NO provision for mercy pleas in rape-murder: BJP

December 31, 2012 16:53

A day after Delhi gangrape victim was cremated, BJP today demanded that there should be no provision for convicts, sentenced to death in rape-cum-murder cases, to file a mercy petition.

Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj raised the demand while attacking the UPA government for the "secrecy" in the cremation of the December 16 gangrape victim, who was raped in a moving bus.

"The culprits be hanged and the government should not accept any mercy petitions in such cases. If this can be done then this will be the only respect to that victim," she said while referring to five cases of rape-cum-murders in which the UPA government, she said, had granted pardon to convicts.

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