NEW DELHI, Apr 4:President Pranab Mukherjee has upheld execution for five people convicted for heinous crimes while commuting death sentence to life term in two other cases.
The President, under Article 72 of the Constitution, has power to ‘grant pardon, and others, and to suspend, remit or commute sentences in certain cases’.
No more mercy files are pending before the President now.
According to Home Ministry sources, the mercy petitions of the following have been dismissed by the President:
Gurmeet Singh of Uttar Pradesh, who was convicted for killing 13 members of a family on August 17, 1986.
Dharampal from Haryana, who had killed five members of the family of a girl he had raped in 1993.
Daughter of a former Haryana MLA, Sonia, and her husband, Sanjeev, who killed eight of her family members in Hisar in 2001. (PTI)
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