A bench of Justices J. Chelameswar and Abdul Nazeer issued notice to the Union government.
In 1980, the Supreme Court in the Bachan Singh vs State of Punjab abolished the mandatory death penalty in cases of murder and propounded the “rarest of rareâ€doctrine, allowing courts to impose death penalty in cases such as murder, terrorism, treason, espionage.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre to file their replies by May 8 on petitions filed by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and a Samajwadi party MLA challenging voting through Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) without addition of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT).
A bench of Justices J. Chelameswar and Abdul Nazeer issued notice to the Union government after hearing senior counsel and former finance minister P. Chidambaram appearing on behalf of BSP and SP MLA.
The court also permitted Congress, Trinamul and other parties to intervene after senior counsel Kapil Sibal informed that Congress party was also intervening in the matter.
( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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