In Brief
Mukesh, a convicted person facing execution, filed a writ petition under Article 32 challenging the rejection of his mercy petition by the President and raising substantive challenges about the evidence, co-accused's disability, and arrest procedures. The Supreme Court dismissed the petition. Having already exhausted multiple remedies—including criminal appeal (dismissed in 2017), review petition (dismissed in 2018), curative petition (dismissed in 2020), and a previous writ petition (dismissed in January 2020)—the Court found no ground to entertain a further writ petition on the same merits, concluding that Article 32 is not the appropriate forum to relitigate matters already decided.
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