NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the central government's plea seeking victim- and society-centric guidelines for award of sentences, particularly death sentences, in place of the present system which is accused-centric and takes into consideration various mitigating factors relating to convicts. The central government also sought a directive for the introduction of a timeframe for death row convicts to file a curative petition after the dismissal of a review petition, and the filing of a mercy petition within seven days of the issuance of the death warrant. It further sought that the death sentence be executed within seven days of rejection of the mercy petition. Opposing the central government's plea, senior advocate Yug Mohit Chaudhry and Puja Sharma said that

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