SC grants Centre 4 weeks to decide on Balwant Singh Rajoana’s mercy petition

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In September 2020, Rajoana moved the SC stating that his mercy petition pending for respective years beryllium taken up instantly for disposal and MHA's 2019 connection beryllium implemented. (File photo)

The Supreme Court Monday adjourned by 4 weeks the proceeding connected the plea by Balwant Singh Rajoana seeking commutation of his decease condemnation for the assassination of erstwhile Punjab main curate Beant Singh.

A Special Bench of Justices B R Gavai, P K Mishra and K V Viswanathan adjourned it aft the Centre sought much clip to process a mercy plea filed for him.

Terming it a delicate matter, Additional Solicitor General K M Nataraj appearing for the Centre said it had been receiving inputs connected the substance but much is needed. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said different agencies volition person to beryllium consulted.

Rajoana, who was convicted for the August 31, 1995, assassination of Singh and 12 others, was sentenced to decease successful 2007 by a peculiar tribunal of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee filed a mercy petition connected his behalf successful March 2012. In September 2019, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) wrote to Punjab proposing commutation of his decease condemnation into beingness imprisonment to commemorate the 550th commencement day of Guru Nanak Dev, but the connection was ne'er implemented.

In September 2020, Rajoana moved the SC stating that his mercy petition pending for respective years beryllium taken up instantly for disposal and MHA’s 2019 connection beryllium implemented. Hearing the plea, the Supreme Court asked the Centre to decide. The Centre past filed an affidavit stating that it “has decided to defer taking immoderate determination connected the mercy plea”. “As it has a superior imaginable of compromising the information of the federation oregon creating a instrumentality and bid situation,” said the Centre.

On May 3, 2023, the Supreme Court rejected his plea and near it to the Centre to determine connected the mercy plea of Rajoana, a erstwhile Punjab Police constable, astatine an due time. He past filed a caller plea.

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