In a first case of pardon by President Pranab Mukherjee after assuming office, death sentence of a convict, Atbir, has been commuted to life imprisonment.
Atbir was sentenced to death by a sessions court here in 2004 for the murder of -
- his step-mother
- step-sister and
- step-brother
The decision was upheld by the high court and Supreme Court in August 2010
In June 2012, the Home Ministry recommended to the President commutation to life imprisonment.
The President disposed of the petition on Nov15,2012 commuting the death sentence given to him to life
imprisonment.
According to the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Mukherjee has sent nine mercy petitions to the Ministry of Home Affairs for further consideration(include mercy pleas of Mohd Afzal Guru, convicted for attacking Parliament in which nine persons were killed and 16 were injured)
There is now only one mercy petition of Saibanna Ningappa Natikar pending before the President. The Supreme Court had upheld Natikar's death sentence in 2005 who was convicted for killing his wife and daughter. The MHA has sent its recommendation on November 5 to the President's secretariat for decision
Note
On Nov 5,2012, the President had rejected the mercy plea of Mohd Ajmal Kasab who was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court in August last year for waging war against the country and killing 166 persons and injuring 238 others in the audacious terror attack in Mumbai in 2008
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