In a first of its kind, two sisters from Kolhapur (Maharashtra) may become the first women ever to be hanged in India, after they were sentenced to death in 2001 for kidnapping 13 children and killing 9 of them. The two women- Renuka Kiran Shinde and Seema Mohan Gavit, had their mercy petitions rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee in July.