Supreme Court of India
Balwant Singh v. Union of India & Ors.
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Resultantly commutation in such cases having been granted by this Court, do not help the petitioner in view of the facts and situation being different in those three cases and in the present case.
Judgment, page 14
From the headnote
Constitution of India – Arts. 32, 72, 161 – Mercy Pet ition – Petitioner was convicted for having committed an offence u/s . 120- , 302, 307 of IPC and u/s. 3(b), 4(b) and 5(b) r/w s. 6 of Exp losives Substances Act, 1908 and was awarded death sentence – Death reference of the petitioner was confirmed by the Hi gh Court – Petitioner neither preferred appeal against the decision of th e High Court nor preferred the mercy petition – The mercy petitio n for the petitioner was preferred by the Gurudwara Prabandhak Commit tee – The case of the petitioner is that the Union has not taken any step
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