The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Union government four weeks to decide on the long-pending mercy plea of Balwant Singh Rajoana, a Babbar Khalsa sympathiser convicted in the 1995 assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, even as the Centre flagged the “sensitivity” of the issue and claimed that the situation was not conducive to resolving the matter …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday directed President Droupadi Murmu's secretary to place before her the mercy petition of death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the 1995 assassination case of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, for consideration. A bench of Justices B R Gavai, P K Mishra and K V Viswanathan requested the President to consider …
The Supreme Court on Monday directed President Droupadi Murmu's secretary to place before her the mercy petition of death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the 1995 assassination case of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, for consideration. A bench of Justices B R Gavai, P K Mishra and K V Viswanathan requested the President to consider the plea …
The Supreme Court on Monday urged President Droupadi Murmu to decide the long-pending mercy petition of Balwant Singh Rajoana, a Babbar Khalsa sympathiser convicted in the 1995 assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, within two weeks. Taking into consideration that the petitioner has been on the death row, we now direct the secretary, Honourable the President of India, …
President Droupadi Murmu recently rejected the mercy petition of Pakistani terrorist Arif Mohammed, who was convicted and sentenced to death after being found guilty in the 2000 Red Fort attack case. — Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi June 13, 2024 Notably, Project 39A has in the past used one of LeT terrorist Mohammed Arif’s mercy petitions to rescue death-row …
Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the assassination of Punjab chief minister Beant Singh in 1995, on Tuesday, wrote a letter to the Akal Takht jathedar to direct the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee to withdraw the mercy plea filed with the President of India for commuting death penalty to a life sentence. Balwant Singh Rajoana Rajoana, who is lodged in Patiala …
