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After Kasab, death row convicts in the queue

New Delhi: Thanks to the hush-hush manner in which he was executed on Wednesday shortly after the rejection of his mercy petition, Ajmal Kasab had been denied his right to challenge the President's decision. Whatever

PTI Updated on: November 22, 2012 17:34 IST


A death row convict from Assam, Mahendra Nath Das, is alive even after the Gauhati high court dismissed his mother's petition in September 2011 against the rejection of his mercy petition by Patil.




The Supreme Court's subsequent intervention has forced the authorities to put off his hanging.

The trend of death row convicts obtaining judicial relief despite the exhaustion of the clemency option is however not of recent origin.

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