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Top Court Gives "Last Chance" To Centre To Decide On Beant Singh Killer's Mercy Plea
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to take a decision by March 18 on the mercy petition of death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the 1995 assassination case of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh.
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Supreme Court Orders Creation Of Dedicated Cells For Mercy Petition Disposal
The Supreme Court on Monday passed a slew of directions for early disposal of mercy petitions filed by convicts.
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Top Court Fumes At Centre Over No-Show In Beant Singh Assassin Case
Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is convicted for his involvement in an explosion that killed then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, has filed a petition for commutation of his death sentence.
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Mercy Petition Of Pak Terrorist Convicted In 2000 Red Fort Attack Case Rejected
The mercy petition of Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Arif alias Ashfaq convicted in the nearly 24-year-old Red Fort attack case has been rejected by President Droupadi Murmu, officials said on Wednesday.
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Under New Law, Death Row Convict Can't Appeal Against President's Decision
A death-row convict whose mercy petition has been disposed of by the president will have no right to appeal in a court against the decision when the new Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita Bill (BNSS), 2023 becomes law.
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Pak Woman Who Came To India Mentions Adnan Sami's Name In Mercy Petition To President
Mr Singh argued that Ms Haider should be allowed to reside at the house of her husband as the "motive of the Indian culture is live and let live and Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The world is one family)."
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Pak Woman Who Married UP Man Files Mercy Petition With President Droupadi Murmu
Pakistani citizen Seema Haider, who entered India in May without a visa, has filed a mercy petition with President Droupadi Murmu requesting that she, along with her four children, be allowed to stay at her "matrimonial home" in Greater Noida.
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President Rejects Mercy Plea Of Man Convicted Of Raping 4-Year-Old Girl
President Droupadi Murmu has rejected the mercy petition of a man convicted for raping and stoning to death a four-year-old girl in Maharashtra in 2008, according to the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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Rahul Gandhi Dares Maharashtra Government To Stop Yatra Amid Savarkar Row
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday continued to target late Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar, saying that he helped the British rulers and wrote a mercy petition to them out of fear.
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Rahul Gandhi Firm On Savarkar Remark, Uddhav Thackeray Says "We Don't Agree, But..."
Rahul Gandhi had spoken about VD Savarkar's mercy petitions to the British, at a function in Maharashtra's Washim during 'Bharat Jodo Yatra'
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Veer Savarkar Never Apologised To British: Sena's Sanjay Raut
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said Veer Savarkar had never apologised to the British, a day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh claimed that the freedom fighter had written mercy petitions to the British on Mahatma Gandhi's request.
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BJP Will Soon Declare Savarkar "Father Of Nation": Asaduddin Owaisi
Slamming Defence Minister Rajnath Singh over his comment that "on Mahatma Gandhi's request, Savarkar wrote mercy petitions to British", AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi alleged that BJP will soon declare Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as 'father of nation'.
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"Mahatma Gandhi Asked Savarkar To File Mercy Petitions": Rajnath Singh
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said it was on Mahatma Gandhi's request that he wrote mercy petitions to the British and people from the Marxist and Leninist ideology wrongly accuse him as a fascist.
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Rihanna's Tweet Takes Farmers' Protest Global, Spurs Support
Farmers' protest against the centre's three controversial laws, which they say will leave them at the mercy of corporates, has seen a tremendous outpouring of support on social media in the last few hours as international pop star Rihanna, climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, and lawmakers from the United States and the United Kingdom tweeted about t...
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Top Court Notice To Centre On Plea Seeking Guidelines Over Mercy Petitions' Disposal
The Supreme Court Thursday sought response from the Centre on a plea which has sought guidelines for time-bound disposal of mercy petitions and exhaustion of legal remedies by death-row convicts.
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Top Court Gives "Last Chance" To Centre To Decide On Beant Singh Killer's Mercy Plea
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to take a decision by March 18 on the mercy petition of death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the 1995 assassination case of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh.
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Supreme Court Orders Creation Of Dedicated Cells For Mercy Petition Disposal
The Supreme Court on Monday passed a slew of directions for early disposal of mercy petitions filed by convicts.
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Top Court Fumes At Centre Over No-Show In Beant Singh Assassin Case
Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is convicted for his involvement in an explosion that killed then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, has filed a petition for commutation of his death sentence.
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Mercy Petition Of Pak Terrorist Convicted In 2000 Red Fort Attack Case Rejected
The mercy petition of Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Arif alias Ashfaq convicted in the nearly 24-year-old Red Fort attack case has been rejected by President Droupadi Murmu, officials said on Wednesday.
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Under New Law, Death Row Convict Can't Appeal Against President's Decision
A death-row convict whose mercy petition has been disposed of by the president will have no right to appeal in a court against the decision when the new Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita Bill (BNSS), 2023 becomes law.
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Pak Woman Who Came To India Mentions Adnan Sami's Name In Mercy Petition To President
Mr Singh argued that Ms Haider should be allowed to reside at the house of her husband as the "motive of the Indian culture is live and let live and Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The world is one family)."
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Pak Woman Who Married UP Man Files Mercy Petition With President Droupadi Murmu
Pakistani citizen Seema Haider, who entered India in May without a visa, has filed a mercy petition with President Droupadi Murmu requesting that she, along with her four children, be allowed to stay at her "matrimonial home" in Greater Noida.
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President Rejects Mercy Plea Of Man Convicted Of Raping 4-Year-Old Girl
President Droupadi Murmu has rejected the mercy petition of a man convicted for raping and stoning to death a four-year-old girl in Maharashtra in 2008, according to the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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Rahul Gandhi Dares Maharashtra Government To Stop Yatra Amid Savarkar Row
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday continued to target late Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar, saying that he helped the British rulers and wrote a mercy petition to them out of fear.
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Rahul Gandhi Firm On Savarkar Remark, Uddhav Thackeray Says "We Don't Agree, But..."
Rahul Gandhi had spoken about VD Savarkar's mercy petitions to the British, at a function in Maharashtra's Washim during 'Bharat Jodo Yatra'
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Veer Savarkar Never Apologised To British: Sena's Sanjay Raut
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said Veer Savarkar had never apologised to the British, a day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh claimed that the freedom fighter had written mercy petitions to the British on Mahatma Gandhi's request.
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BJP Will Soon Declare Savarkar "Father Of Nation": Asaduddin Owaisi
Slamming Defence Minister Rajnath Singh over his comment that "on Mahatma Gandhi's request, Savarkar wrote mercy petitions to British", AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi alleged that BJP will soon declare Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as 'father of nation'.
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"Mahatma Gandhi Asked Savarkar To File Mercy Petitions": Rajnath Singh
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said it was on Mahatma Gandhi's request that he wrote mercy petitions to the British and people from the Marxist and Leninist ideology wrongly accuse him as a fascist.
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Rihanna's Tweet Takes Farmers' Protest Global, Spurs Support
Farmers' protest against the centre's three controversial laws, which they say will leave them at the mercy of corporates, has seen a tremendous outpouring of support on social media in the last few hours as international pop star Rihanna, climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, and lawmakers from the United States and the United Kingdom tweeted about t...
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Top Court Notice To Centre On Plea Seeking Guidelines Over Mercy Petitions' Disposal
The Supreme Court Thursday sought response from the Centre on a plea which has sought guidelines for time-bound disposal of mercy petitions and exhaustion of legal remedies by death-row convicts.
