Five days police custody to Surendra Bhandari
Assault and murder attempt on BJP workers
Bantwala, June 22: Bantwala court on Friday handed over Surendra Bhandari accused in the assault and murder attempt to BJP workers, to police custody for five days.
However, two other accused Sathish Kulal (37) and Prithviraj Shetty (35) were handed over to the judicial custody. In a joint operation, Bantwala and Mangaluru DCIB police arrested Surendra and Sathish at Pachchinadka in Mangaluru. On charges of helping the accused to abscond after the incident, Pruthviraj J Shetty was also arrested at Kumble. All the three were produced before the court on Thursday night. Now, following the police request, the court handed over Surendra to five days police custody for interrogation.
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SC directs President's secretary to place before her Beant assassination convict's mercy plea
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Monday directed President Droupadi Murmu's secretary to place before her the mercy petition of death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted in the 1995 assassination case of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, for consideration.
A bench of Justices B R Gavai, P K Mishra and K V Viswanathan requested the President to consider the plea within two weeks.
"Inspite of the matter being specifically kept today none appeared for Union of India. The bench assembled only for this case," the bench said.
"On the last date the matter was adjourned to enable the Union to take instructions from the office of the President as to by when will mercy plea be decided. Taking into consideration that the petitioner is on a death row, we direct the secretary to the President of India to place the matter before the President with a request to consider the same within two weeks from today," the bench said.
The matter will now be heard on December 5.
On September 25, the top court had sought responses from the Centre, the Punjab government and the administration of the Union Territory of Chandigarh on Rajoana's plea.
The then Punjab chief minister and 16 others were killed in a blast at the entrance of the civil secretariat in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995.
A special court sentenced Rajoana to death in July 2007.
Rajoana has said that a mercy petition under Article 72 of the Constitution was moved by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on his behalf in March 2012.
On May 3 last year, the apex court had refused to commute his death sentence and said the competent authority could deal with his mercy plea.
