{"id":35040,"date":"2014-09-02T15:16:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T09:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=35040"},"modified":"2014-09-02T15:16:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T09:46:41","slug":"death-row-convicts-can-heard-open-courts-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/death-row-convicts-can-heard-open-courts-sc","title":{"rendered":"Death row convicts can be heard in open courts: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: 14px\/19px Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the review plea of a death convict against his conviction and sentence be heard in an open court by at least a three-judge bench and allowed all condemned prisoners, whose review pleas have already been decided, to approach it within a month for re-opening of their cases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/19px Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">In a majority verdict by a five-judge constitution bench, the apex court said that a death convict whose curative petition has been decided cannot approach for re-opening of his review plea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/19px Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Earlier, in most cases, review petitions were decided in judges&#8217; chambers and the parties were not allowed to be present.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clr_lft\" style=\"font: 14px\/19px Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; clear: left; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">\u00a0While four judges including Chief Justice R M Lodha favoured open court hearing of review petition, one judge justice J Chelameswar gave a dissenting verdict.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court passed the order on a batch of petitions filed by six death convicts including Red Fort attack case convict Mohammed Arif and 1993 Mumbai serial blast convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon pleading the court that their review pleas should have been decided in open court hearing.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the review plea of a death convict against his conviction and sentence be heard in an open court by at least a three-judge bench and allowed all condemned prisoners, whose review pleas have already been decided, to approach it within a month for re-opening of their cases. 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