PREZ REJECTS TWO MORE MERCY PLEAS

President Pranab Mukherjee rejected two mercy petitions in the last week of May, just two months before he completes his tenure.

The cases are of rapes and murders — one of a four-year-old girl by three men in Indore in 2012, and of a 22-year-old woman by two men in Pune in 2007. The convicts urged the President to commute the death penalty given to them by local courts and upheld by high courts and by the Supreme Court.