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New Delhi [India], November 4 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned by two weeks, the plea relating to delay in deciding the mercy petition of death-row prisoner Balwant Singh Rajoana, who was awarded a death sentence for the assassination of the then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995. A bench of Justices BR Gavai, Prashant Kumar Mishra and KV Viswanathan stated that they would only consider Rajoana’s plea seeking release only after hearing the Union government and the state of Punjab. Rajoana, a sympathiser of the Babbar Khalsa militant group, sought the commutation of his deat…

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