AMRITSAR, Oct. 4 -- Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) secretary has written to the additional director general of police (jails) seeking an appointment to meet death-row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana.

The SGPC request comes 10 days after the Supreme Court, during a hearing, had observed that the Centre alone was responsible for the delay in taking a decision on the mercy petition of Rajoana, a Babbar Khalsa sympathiser on death row for the 1995 assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. The court reminded the government that it was for the executive, not the court, to take a call on his execution.

According to SGPC, a delegation led by gurdwara body president Harjinder Singh Dhami is slated to meet Rajoana a...