SC Dismisses Review Petitions Of Two Death-Row Convicts [Read Judgment]
The Supreme Court bench of justices Dipak Misra, R.Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan, dismissed on July 7 the review petitions filed by death-row convicts, lodged in Patiala Central Jail, Vikram Singh @ Vicky Walia and Jasvir Singh.The two were convicted and sentenced to death for the offence of kidnapping Abhi Verma alias Harry, a school student, in Hoshiarpur, and killing him with an. The Supreme Court bench of justices Dipak Misra, R.Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan, dismissed on July 7 the review petitions filed by death-row convicts, lodged in Patiala Central Jail, Vikram Singh @ Vicky Walia and Jasvir Singh. The inordinate delay in applying for the relief by the convicts was condoned by the Supreme Court, before it agreed to hear their review petitions afresh in open court by a three-Judge bench. That the state had not submitted any evidence that the convicts were beyond reform, as required by the Supreme Court’s judgment in Bachan Singh, was also not given due weight by the bench.
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