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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | SC asks Centre, states to give details on pending mercy pleas in three days

SC asks Centre, states to give details on pending mercy pleas in three days

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published Published on Feb 23, 2012   modified Modified on Feb 23, 2012
-The Times of India
 
The Supreme Court on Wednesday took exception to the delay in getting information relating to pending mercy pleas by condemned prisoners before the President and the governors and asked the Centre and states concerned to provide details about such pendency within three days.

Expressing anguish over the casual approach of the governments, a bench of Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhyay said this was the final opportunity to the governments concerned and posted petitions on this issue for final hearing on March 1.

The court asked home secretaries concerned to supply required data to the office of the additional solicitor general in Supreme Court dealing with the case. The court also asked advocate Siddharth Dave, who appeared for the Centre, to bring all details about pending mercy pleas on the next date of hearing.

A petition by condemned prisoner Devender Pal Singh Bhullar about inordinate delay in consideration of his mercy plea by the President had persuaded the apex court to take note of the plight of similarly placed death row convicts who were living in jails with an uncertain future.

Bhullar, who was convicted for masterminding a bomb blast that killed nine people in Delhi, has been on death row since August 25, 2001. His mercy petition was pending with the President for eight years and was finally dismissed late last year.

Since January 2011, he has been undergoing treatment for depression at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) for mental trauma and he had moved the apex court for clemency on the ground of delay.

Finding no reason for the Centre and states to inordinately delay decision on mercy petitions, the bench said, "We want to know from the date mercy petitions reach the competent authority, what is being done."

There is no time limit to consider mercy petitions, but the delay by the government is viewed as a serious violation of right to life and liberty of condemned prisoners.


The Times of India, 23 February, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-asks-Centre-states-to-give-details-on-pending-mercy-pleas-in-three-days/articleshow/11998233.cms


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