New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu is known to have rejected the mercy petition of a man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a two-year-old girl in Maharashtra in 2012, as reported by timesnow.in.

According to the report, this is the third mercy plea rejected by the President after assuming office on July 25, 2022. ADVERTISEMENT

On October 3, 2019, the Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence awarded to Ravi Ashok Ghumare, saying he had no control over his “carnal desires” and surpassed all natural, social and legal limits just to satiate his sexual hunger.

In its 2:1 verdict, a three-judge bench comprising Justice Surya Kant (now chief justice of India), said the man had “ruthlessly finished” a life which was yet to bloom and his act of committing unnatural offence with the

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