SC questions issuance of death warrants by trial courts before expiry of time period for appeal
Current Affairs:The Supreme Court on Thursday scrutinized the issuance of dark warrants for execution of capital punishment by preliminary courts even before the expiry of 60-day timespan for documenting of claim by convicts in the peak court.
A seat headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde alluded to the 2015 decision of the peak court in which it was held that the execution order can’t be given before the expiry of 60-day obligatory period accessible to a convict for documenting the intrigue in the Supreme Court against the high court’s judgment.
“We need to know with respect to how such requests giving dark warrants are being passed by the preliminary court in spite of a revealed judgment right now.
“Somebody needs to clarify this. The legal procedure can’t be permitted to happen this way,” the seat said.
It likewise remained the execution order gave by a Gujarat sessions court against a convict Anil Surendra Singh Yadav in an assault and murder case.
The seat additionally looked for help of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and approached him to discover purposes behind issuance of such execution orders in spite of the zenith court’s judgment.
The law official said the numbness of law can’t be reason for judges to pass such requests.
Aditi Mehta 