Panaji: Retired police inspector S V Caeiro and police constable Savlo Naik, who are facing a ten-year imprisonment in custodial death case of alleged criminal Abdul Gaffar Khan, have filed a mercy petition before governor Mridula Sinha.
The Supreme Court had convicted Caeiro and Naik on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The apex court order came following an appeal filed by CBI against the acquittal of the duo by the high court in 2003.
Caeiro has filed a petition under Article 161 of the Constitution of India, urging the governor to suspend the sentence imposed against him by the Supreme Court. A similar petition has also been made by Naik, pleading that his sentence too, be suspended.
The police had apprehended the deceased from Khareband, Margao on May 17, 1994 at 12.20am. At 2.40am of the same night, Khan was brought in dead at a government hospital. At the time of the incident, Caeiro was in-charge of Margao police station. In his mercy petition, Caeiro has submitted that he had left the police station at 1.25am on the night of May 17, 1994, while the accused was lodged in the lock-up at 1.30am.
Under the Constitution, the President of India and the governors of the states have been given the power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment or to suspend, remit or commute the sentence.
The Supreme Court had convicted Caeiro and Naik on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The apex court order came following an appeal filed by CBI against the acquittal of the duo by the high court in 2003.
Caeiro has filed a petition under Article 161 of the Constitution of India, urging the governor to suspend the sentence imposed against him by the Supreme Court. A similar petition has also been made by Naik, pleading that his sentence too, be suspended.
The police had apprehended the deceased from Khareband, Margao on May 17, 1994 at 12.20am. At 2.40am of the same night, Khan was brought in dead at a government hospital. At the time of the incident, Caeiro was in-charge of Margao police station. In his mercy petition, Caeiro has submitted that he had left the police station at 1.25am on the night of May 17, 1994, while the accused was lodged in the lock-up at 1.30am.
Under the Constitution, the President of India and the governors of the states have been given the power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment or to suspend, remit or commute the sentence.
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