Supreme Court of India

Ajay Kumar Pal v. Union of India and Another

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Reported as [2014] 12 S.C.R. 441
Bench Dipak Misra, U. Pay Umesh Lalit and R.F. Nariman JJ.
Decided 12 December 2014

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What the Court ordered

We hold that undue long delay in 8 execution of sentence of death will entitle the condemned prisoner to approach this Court under Article.

Judgment, page 9

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Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to

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