“This is clear from the admission of the Inspector General (Prisons and Correctional Services), Government of Bihar that the mercy petitions of the four convicts were forwarded to the Secretariat of Hon’ble President of India through the Home Department, Government of Bihar vide letter dated 07.07.2004.”
However, the mercy petitions neither reached the Home Ministry, nor to the President’s Secretariat.
It was only after the intervention of the NHRC that these were processed after 12 years.
