{
  "id": 14848584,
  "title": "K’taka cabinet rejects mercy pleas of convicts in 2003 techie murder",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/ktaka-cabinet-rejects-mercy-pleas-of-convicts-in-2003-techie-murder",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-16T02:19:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hindustan Times",
    "slug": "hindustan-times",
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/ktaka-cabinet-rejects-mercy-pleas-of-convicts-in-2003-techie-murder-101792089996130.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Karnataka Cabinet on Thursday rejected the clemency petitions of Shubha Shankaranarayana and D Arun Verma, who are serving life sentences for the December 2003 murder of Shubha’s fiance, software engineer B V Girish, in Bengaluru",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}