Statistics on pending mercy pleas disturbing: SC
April 12, 2013  20:30
"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".
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