MERCY PETITION

RELEVANCE OF MERCY PETITION Law is blind ; it does not bother to find out the human being who perpetrated the crime. The person involved may be the only son of the parents or he may be the bread winner , on whom the family depends for survival. I remember a case in which an eminent Doctor was convicted for murder of his wife. He was given the benefit of life imprisonment by the Governor , because of his utility for the public. In almost all cases , the mercy petition is considered by the Governor or the President on ‘political ‘ considerations. This is the purpose of this power granted to them. If a Hindu was involved , will the President refuse mercy? When the first Communist Government assumed power in Keralam , in 1957 , all those Party workers undergoing life imprisonment , were let off. So mercy petitions should not be rejected