Indian
Express: Pune: Thursday, October 25, 2012.
A total of 29
Indians have been sentenced to death for various criminal offences during the
past five years in various countries, the External Affairs Ministry has said in
response to an RTI query.
In reply to
an RTI query by activist Om Prakash Sharma, the MEA report said 21 Indians had
been awarded death sentence in the UAE, six in Kuwait and one each in Indonesia
and Iran.
Twenty-seven
of those sentenced to death have been convicted of murder along with other
offences like abduction, burning, hiding body, theft, adultery and
intoxication. The remaining two were awarded capital punishment for offences
punishable under the Narcotics Act and Drugs Act.
In all,
10,647 Indians had been convicted in various countries of criminal offences and
imprisoned, including the 29 death penalties.
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