President of India rejects mercy pleas: 3 to hang for mass murders, 1 for rape

President Pranab Mukherjee took a more hard-nosed view in rejecting the mercy petition of three mass murderers and a rapist-murderer confirming death sentences awarded to the convicts.

President Mukherjee took a more hard-nosed view in rejecting the mercy petition of Haryana rapist-murderer Dharampal who now faces a death sentence.

Dharampal, a rape convict who murdered five members of the victim's family while out on parole in 1993, had been rejected by the President. His plea has been pending for 14 years.

He was charged with raping a girl in Sonepat in 1991 and was given a 10-year jail sentence in 1993. Shortly after being granted parole, he bludgeoned to death the girl's parents, a sister and two brothers while they were sleeping in their home.

He was also charged with raping and killing of Haryana.

'Dharampal to be hanged in Ambala'

Gurmeet Singh convicted of killing 13 members of a family in 1986,and Suresh and Ramji who were found guilty of killing five relatives over a property dispute, are among those whose clemency has been rejected.

Among the other cases that have been disposed off by the President are of Sonia, daughter of a former Haryana MLA, and her husband Sanjeev, who drugged and killed eight of her family in Hisar in 2001 including her parents.

Also Sunder Singh from Uttarakhand is convicted for murder of five members of his brother's family on June 30, 1989, Jafar Ali from Uttar Pradesh who was convicted for killing wife and five daughters in 2002 and Praveen Kumar of Karnataka, convicted for killing four members of a family on February 23, 1994.

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