Balwant Singh Rajoana was convicted in the 1995 assassination of the then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh. On May 3 last year, the Supreme Court had refused to commute Rajoana's death sentence.
President Droupadi Murmu rejected the mercy plea by Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Arif alias Ashfaq, who was convicted in the 2000 Red Fort attack case.
According to Rashtrapati Bhavan, this was the first mercy petition rejected by Murmu after she assumed office as the 15th President of India on July 25, 2022.
Supreme Court on mercy petition: The Supreme Court of India has said if there is an inordinate delay in not deciding the mercy petition, the object and purpose of the death sentence would be frustrated, and asked states/appropriate authorities to decide mercy petitions at the earliest.
Akshay Thakur, one of the convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, on Saturday filed a mercy plea, jail officials said.
Mukesh, one of the rape convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, has submitted a mercy petition to Tihar jail authorities. The convict moving towards the last resort comes as the Supreme Court refused to stay his execution on Tuesday while dismissing a curative petition against his conviction and capital punishment.
The Delhi Government on Sunday has recommended the rejection of the petition of one of the convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape murder case, who had applied for mercy petition.
Pakistan Army that it is close to take a decision on the mercy petition submitted by Kulbhushan Jadhav, adding that India should expect “good news soon”
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected the mercy petition of Rajendra Pralhadrao Wasnik who raped and killed a three-year-old girl in Maharashtra's Amrawati district on March 2, 2007.With this, Mukherjee has signed 22 death
New Delhi: Mercy petitions of five death row convicts including Surendra Koli, who was found guilty in the sensational Nithari serial rapes and killings, were today rejected by the Home Ministry.Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the government to include delay as a criteria in deciding the mercy petition of a death row convict.Pointing out that the government has set out certain criteria for
New Delhi, April 3: Dharampal, the Haryana rape convict who was released on parole and went on to murder five members of the victim's family, is set to be hanged next week.President Pranab Mukherjee has
New Delhi, Jan 14: President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected the mercy petition of Saibanna Ningappa Natikar, presently in Hindalga central jail, Belgaum, Karnataka, says a media report. Natikar was convicted of killing his wife and
Chandigarh, Mar 26: SGPC, the apex religious body of Sikhs, today sent a mercy petition to the President seeking clemency for death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana even as Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal
New Delhi, Sep 30: Home Minister P Chidambaram today said no decision has been taken by President Pratibha Patil on Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru's petition seeking commutation of death sentence.“President's decision (on his mercy
New Delhi, Sept 1 : The Centre today steered clear of the controversy over Tamil Nadu Assembly asking the President to reconsider the mercy pleas of Rajiv Gandhi's killers but said as long as death
New Delhi, August 10: The government is understood to have recommended to the President rejection of the clemency petition of Parliament attack convict Mohd Afzal Guru, condemned to death. The home ministry is believed to
Lahore, Aug 3: A hearing on a petition challenging a possible presidential pardon for Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row following his conviction for alleged involvement in bomb attacks in Pakistan in 1990,
Jaipur, Jun 21: A decision on the mercy petition of 80-year-old Pakistani prisoner Khalil Chishty is likely to take some time with the Rajasthan Governor today seeking more information on the case.Governor Shivraj Patil held
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