Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 482 · Decided 3 May 2023
Balwant Singh v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 482 · [2023] 4 S.C.R. 265
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 261/2020
- Decided
- 3 May 2023
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, VIKRAM NATH, SANJAY KAROL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Constitution Article 32, 72, 161
Headnote
Constitution of India - Arts. 32, 72, 161 - Mercy Petition - Petitioner was convicted for having committed an offence u/s. 120- B, 302, 307 of IPC and u/s. 3(b), 4(b) and 5(b) r/w s. 6 of Explosives Substances Act, 1908 and was awarded death sentence - Death reference of by the High Court - Petitioner neither preferred appeal against the decision of the High Court nor preferred the mercy petition - The mercy petition for the petitioner was preferred by the Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee - The case of the petitioner is that the Union has not
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