Bhullar Mercy Petition

• Supreme Court commutes 15 death sentences due to delays

  The Supreme Court will today decide whether a delay in deciding on mercy petitions justifies commuting a convict's death sentence to life.

• Supreme Court commutes death sentence citing delay in deciding mercy petition

  The Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of a murderer to life imprisonment on the grounds that the President's office took too long to reject his petition seeking mercy.

• Devender Pal Singh Bhullar's appeal rejected. Supreme Court verdict could impact other death row prisoners

  The Supreme Court has ruled that Punjab militant Devender Pal Singh Bhullar will be executed for killing nine people with a car bomb in 2009 in Delhi.

• Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's appeal rejected. Supreme Court verdict could impact other death row prisoners

  Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's appeal rejected: The Supreme Court has ruled that a death sentence cannot be commuted to life imprisonment because of a delay in execution. The court has rejected an appeal by Devinderpal Singh Bhullar against his hanging, and could impact the cases of 16 other prisoners on death row who have pleaded against their punish...

• Death sentences and delayed decisions on appeals: big verdict today

  The Supreme Court will decide today on whether a death sentence can be commuted to life imprisonment because of a delay in execution.

• Supreme Court to gear Bhullar's plea today

  Bhullar's wife had petitioned the Supreme Court to commute his death sentence to life; his mercy petition was submitted to the President on January 1, 2003 but was rejected on May 25, 2011.

• What if we passed Guru Resolution, asks Omar

  Barely hours after the Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a resolution urging the President to review the death sentence of Rajiv Gandhi's killers, came a tweet from the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. "If the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly had passed a resolution similar to the Tamil Nadu one for Afzal Guru, would the reaction have been as mut...

• Politics over Bhullar's clemency, Akali Dal seeks PM's intervention

  Politics seems to be brewing over the death sentence of Punjab militant Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar. After Bhullar's plea for clemency was rejected last week by President Pratibha Patil, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today rushed to his rescue, seeking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's "intervention on humanitarian grounds" to save him from the gallow...

• Bhullar case: Akali Dal seeks PM's intervention

  Punjab's ruling party the Shiromani Akali Dal today sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention to save death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar from the gallows. The party sought the Prime Minister's intervention on humanitarian grounds and urged him to take a sympathetic view. They said they wanted clemency for Bhullar as it is an emo...