NEW DELHI: Grazing goats on a sizzling summer day of 2009, a thirsty 10-year-old Dalit girl Shanti (name changed) rushed to a tubewell to quench her thirst. That was the last anyone saw her alive. Later, a tubewell operator was accused of raping & murdering her. Her father found her body from a haystack and…
NEW DELHI: Admitting that “injustice has been inflicted” by all courts, including itself, in rejecting the juvenility plea of a death convict who had to spent 25 years in jail, Supreme Court on Wednesday directed his release from prison forthwith by holding that he was just 14 years old at the time of committing the…
Iwao Hakamada, left, is helped by a supporter as he goes for a walk in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture, central Japan. (Picture credit: AP) Iwao Hakamata, world’s longest-serving death row prisoner, was acquitted on Thursday, five decades after being wrongfully convicted of murdering four of a family in 1968, reported CNN.The 88-year-old spent 46 years behind…
