The Supreme Court today Wednesday March 12,2014 dismissed the Centre's plea seeking review of
its January 21,2014 order which said that unexplained and inordinate delay in
deciding the mercy petition of death row convicts is grounds for
commuting their sentence to life imprisonment.
"We have gone through the petition and the connected papers and we find no merit in it. Accordingly we dismiss it," the court observed today.
While pronouncing its verdict in January 2014, the SCI had commuted the
sentences of 15 death row convicts and accepted that that prolonged
imprisonment of a convict awaiting execution amounts to cruelty and
violates the fundamental right to life under Article 21 of the
Constitution.
Later, the top court also commuted the death sentence of 3 assassins of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
"We have gone through the petition and the connected papers and we find no merit in it. Accordingly we dismiss it," the court observed today.
Later, the top court also commuted the death sentence of 3 assassins of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
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