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.
