The Supreme Court has dismissed the Union Government’s plea seeking stricter timelines for death row convicts to exhaust their legal remedies and for executions to be carried out within seven days of the rejection of a mercy petition.
A Bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta, and N.V. Anjaria observed that there was no merit in the application and that the court’s 2014 ruling in ‘Shatrughan Chauhan v. Union of India’, which the Centre sought to modify, was exhaustive and did not require any clarifications.
