The two sisters used to kidnap children from localities of poor people in the areas of their operation and force them to commit thefts, lift goods and snatch chains.
The third case pertains to the gruesome killing of a girl child in village Asra of Maharashtra in which the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Rajendra Pralhadrao Wasnik in October 2012 for sexually abusing and murdering the victim. His mercy petition was rejected by the Governor of Maharashtra.
The Home Ministry also recommended the rejection of mercy petition of Jagadish who was convicted for murdering his wife and five children (four daughters and a son, all aged between one and 16 years).
He was sentenced to death by Additional Sessions Judge, Manasa on April 24, 2006 and the punishment was confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2009.
Jagadish had pleaded that he was in an unsound state of mind and that his death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment as the capital punishment had not been executed for over three years.
However, the apex court said that in Jagdish's case there was not much of a delay from the time of his conviction till the dismissal of his appeal on September 18, 2009.
The mercy petition of Assam's Holiram Bordoloi, whose death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2005,, has also been recommended for rejection by the Home Minister.
Bordoloi carried out the execution of three men of the same family in a gruesome manner in broadlight in front of the villagers in an effort to protect his supremacy in the village.
On November 26, 1996, Bordoloi, along with 17 others, attacked the hut of Narayan Bordoloi who was staying with his brother, wife and two sons. When Narayan locked the hut from inside, the accused and his men set the hut on fire.
Narayan's brother and elder son tried to escape through a hole in the wall. However, Bordoloi and his men pushed the boy back into the fire.
Narayan and his son were charred to death while his wife sustained serious burn injuries.
Bordoloi did not stop at this. He later dragged another brother of Narayan, who was staying nearby, and sliced him into pieces in front of the villagers.
