Rajoana filed a mercy petition before the President on March 25, 2012 but has heard nothing on it till date. Several attempts to seek progress on his mercy petition under the Right to Information (RTI) Act did not succeed. The judgment declared that prolonged delay in execution of the death sentence has a “dehumanizing effect” on the death row convict. After moving the mercy petition, he and his family moved four RTI petitions between 2016 and 2018. Rajoana did not prefer an appeal against this decision and instead filed a mercy petition before the President under Article 72 of the Constitution.

Source: Hindustan Times September 11, 2020 16:40 UTC