Gujarat courts sentenced 50 people to death this year till Aug : Reports

Gujarat has seen a substantial increase in trial courts imposing capital penalty, with 50 persons sentenced to death this year till August, compared to 46 between 2006 and 2021, as per data available with courts in the state.In February 2022, a special court sentenced to death 38 convicts in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial explosion case , significantly increasing the number of persons sentenced to death by trial courts in the state this year.In a series of bombs that blasted through Ahmedabad in 2008, 56 people were killed and more than 200 were injured. In addition to this case, trial courts in several cities sentenced prisoners to death in cases of rape and murder of minors reported under the Protection of Children for Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act. Only in one of these cases, at a court […]