Beant Singh assassination: SC to hear Rajoana's plea for commutation of death sentence on November 4

The Supreme Court will hear Balwant Singh Rajoana's plea on November 4. Rajoana, convicted in the 1995 assassination of Punjab's then chief minister Beant Singh, seeks to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment. He argues there has been an inordinate delay in deciding his mercy petition, causing him significant mental agony and infringing his right to life.