Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 184 · Decided 14 February 2020
Vinay Sharma v. Union of India and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 184 · [2020] 10 S.C.R. 393
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 65/2020
- Decided
- 14 February 2020
- Bench
- R. BANUMATHI, ASHOK BHUSHAN, A.S. BOPANNA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Constitution Article 72, 32; RTI Act
Headnote
Constitution of India: Art.72 - Writ petition challenging the rejection of mercy petition by the President of India and seeking commutation of death sentence inter alia on the grounds of non furnishing of relevant materials under the RTI Act, non- consideration of relevant material, torture, solitary confinement - Held: In the writ petition filed u/Art.32 seeking judicial review of the order of the President passed u/Art.72, the scope is very limited and the Court is called upon to examine:- where the order has been passed without application of mind; where the order has been
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