Nirbhaya case: Death penalty served after 7 years<\/b><\/h2>\nThe courts applied the death penalty to the rapists in the notable 2012 Nirbhaya case (the Delhi gang rape case), sparking protests and igniting conversations about the death sentence for rape across the country.<\/p>\n
The Indian Penal Code (IPC) permits the death sentence under Section 376A (for inflicting death or a vegetative state of the victim) or Section 376E (for repeat offenders) in situations of rape that results in death or extreme violence.<\/span><\/p>\n
Nevertheless, even with these clauses, rape trials seldom end in the death penalty; instead, life in prison is the norm.<\/span><\/p>\n
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A Kolkata court gave Rajib Ghosh a death sentence for raping and attempting to kill a seven-month-old child. Judge Indrila Mukhopadhyay Mitra said , reading out the verdict, \u201cThis is a rarest of rare cases. There cannot be any other punishment that the court can think of.\u201d On Tuesday, a special POCSO court in Kolkata […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[483,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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