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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


The law subjecting the President's exercise of his mercy jurisdiction to judicial review was laid down by the Supreme Court in 1988 at the instance of Kehar Singh, who had been sentenced to death in the Indira Gandhi assassination case.




Another major ground on which human rights defenders have assailed Kasab's execution is that he had not been provided access to legal assistance in the drafting of his mercy petition.

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