Delhi Election Results 2025 Live Updates
The counting of votes has started, with parties and citizens bracing up for the high-stakes battle in the national capital. All 70 seats of Delhi went to polls on February 5 and results will be declared today.
Follow all the updates here:
12:39 PM: Arvind Kejriwal loses New Delhi seat by 3182 votes
12:25 PM: APP's Manish Sisodia loses Jangpura seat
12:04 PM: Ramesh Bidhuri continues to extend his lead against Atishi from the Kalkaji seat. He now leads the Delhi chief minister by over 3,000 votes.
11: 15 AM: AAP's Amanatullah Khan takes lead in Okhla
11: 10 AM: Arvind Kejriwal is trailing from the New Delhi seat again as Parvesh Verma extends his lead
11: 05 AM: Celebrations start at BJP headquarters as trends show decisive lead in Delhi
10: 45 AM: Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia gains lead by 2345 votes
10: 40 AM: BJP are slated for a comeback to Delhi after 27 years.; Saffron party leads in 42 seats, compared to 28 for AAP
10: 35 AM: Top AAP leader Manish Sisodia is currently trailing by over 1300 votes in Jangpura
10: 30 AM: BJP's Manish Choudhary lead from Okhla assembly seat; BJP has never won the assemby seat in history
10: 25 AM: Congess loses lead in lone seat in early trends
10: 20 AM: Atishi trails again
10: 15 AM: APP's Atishi takes lead from Kallkaji
10:15 AM: Congress loses lead in lone seat in early trends
10:05 AM: AAP touches 30 mark in trends, BJP leads in 39
9:50 AM: Manish Sisodia gains lead in Jangpura seat
9:35 AM: AAP’s Durgesh Pathak is leading with 4,553 votes from Rajinder Nagar
9:30 AM: BJP leads in 2020 riot hit Mustafabad
9:25 AM: AAP’s Gopal Rai is currently leading in Babarpur Assembly constituency
9:15 AM: The BJP continues to extend its lead, now pegged at 44 seats while AAP lags behind at 25.
9:05 AM: Former Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain trails from the Shakur Basti assembly seat against BJP's Karnail Singh
9:05 AM: AAP’s Adeel Ahmad Khan leading from Mustafabad
9:00 AM: AAP’s Saurabh Bharadwaj is leading in the Greater Kailash seat
8:55 AM: Congress continues to lead in 1 seat in Delhi
8:55 AM: BJP past halfway mark in early trends
8:50 AM: BJP's Satish Upadhyay is leading from Malaviya Nagar in early leads. However, AAP MLA Somnath Bharti expressed confidence that his party will retain the seat.
8:45 AM: BJP's Kapil Mishra, known for delivering hate speeches during 2020 North East Delhi riots leads
8:40 AM: BJP’s sitting MLA OP Sharma is leading in East Delhi’s Vishwas Nagar
8:40 AM: Parvesh Verma leading against Kejriwal in New Delhi
8:40 AM: Amanathullah Khan trailing from Okhla
8:35 AM: BJP leads on over 30 seats in early trends, AAP ahead on over 24
8:30 AM: Early trends showed that Delhi CM Atishi is trailing
8:25 AM: Arvind Kejriwal trails in New Delhi seat in early trends
8:10 AM: Early trends show lead for BJP
8:05 AM: Counting of votes for 70 seats begin
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High courts upheld only 8 per cent of death sentences; SC confirms none in recent years: Report
New Delhi (PTI): Highlighting that a high acquittal rate of death row convicts by the Supreme Court and high courts demonstrates a pattern of "erroneous or unjustified convictions", a study of 10 years of death penalty data has revealed that the top court did not confirm any death sentences in recent years.
The study by Square Circle Clinic, a criminal laws advocacy group with the NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, found that an overwhelming majority of death sentences imposed by trial courts did not withstand scrutiny at higher judicial levels. Acquittals far outnumbered confirmations at both the high courts and Supreme Court levels.
According to the report, the trial courts across India awarded 1,310 death sentences in 822 cases between 2016 and 2025. High courts considered 842 of these sentences in confirmation proceedings but upheld only 70 or 8.31 per cent.
In contrast, 258 death sentences (30.64 per cent) resulted in acquittals. The study noted that the acquittal rate at the high court level was nearly four times the confirmation rate.
Data showed that of the 70 death sentences confirmed by high courts, the Supreme Court decided 38 and did not uphold a single one. The apex court has confirmed no death sentences between 2023 and 2025.
"Wrongful or erroneous or unjustified convictions, then, are not random or freak accidents in the Indian criminal justice system. The data indicates they are a persistent and serious systemic concern," the report said.
Over the last decade, high courts adjudicated 1,085 death sentences in 647 cases, confirming only 106 (9.77 per cent). During this period, 326 persons in 191 cases, were acquitted.
The report attributed low confirmation rates to the appellate judiciary’s concerns regarding failures in due process. "This coincides with increased Supreme Court scrutiny of safeguards at the sentencing stage," the report said.
Of the 153 death sentences decided by the apex court over the last decade, the accused were acquitted in 38 cases. In 2025 alone, high courts overturned death sentences into acquittals in 22 out of 85 cases (over 25 per cent). The same year, Supreme Court acquitted accused persons in more than half of the death penalty cases it decided (10 out of 19), the report said.
The study highlighted that 364 persons who were ultimately acquitted "should not even have been convicted and unjustifiably suffered the trauma of death row". It added that such failures extend beyond adjudication and reflect serious lapses in investigation and prosecution.
The question of remedies for wrongful convictions remains pending before the Supreme Court. In September 2025, three persons acquitted by the apex court filed writ petitions seeking compensation from the state and argued that their wrongful convictions violated their fundamental right to life and liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution.
"In 2022, the Supreme Court crystallised a sentencing process in Manoj v. State of Madhya Pradesh , and mandated all courts to follow those guidelines before imposing or confirming a death sentence," the report read.
In 2025, the apex court held in Vasanta Sampat Dupare v. Union of India that death penalty sentencing hearings form part of the right to a fair trial and stressed that capital punishment can be imposed only after a constitutionally compliant sentencing process.
"However, even at the high courts whether the process mandated under Manoj is being complied with is in doubt,” the report said.
