By News Room
The Supreme Court has observed that death row convicts are taking advantage of inordinate delay in deciding their mercy petitions. Along with this, the court has directed the state governments and the concerned authorities to decide on such petitions at the earliest.
In fact, the Supreme Court, while hearing an interesting case from Maharashtra, took note of the fact that a woman and her sister were sentenced to death by a trial court for abducting 13 children and killing 9 children in Kolhapur in 2001. Sentenced and in 2004, the Bombay High Court upheld his sentence. Later, both of them filed mercy petitions with the Governor and the President. His mercy petitions were rejected by the Governor in 2013 and by the President in 2014. After the confirmation of the death sentence in the High Court, the state government and the machinery that sits with the files are responsible for the seven years and 10 months for the disposal of the mercy petition before the Governor and the President. The gallows of hanging is visible every moment for the accused sentenced to death, while the state government and its officials do not consider the disposal of mercy petitions as important, although in the case of Kolhapur, the hanging was changed to life imprisonment, but it is true that the state Efforts should be made by governments and officials to reach the mercy petitions to the Governor and the President within a maximum of 2-3 months so that justice can be done to the accused properly. Not only this, the accused against whom they have committed crimes will also get justice on time. That’s why the state governments should take this direction of the Supreme Court seriously. (sp)
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