{"id":40183,"date":"2015-12-02T05:28:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T23:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=40183"},"modified":"2015-12-02T05:28:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T23:58:24","slug":"states-cant-grant-remission-without-centres-concurrence-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/states-cant-grant-remission-without-centres-concurrence-sc","title":{"rendered":"States can&#8217;t grant remission without Centre&#8217;s concurrence: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_40184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40184\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/Rajiv-Gandhi-pardaphash-78837.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"40184\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/states-cant-grant-remission-without-centres-concurrence-sc\/rajiv-gandhi-pardaphash-78837\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/Rajiv-Gandhi-pardaphash-78837.jpg?fit=660%2C495&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"660,495\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rajiv-Gandhi-pardaphash-78837\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/Rajiv-Gandhi-pardaphash-78837.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/Rajiv-Gandhi-pardaphash-78837.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-40184 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/Rajiv-Gandhi-pardaphash-78837.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"States can't grant remission without Centre's concurrence: SC\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/Rajiv-Gandhi-pardaphash-78837.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/Rajiv-Gandhi-pardaphash-78837.jpg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">States can&#8217;t grant remission without Centre&#8217;s concurrence: SC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>States cannot exercise statutory power to remit sentences of convicts, tried under central laws and probed by central agencies like CBI without consulting the Union government, the Supreme Court held today.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">Settling the constitutional issues that had arisen out of the Tamil Nadu government&#8217;s decision to set free the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the apex court said that though the states have power to grant remission, they cannot exercise it suo motu.<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu, who is demitting office today, also said that the Centre will have primacy in granting remission to convicts in cases registered under central law and probed by central agencies like CBI.<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">The bench, which was unanimous in answering all the issues raised in the reference of a smaller bench, however, differed by 3:2 on the question as to whether courts can quantify the jail term in offences which prescribe life term as sentence. The majority said that courts have the power to do so.<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">The bench, also comprising justices F M I Kalifulla, Pinaki Chandra Ghosh, Abhay Manohar Sapre and U U Lalit, referred to a three-judge bench the factual and legal aspects of grant of remission to convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">The apex court had earlier said that it would be dealing with different issues framed by the smaller bench on the scope of executives&#8217; power of remission.<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">The apex court had on February 20, last year stayed the state government&#8217;s decision to release three convicts &#8212; Murugan, Santhan and Arivu, whose death sentence had been commuted to life term by it.<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">It had later also stayed the release of four other convicts &#8212; Nalini, Robert Pious, Jayakumar and Ravichandran, saying there were procedural lapses on part of the state government.<\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">Santhan, Murugan and Arivu are currently lodged in Central Prison, Vellore. The other four are also undergoing life sentence for their role in Gandhi&#8217;s assassination on May 21, 1991 in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu.<\/div>\n<div>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States cannot exercise statutory power to remit sentences of convicts, tried under central laws and probed by central agencies like CBI without consulting the Union government, the Supreme Court held today. 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