Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 103 · Decided 29 January 2020
Mukesh Kumar v. Union of India and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 103 · [2020] 1 S.C.R. 761
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 40/2020
- Decided
- 29 January 2020
- Bench
- R. BANUMATHI, ASHOK BHUSHAN, A.S. BOPANNA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32, 72, 161
Headnote
Constitution of India - Arts. 32, 72 and 161 - Rejection of mercy petition filed by a death-row convict - Judicial review of - Petitioner was convicted in Nirbhaya's case which relates to the gang rape of the victim - The Trial Court recorded the incident within the petitioner to death - The High Court and the Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence - The petitioner, after exhausting all his remedies filed mercy petition on 14.01.2020 addressed to the President of India u/Art. 72 and Lieutenant Governor u/Art. 161 of the Constitution
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