Supreme Court of India
B. A. Umesh v. Union of India & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We hold that undue long delay in execution of sentence of death will entitle the condemned prisoner to approach this Court under Article.
Judgment, page 24
From the headnote
Sentence/Sentencing : Death Sentence – Commutation of – Award of death sentence in a rape and murder case – Commutation sought on the grounds of delay in disposal of mercy petition and solitary confinement from the date of conviction order till the disposal of mercy petition – Held: Undue long delay in executi on of death sentence would entitle the condemned prisoner to pr ay for commuting the death sentence to that of life impris onment – On facts, the alleged period is of two years and three months, starting from the receipt of the mercy petition by the Central Government till the disposal
Authorities it was built on
- 1989 Smt. Triveniben & -ors. v. State of Gujarat & Ors.
- 1983 T. V. Vatheeswaran v. State of Tamil Nadu
- 2014 Mohd. Arif @ashfaq v. He Registrar, Supreme Court of India & Ors.
- 2019 Md Mannan @ Abdul Mannan v. State of Bihar
- 2011 B.A. Umesh v. Regr.gen.high Court of Karnataka
- 2014 Ajay Kumar Pal v. Union of India and Another
- 2022 A.G. Perarivalan v. State, through Superintendent of Police Cbi/sit/ Mmda, Chennai, Tamil Nadu and Anr.
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