SC defers Balwant Singh Rajoana's plea seeking release in former Punjab CM Beant Singh's killing

New Delhi [India], November 4 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned by two weeks, the plea relating to delay in deciding the mercy petition of death-row prisoner Balwant Singh Rajoana, who was awarded a death sentence for the assassination of the then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995.

A bench of Justices BR Gavai, Prashant Kumar Mishra and KV Viswanathan stated that they would only consider Rajoana's plea