{"id":56281,"date":"2019-06-06T21:03:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=56281"},"modified":"2019-06-06T21:03:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T15:33:11","slug":"high-court-seeks-govts-response-on-pleas-of-two-death-row-convicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-seeks-govts-response-on-pleas-of-two-death-row-convicts","title":{"rendered":"High Court seeks govt&#8217;s response on pleas of two death row convicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi :<\/strong> The Bombay High Court Thursday sought responses from the Centre and the Maharashtra government on petitions filed by two convicts on death row to halt their execution scheduled on June 24.<\/p>\n<p>The petitions filed last week by Purushottam Borate and Pradeep Kokate, convicted in the 2007 gangrape and murder of a woman Wipro BPO employee, have claimed that the &#8220;inordinate delay&#8221; in their execution has violated their fundamental rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-06T205629.111.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" data-attachment-id=\"56282\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-seeks-govts-response-on-pleas-of-two-death-row-convicts\/download-2019-06-06t205629-111\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/download-2019-06-06T205629.111.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,168\" 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=\"download &amp;#8211; 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the duo said in the petitions filed in the HC last week.<\/p>\n<p>The petitions cited the Supreme Court judgments that said mercy petitions should be decided within three months.<\/p>\n<p>In the pleas, the convicts said the delay in execution made them believe that the government intended to grant them mercy and let them live.<\/p>\n<p>The petitions sought the court to stay the execution of the death penalty and consider the inordinate delay and seek an explanation from the authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi : The Bombay High Court Thursday sought responses from the Centre and the Maharashtra government on petitions filed by two convicts on death row to halt their execution scheduled on June 24. 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