Supreme Court of India
Devender Pal Singh Bhullar v. State of N.C.T. of Delhi
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the petitioners have failed to make out a case for invalidation of the exercise of power by the President under Article 72 of the Constitution not to accept the prayer for commutation of the sentence of death into life imprisonment.
Judgment, page 79
From the headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 72 and 161 - Petition under- For grant of pardon - Delay is disposal of - Whether sufficient ground for commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment by judicial forum - Held: The Court cannot exercise power of judicial 0 review only on the ground of undue delay - the rule that long delay may be the ground for commutation of death sentence, cannot be invoked in the case where conviction is under TADA - In the present case, the petitioner having been convicted under TADA, the decision taken by the President not to grant pardon, cannot be quashed by
Authorities it was built on
- 1978 Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India
- 1983 Machhl Singh and Others v. State of Punjab
- 1994 Kartar Singh v. State of Punjab
- 1989 Smt. Triveniben & -ors. v. State of Gujarat & Ors.
- 1974 Ediga Anamma v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- 2007 Rakesh Kumar Jain and Anr. v. Stateof U.P. Thr. Collector and Anr.
- 1983 T. V. Vatheeswaran v. State of Tamil Nadu
- 2006 Epuru Sudhakar and Anr. v. Govt. of A.P. and Ors.
- 1984 Javed Ahmed Abdul Hamid Pawala v. State of Maharashtra
- 2002 Devender Pal Singh v. State N.C.T. of Delhi and Anr.
- 1988 Kehar Singh and Anr. Etc. v. Union of India & Anr.
- 1971 Vivian Rodrick v. State of West Bengal
- 2000 Satpal and Anr. v. State of Haryana and Ors.
- 2003 State (govt. of Nct of Delhi) v. Prem Raj
- 2009 Jag Dish v. State of M.P.
- 1979 Rajendra Prasad Etc. Etc. v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- 1998 Swaran Singh v. State of U.P. and Ors.
- 1973 Neti Sreeramulu v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- 2011 Narayan Dutt and Ors. v. State of Punjab and Anr.
- 1991 Daya Singh v. Union of India and Ors
Where later benches applied it
- 2020 Vinay Sharma v. Union of India and Others
- 2020 Pyare Lal v. State of Haryana
- 2020 Mukesh Kumar v. Union of India and Others
Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to
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