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“The Central Government may consider imposing punishment, such as, 'hanging' or 'death penalty', for corrupt practices or for demanding and accepting bribes, like in China, North Korea, Indonesia, Thailand and Morocco", the High Court bench said.

Navid Afkari was earlier sentenced to death for allegedly murdering a security guard during the anti-government protest in Iran in 2018

Serial killer Kamruzzaman Sarkar earned the tag of 'chain man' by entering houses posing as an official from electricity department

If the gory, gut-wrenching details of how Nirbhaya was subjected to fatal gang-rape do not ace the tests of rarest of the rare, inviting the maximum punishment of death penalty, what will?

Six men were accused of gang-raping and murdering the 23-year-old medical student, who came to be called Nirbhaya. Of the six, four were convicted, one was a juvenile, who got convicted by the juvenile justice board.

Nirbhaya was brutally raped, her intestines were ripped and she was shoved with an iron rod. It thus qualified as a "rarest of rare" crime.

Replying to the lawyer of the rapists of Nirbhaya, Justice Manmohan said, "We are close to the time where your client can meet God."

On March 5 this year, a trial court had issued the death warrant with March 20 as the date of the execution in Tihar jail.

Lawer of Nirbhaya convicts also accused the courts of being biased, as he said that courts already make decisions before hearing them

The twists and turns in the Nirbhaya case are far from over as three of the convicts have now approached the International Court of Justice seeking stay on execution.