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Statistics on pending mercy pleas disturbing: SC
April 12, 2013
"Disturbing" is how the Supreme Court termed the statistics which showed that 17 mercy pleas filed between 1999 and 2011 remained pending for periods ranging from one year to 13 years.
A bench of justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya also noted that the figures "give an impression" that the Centre and the President's Secretariat "have not dealt with these petitions with requisite seriousness".