The Supreme Court today(September 24) said that it will hear a modification application by the Union seeking further guidelines in the 2014 Shatrughan Chauhan judgment to make it more victim-centric.

It may be recalled that the Union's modification application dates back to 2020 filed in the context of the pending execution of death warrants of the four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape-murder case. The death warrants were only executed in 2020 after the Supreme Court rejected their final plea in a special sitting at midnight. In 2014, a three-judge bench laid down various guidelines for the protection of the rights of death row convicts and declared that long pendency in the disposal of a mercy petition is a ground to commute the death penalty to a life sentence. It also

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