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Where will Dhananjoy be hanged?

August 12, 2004 21:21 IST

A police van leaves Kolkata's [ Images ] Alipore Jail where Dhananjoy Chatterjee will be hanged till death at 4.30 am on Saturday, August 14, 2004.

Dhananjoy Chatterjee was sentenced to death for raping and murdering 14-year-old Hetal Parekh in Kolkata in 1990.

The execution will be India's [ Images ] first in 15 years. The Supreme Court had rejected Chatterjee's last-gasp appeal to escape the gallows.  

Earlier, President A P J Abdul Kalam [ Images ] had rejected Dhananjoy's mercy petition

Photo: Deshkalyan Chowdhury/AFP/Getty Images

 

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