SC stays execution of Veerappan aides for 6 weeks

February 20, 2013 11:31

Just in: The Supreme Court has stayed the executions of the three associates of sandalwood brigand Veerappan till further notice. The case has been adjourned for six weeks.

The four -- Gnana Prakasam, Simon, Meesakaara Madiah and Bilavendran -- have been on death row for nine years and have requested the apex court to commute their death sentence to life imprisonment since there has been an inordinate delay in deciding on their mercy petition.

Their mercy petitions pending since 2004 were rejected earlier by President Pranab Mukherjee.

They are accused of killing 22 policemen and forest officials in a landmine blast in Palar, Karnataka in 1993. The designated special court at Mysore had awarded life imprisonment to all four in the case.

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