New
Delhi:
The Supreme Court has issued a circular stating that 40 'Death Cases' will be
listed before three-judge benches starting from September 7 including the one
related to LeT terrorist Mohammad Arif.
The
list includes four review petitions of convicts whose appeals were dismissed by
the court upholding death penalty.
One
of the cases scheduled to be heard by the top court relates to the sentence of
Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq in the 2000 Red Fort
attack case in which three people, including two Army jawans, were killed.
The
top court had earlier issued fresh standard operating procedure (SOP) to accord
final hearing of cases in physical mode from September 1, and said it will
employ a hybrid option from Tuesday to Thursday with strict observance of
COVID-19 norms.
The
top court has been hearing cases through video-conferencing since March last
year due to the pandemic and several bar bodies and lawyers have been demanding
that physical hearings should resume immediately.
The
SOP, issued by the Secretary General on August 28, had made it clear that the
courts would keep hearing miscellaneous cases through virtual mode on Mondays
and Fridays.
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