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The Supreme Court Thursday reserved verdict on a plea seeking review of death penalty it awarded to a woman and her lover for killing her parents, two brothers and their wives and strangulating her 10-month-old nephew in Uttar Pradesh.

Mukesh Singh, one of the four men on death row in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, on Friday exhausted all his legal options with President Ram Nath Kovind rejecting his mercy plea and the Home Ministry sending it on to the Delhi government, officials said.

The special court on Friday sentenced the four terrorists to death in connection with the serial bomb blasts on May 13, 2008 in Parkota area. Earlier on Thursday, his sentence was debated. The public prosecutor considered it the rarest of the matter and demanded the execution of Mohammed Saif, Sarwar Azmi, Saifur Rahman and Mohammad Salman. 71 people died in these blasts which occurred eleven and a half years ago, while 185 were injured.

16 convicted in Nusrat Jahan Rafi’s Murder in Bangladesh The case of murder of a student has been solved by a southern court in Bangladesh...