NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday ticked off the Union govt for opposing consideration of the plea of condemned prisoner Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted of killing then Punjab CM Beant Singh in 1995, for commutation of death sentence. Rajoana has petitioned for reprieve on the ground that he has been on death row for nearly two decades now. Additional solicitor general K M Nataraj told a bench headed by Justice Vikram Nath that the President did not take a call on Rajoana's plea as it was filed by others and not by the prisoner himself. The bench, however, was not persuaded. If sentence is commuted, Rajoana will walk: Rohatgi Appearing for Rajoana, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi said that Supreme Court has commuted death sentences of convicts who had been facing the gall

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