Supreme Court orally noted that the Central government's failure to decide on the 2012 mercy plea filed by Balwant Singh Rajoana, the death row convict in the Beant Singh assassination case, seemed to be contemptuous
A Constitution bench of Justices KM Joseph, Ajay Rastogi, Aniruddha Bose, Hrishikesh Roy and CT Ravikumar is likely to pass its order in the matter on January 24 regarding regulations to govern passive euthanasia.
However Central government clarified that it is in favour of lifting the restrictions from export and that it was not bothered about competing interests