Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 312 · Decided 19 March 2020
Akshay Kumar Singh v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 312 · [2020] 4 S.C.R. 546
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 121/2020
- Decided
- 19 March 2020
- Bench
- R. BANUMATHI, ASHOK BHUSHAN, A.S. BOPANNA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 432, 433; Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Nirbhaya Case - Order rejecting mercy petition by the President of India - Judicial review of - Writ petition filed u/Art.32 by one of the convict - Held: Exercise of power of judicial review of the decision taken by the President of India in Mercy - Considering the grounds raised by the petitioner, no ground to hold that there was non-application of mind by the President of India - Constitution of India - Art.32 - Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - ss. 432, 433. Epuru Sudhakar and Another v. Govt. of A.P. and
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