India: Further information: Judges support mercy, president rejects it: Saibanna Ningappa Natikar

Index Number: ASA 20/004/2013
Date Published: 14 January 2013
Categories: India

India's president has rejected a mercy petition from Saibanna Ningappa Natikar, though 14 former judges have told him they believe the death sentence was wrongly imposed. Saibanna is at imminent risk of execution.