The Supreme Court today (September 24) heard the petition filed by Balwant Singh Rajoana , Babbar Khalsa terrorist, seeking commutation of the death sentence awarded to him in the Punjab CM Beant Singh assassination case. He is seeking commutation on the grounds of the delay in considering the mercy petition pending before the President of India since 2012.

Singh, a police officer in Punjab, was convicted on July 27, 2007 by a special Central Bureau of Investigation Court, under Sections 120-B, 302, 307 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Sections 3(b), 4(b) and 5(b) r/w 6 of the Explosives Substances Act, 1908 for an incident involving a deadly suicide bombing at the Chandigarh secretariat complex on August 31, 1995, wherein the then Chief Minister of Punjab, Beant Singh along with 16 o

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