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Court ruling

The Supreme Court's ruling on the exercise of the executive power of pardon and remission of sentences could not have come at a more appropriate time. By ruling that political and other extraneous considerations are irrelevant and that the executive decision is subject to judicial review, the court has restored the people's confidence in the rule of law and the criminal justice system.

M. Jameel Ahmed,
Mysore

The President and Governors are not superhuman for them to be vested with the absolute power to grant pardon, reprieve, and remission. They are elevated to the office out of political expediency. Parliament would do well to scrap Articles 72 and 161 of the Constitution.

M.K. Natarajan,
Coimbatore

If the Supreme Court has the right to review executive clemency, why send a clemency appeal to the President and put him in a fix? Any decision he takes will be praised and opposed in equal measure, and lead to the accusation that he is biased.

G. Ravindran,
Tiruchi

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