DEATH PENALTY TOPIC: Polity Context- The judgment by a three-judge Bench led by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar came in the rape and murder of a seven-year-old. The court commuted the death penalty of the convict to life imprisonment. Concept- Justice Dinesh Maheshwari, who authored the judgment, referred to the evolution of the principles of […]

    DEATH PENALTY Subject : Polity Context : Rarest of rare case’: IM terrorist Ariz Khan gets death penalty in Batla House encounter case. Concept : Death Penalty in the Indian Context Prior to the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act (Cr PC) of 1955, the death penalty was the rule and life imprisonment an exception […]