Beant Singh killing: SC requests President decide Balwant Singh Rajoana's mercy plea

New Delhi [India], November 18 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday asked the secretary to the President of India to place the matter of mercy petition of death-row prisoner Balwant Singh Rajoana before the President with a request to consider it within two weeks.

Rajoana 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 Mis