?We need to obtain clarifications from the Delhi government in this regard because of Bhullar?s illness and in view of a precedent, or what we call an unwritten law, whereby if a mercy petition takes too long to be decided, the punishment is legitimately expected to be condoned to life term. In our communication, we also intend to highlight the time consumed in deciding his mercy plea,? sources in Tihar told The Indian Express.
Jail officials pointed to the precedent ? the 1989 verdict in the case of Khemchand which has not been overturned by a superior court.
In the Khemchand vs State case, the Delhi High Court commuted the death sentence of Khemchand from death to life sentence, solely on the ground that the President had taken more than five years in deciding his mercy plea. Convicted of killing a man (who had an affair with his daughter), his wife and their two children, Khemchand was sentenced to death by Delhi High Court in 1983 and the Supreme Court upheld his punishment in 1984.
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