Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 867 · Decided 12 December 2014
Ajay Kumar Pal v. Union of India and Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 867 · [2014] 12 S.C.R. 441
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 128/2014
- Decided
- 12 December 2014
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, R.F. NARIMAN, UDAY UMESH LALIT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 6, 21, 32
Headnote
A B Constitution of India, 1950 - Art. 6, 21 and 32 - Writ Petition - Maintainability ~ Death sentence confirmed upto C . Supreme Court - Petitioner put in solitary confinement right from the day of award of death sentence by trial court- Mercy Petition - Delay of 3 years 10 months in petition seeking commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment - On the ground of inordinate delay in disposal D of Mercy Petition - Held: Petition u!Art. 32 is maintainable - The delay in disposal of Mercy Petition comes within the expression 'inordinate delay' - Segregation of the
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