New Delhi, Sep 24 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to hear on October 8 the Centre’s plea for formulating “victim and society-centric” guidelines in heinous cases attracting death penalty.

The matter came up for hearing before a bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and N V Anjaria.

The Centre moved the application in the top court in January 2020 and contended the existing guidelines were only “accused and convict-centric”. Show Full Article

On January 31, 2020, the apex court agreed to examine the application and sought responses from various stakeholders, on whose petition the top court in 2014 laid down guidelines relating to the execution of death row convicts.

The guidelines were laid down in Shatrughan Chauhan v. Union of India case in 2014.

The top court had

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