57 people were hanged in the history of Gujarat<\/p>\n
38 hanged for bomb blast, a big event in history<\/p>\n
Dilip Patel
\nAhmedabad, 8 July 2026
\nThe biggest hanging in the history of Gujarat took place in the Gujarat High Court on 9 July 2026. In February 2022, 38 people were sentenced to death in the Ahmedabad bomb blast case. 11 people were sentenced to life imprisonment. However, now the matter is likely to go to the country’s Supreme Court and then to the President. Therefore, it is not decided when or whether the hanging will actually take place.<\/p>\n
Earlier, out of 77 accused, 49 were convicted and 28 were acquitted.<\/p>\n
On July 26, 2008, there were 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad in 70 minutes. In which 56 people died. Also 200 people were injured.<\/p>\n
Indian Mujahideen and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami extremist organizations have claimed responsibility for the blast.<\/p>\n
The accused were lodged in Sabarmati jail, from where they tried to escape by digging a tunnel. But were caught.<\/p>\n
Reason for Godhra incident
\nThe blast was planned in the wake of the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat. SIMI members believed that the minority community had suffered huge losses in the riots that broke out across Gujarat after the 2002 Godhra riots. Therefore, with a feeling of revenge, he founded a separate organization, Indian Mujahideen.<\/p>\n
gujarat
\nAfter independence, 57 accused were hanged in India till 2020.
\nFrom 1953 to 2020, 8 accused were hanged in the state of Gujarat. 2 accused were hanged in 1953, 1 accused in 1962, 1 accused in 1963, 1 accused in 1964 and 2 accused in 1965, 1 accused in 1989.
\nThis was a case of hanging the accused of Godhra incident.
\nIn December 1989, Shashikant Mali of Veraval was hanged in Rajkot jail.
\nThree members of the family of Hasubhai Dave, a well-known lawyer of the labor union of Rajkot, were murdered. 72 year old Gaurishankar Dave, Asha Niranjan Dave and a two year old girl died.<\/p>\n
There is no executioner in Gujarat. The executioner was brought from Maharashtra to carry out the hanging. The executioner is brought from the state. The way for death sentence has been opened in the district jails of Sabarmati and Rajkot. The hanging has started in Rajkot District Jail.<\/p>\n
Nathuram
\nNathuram Godse and Narayan Apte were hanged in Ambala Jail on 15 November 1949 for the assassination of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, which was the first hanging in independent India.<\/p>\n
nirbhaya case
\nAll four convicts in Delhi’s Chakchari gang rape case were hanged together on 20 March 2020 in Delhi’s Tihar Jail.<\/p>\n
Ajmal Kasab
\nAjmal Kasab, the terrorist caught in the Mumbai terror attack, was hanged on 21 November 2012 in Yerwada Jail, Pune.<\/p>\n
Afzal Guru
\nAfzal Guru, the mastermind of the 2001 terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament, was hanged in Tihar Jail on 9 February 2013.<\/p>\n
Yakub Memon
\nYakub Memon, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, was hanged in Nagpur Central Jail on 30 July 2015.<\/p>\n
in the world
\nThere has been a huge surge in death penalty cases around the world in recent years.
\nIn the last 10 years between 2015 and 2025, 12 thousand 329 people were officially hanged across the world. Specific figures for countries such as China, North Korea and Vietnam are not included.
\nChina executes the most people in the world, although this figure is kept secret.<\/p>\n
iran
\nIn 2025, 2,159 people were executed in Iran and 356 in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking and political opposition crimes.<\/p>\n
stay on hanging
\nEfforts to abolish the death penalty have been going on since World War II. Six countries banned it in 1977. 95 countries have abolished the death penalty. Nine countries have banned it for all crimes except in special circumstances. 35 countries have not imposed it in the last ten years. Other 58 countries have fully implemented it.<\/p>\n
According to Amnesty International, in 2009, 18 countries carried out and carried out at least 714 death sentences.<\/p>\n
controversy
\nSaint Nicholas of Myra saved three people wrongly sentenced to death by pulling the sword from the executioner’s hand at the last moment. The death penalty has been a hot topic of debate in various countries.<\/p>\n
Opponents argue that it is possible to execute innocent people by breaking the law and relying on false testimony. He cites statistics to show that most people on death row are poor or cannot afford a lawyer.
\nSupporters of the death penalty argue that hanging a criminal is a cheaper option than keeping a criminal in prison forever. They also consider it a lesson for others to learn, but despite this the fear of death penalty does not stop crimes.<\/p>\n
The United Nations voted on a non-binding resolution to abolish the death penalty. Most of the countries that have abolished the death penalty are Western countries. Countries with 60% of the world’s population still use the death penalty.<\/p>\n
The four main countries include China, India, the United States, and Indonesia. There seems to be no possibility of its ending in the near future.<\/p>\n
implementation
\nThe largest and most famous hangings are as follows:<\/p>\n
The biggest and most fascinating events globally
\nFormer Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was executed on 30 December 2006 for crimes against humanity and genocide.<\/p>\n
After the video of this incident was leaked, there was a huge uproar all over the world.<\/p>\n
For killing millions of innocent people during World War II<\/p>\n
Following the Nuremberg trials, Nazi leaders and military officials were executed by hanging on October 16, 1946.<\/p>\n
Albert Pierrepoint, a famous executioner in British history, hanged more than 200 war criminals from World War II.\u00a0(Google translation from Gujarati; see original report)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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