10-15-2006, 06:31 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Soli slams AP Govt in pardon case </b>
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Omer Farooq | Hyderabad
<b>The YSR Reddy Government, already reeling under the impact of a Supreme Court verdict in case of pardoning a Congress leader in a murder case, received yet another blow on Saturday.</b>
Former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee said that it was the State Government and the not the governor who should be blamed for granting pardon to a Congress leader on extraneous ground.
Sorabjee, who was in Hyderabad to deliver the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Memorial Lecture at the National Police Academy, said that the governor Sushil Kumar Shinde had acted only on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers.
He was asked to comment on the Supreme Court's order quashing the decision to grant pardon to G Venkat Reddy while serving a sentence of ten years imprisonment in a case of double murder.
<b>Venkat Reddy, husband of Congress legislator Charita Reddy has now returned to the prison but Chief Minister Reddy said that the option of appealing to the governor for commutation of sentence was still kept open for the family by the Supreme Court.</b>
Sorabjee, who was amicus curie in the case, said that the role of the president and the governors in the matter of granting pardon and commuting sentences was limited as they were bound by the recommendations of the Government.
Stating that the governor cannot be faulted, he said, <b>"the governor goes by the advise of the ministerial council, which recommended the clemency just because he was a Congress worker. The recommendation was made on extraneous consideration. It was thoroughly irrelevant consideration".</b>
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This man killed TDP workers and CM granted him pardon. Now court had laid down rules, I hope this will discourage politicians to pardon criminals.
Why there is a lack of repect for consitution or law by Indian politicans?
Pioneer.com
Omer Farooq | Hyderabad
<b>The YSR Reddy Government, already reeling under the impact of a Supreme Court verdict in case of pardoning a Congress leader in a murder case, received yet another blow on Saturday.</b>
Former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee said that it was the State Government and the not the governor who should be blamed for granting pardon to a Congress leader on extraneous ground.
Sorabjee, who was in Hyderabad to deliver the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Memorial Lecture at the National Police Academy, said that the governor Sushil Kumar Shinde had acted only on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers.
He was asked to comment on the Supreme Court's order quashing the decision to grant pardon to G Venkat Reddy while serving a sentence of ten years imprisonment in a case of double murder.
<b>Venkat Reddy, husband of Congress legislator Charita Reddy has now returned to the prison but Chief Minister Reddy said that the option of appealing to the governor for commutation of sentence was still kept open for the family by the Supreme Court.</b>
Sorabjee, who was amicus curie in the case, said that the role of the president and the governors in the matter of granting pardon and commuting sentences was limited as they were bound by the recommendations of the Government.
Stating that the governor cannot be faulted, he said, <b>"the governor goes by the advise of the ministerial council, which recommended the clemency just because he was a Congress worker. The recommendation was made on extraneous consideration. It was thoroughly irrelevant consideration".</b>
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This man killed TDP workers and CM granted him pardon. Now court had laid down rules, I hope this will discourage politicians to pardon criminals.
Why there is a lack of repect for consitution or law by Indian politicans?