The Supreme Court of India will give the verdict on the petition of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, who had sought clemency and commutation of his death penalty to life sentence on the ground that there was unprecedented delay by the President over his plea .

He was sentenced to death in 2003 for carrying out a bomb blast outside the Delhi Youth Congress office in 1993. He had approached the Supreme Court in 2011, saying that his death sentence should be commuted to life imprisonment, because there was an inordinate delay by the President over his plea for clemency.

His mercy petition was pending for 8 years. Bhullar had filed his original mercy plea to commute the sentence to life imprisonment in 2003. It was rejected in 2011, a week after he approached the Supreme Court.

(With inputs from the web)

(AW-Jyotishman)