Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 249 · Decided 12 April 2013
Devender Pal Singh Bhullar v. State of N.C.T. of Delhi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 249 · [2013] 6 S.C.R. 676
- Case number
- WRIT TO PETITION (CRIMINAL)... No. 16039/2011
- Decided
- 12 April 2013
- Bench
- G.S. SINGHVI, S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 72, 161
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 72 and 161 - Petition under- For grant of pardon - Delay is disposal of - Whether sufficient ground for commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment by judicial forum - Held: The Court cannot exercise power of judicial 0 review of undue delay - the rule that long delay may be the ground for commutation of death sentence, cannot be invoked in the case where conviction is under TADA - In the present case, the petitioner having been convicted under TADA, the decision taken by the President not to grant pardon, cannot be
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