April 7, 2013 2:10 PM
SC stays hanging of eight death convicts whose mercy petitions were rejected by President
The Supreme Court in a special sitting on Saturday night stayed the hanging of eight death convicts whose mercy petitions were rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee earlier this week. A bench comprising Justices P Sathasivam and M Y Eqbal stayed the executions on a PIL seeking to commute the death ...