Rejection of Das mercy plea by then prez illegal: SC

In a first of its kind verdict, the Supreme Court has declared as "illegal" rejection of mercy petition of death row convict M N Das by the then President Pratibha Patil and commuted the sentence......

'How could I have seen my son being hanged'

The Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted the death sentence of Mahendra Nath Das, a condemned prisoner from Assam, to life sentence. Das has been on the death row for the last 16  years and the......

SC commutes to life term the death sentence of convict

The Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded to murder convict M N Das, whose mercy petition was rejected by then President Pratibha Patil. A bench headed......

President Pratibha Patil, the merciful

President Pratibha Patil has commuted the death sentence of 35 people to life imprisonment, the highest by any head of state in three decades.However, the first woman President of the country......