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President turns down two more mercy petitions before leaving office

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Source: Zee News

Just before President Pranab Mukherjee’s tenure is about to end, reports say that he rejected two mercy petitions in the last week of May. Mukherjee whose term ends on July 24 has rejected a total of 30 mercy pleas. Notably, Mukherjee’s predecessor Pratibha Patil had accepted mercy pleas of 30 death row convicts.

One of the two rejected pleas pertained to the rape and murder of a four-year-old girl by three men [ Jeetu (21), Babu alias Ketan (27) and Sunny alias Devendra (24)] on June 24, 2012, in Somnath Ki Juni Chawl area in Indore. The men kidnapped the girl while she was watching a wedding procession, raped her and strangulated her to death.

The other case is that of the gang-rape and murder of a techie in Pune by a cabbie and his accomplice in 2007. The girl, who was en route to the office for the night shift, was picked up by a cab. Convicts Purushottam Dasharath Borate and Pradeep Yashvant Kokade then raped and killed the 22-year-old Wipro employee.

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