New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday observed that the Centre alone was responsible for the delay in taking a decision on the mercy petition of Balwant Singh Rajoana, a Babbar Khalsa sympathiser on death row for the 1995 assassination of former Punjab CM Beant Singh, and told the government that it was for the executive, not the court, to take a call on his execution. A bench of justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and NV Anjaria pressed additional solicitor general (ASG) KM Nataraj, appearing for the Centre and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to clarify why the government had neither acted on the mercy plea nor proceeded with his execution. "Who is responsible for the delay? We did not stay the execution. You had to take a call," the bench told Nataraj, adding that earlier directions of the court, including one by a bench led by then chief justice UU Lalit in 2022, required the Centre to decide on the matter....