Presidential Mercy

• Reject Afzal Guru's mercy plea: Bal Thackeray appeals to Pranab Mukherjee

  A day after former Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee won the Presidential race, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray urged him to reject the mercy petition of Afzal Guru, convicted for a terror attack on Parliament in 2001, a brazen assault in which 12 people were killed when Parliament was in session.

• President's challenges will include what next for mercy petition of Afzal Guru

  Pranab Mukherjee, the man who will be India's 13th president, has tough choices to make when he takes office on July 25.

• President rejects mercy plea of Rajiv Gandhi's murderers

  President Pratibha PatIl has rejected the mercy pleas of three men convicted for the 1991 assassination of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, paving the way for their execution, an official told AFP on Thursday. "The rejection (of the clemency petitions) happened last week after the president returned from a foreign tour," presidential spokes...

• Presidential mercy to eight on death row

  President Pratibha Patil has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence given to eight murder convicts in two separate cases.Patil gave her order on June 15 on mercy petitions submitted by Shyam Manohar and five others, and Dharmendra Kumar and Narendra Yadav.     Shyam Manohar along with Sheo Ram, Prakash, Suresh, Ravinde...