Think of victim's family before pardoning convicts: SC

The timing of the ruling couldn't have been better.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that the powers of the President and governors to grant pardon to a convict or to reduce the sentence imposed on him were subject to judicial review. It recently quashed a decision of an AP Governor Sushil Kumar Shinde, to remit the sentence of a convicted congress activist.

The Justices also said, the President and governors have to keep in mind the effect of such pardon on the family of the victim.

All those who're seeking for clemency for a person sentenced to death penalty in the parliament attack case should think about the victims who died in protecting the Parliamant and those who died in the cross fire and their families. Even after 5 years, some of the families of the victims have not received the compensation announced by the Dikshit government in Delhi. Whoever protest for clemency of the convicted may do justice to those who died in the attack, if they protest the delay in Delhi Govt's not paying the compensation.