Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 1173 · Decided 4 November 2022
B. A. Umesh v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 1173 · [2022] 8 S.C.R. 628
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1892/2022
- Decided
- 4 November 2022
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, S. RAVINDRA BHAT, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
Sentence/Sentencing : Death Sentence - Commutation of - Award of death sentence in a rape and murder case - Commutation sought on the grounds of delay in disposal of mercy petition and solitary confinement from the order till the disposal of mercy petition - Held: Undue long delay in execution of death sentence would entitle the condemned prisoner to pray for commuting the death sentence to that of life imprisonment - On facts, the alleged period is of two years and three months, starting
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