Thursday, May 26, 2011

Mercy Petition Rejected


There is news that the President of India has rejected the mercy petition of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar and Mahendra Nath Das.

Devinderpal Singh Bhullar has been convicted for his alleged terrorist acts. The most interesting fact about this case, is that while hearing his appeal in the Supreme Court, 2 judges on the bench convicted and sentenced him to death while the third judge had acquitted him.
The judges of the highest court in this country not only have disagreement on the sentence of Devinderpal but completely disagree on his guilt and conviction, under these circumstances the death sentence should have been commuted to life. Its extremely unfortunate that the home ministry has not looked into this issue and had rejected the mercy petition.