that the Madhya Pradesh government is dedicated to the protection and self-respect of daughters. After (provision for) death penalty for those who rape (our) daughters, now provision for capital punishment will

Amid the raging debate over a Kolkata court sentencing R G Kar hospital rape-murder convict Sanjay Roy to life imprisonment till death, legal luminaries are unequivocal in their stand against awarding capital punishment to anyone. The Sealdah sessions court had on January 20 held Roy guilty of the rape and murder of an on-duty medic at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, and sentenced him to life imprisonment till the end of his natural life. Holding that death penalty is undemocratic and irreversible, former Supreme Court judge Ashok Ganguly said such a punishment should, therefore, not be continued in a free, democratic country. Asserting that the demand for capital punishment to Roy is not just, he said in more than 150 countries across the world, there is no death penalty. He said that in Europe, there is no country where death penalty is allowed, and in America, too, there are various states where capital punishment is not awarded. "We always cry for death pena

RG Kar rape-murder: Nationwide protests had erupted after a trainee docto was found dead in the hospital's seminar room on August 9

She also recalled the previous instance, where the court handed capital punishment to the convict in Joynagar in 62 days

The new Bill to be tabled in the Bengal Assembly today proposes the death penalty for individuals convicted of rape resulting in death or a vegetative state.

Sixteen convicts have been executed in the country in the past three decades, including Yakub Memon, Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab.

The bench said pendency of proceedings, initiated by the convicts or involving them at various fora is untenable in law as a ground for staying execution

Mukesh Kumar Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Kumar Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar (31) were scheduled to be hanged on February 1 at 6 am

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath assured the grieving family of speedy justice, saying a fast track court would decide the case and all the accused persons were arrested

The ordinance comes against the backdrop of the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir