The Supreme Court on Friday will pronounce the
much-awaited verdict on the petition of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, who
had sought commutation of his death penalty to life sentence on the
ground that there was inordinate delay by the President over his plea
for clemency.
Bhullar was sentenced to death in 2003 for carrying out a bomb
blast outside Delhi youth Congress office in 1993. He had approached the
Supreme Court in 2011, saying that his death sentence should be
commuted to life imprisonment, because there was an inordinate delay by
the President over his plea for clemency.
His mercy petition was pending for 8 years. Bhullar had filed his
original mercy plea to commute the sentence to life imprisonment in
2003. It was rejected in 2011, a week after he approached the Supreme
Court.
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| Devinderpal Singh Bhullar was sentenced to death in 2003 for carrying out a bomb blast outside Delhi youth Congress office in 1993. |
The apex court's verdict will also lay precedence for others on death row like the Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts.
Src: IBN Live(India)
Src: IBN Live(India)
Justified decision by SC. The president, however, should not have taken 10 years to come to a decision on mercy plea. What discipline and punctuality the citizens of India would learn from the head of the Nation?
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