India, Oct. 9 -- The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday dismissed the Centre's application for laying down victim and society-centric guidelines in heinous offence cases where death penalty was awarded. The matter came up for hearing before a bench of justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and NV Anjaria. "We do not find any merit in this MA (miscellaneous application)," the bench said while dismissing the plea. The Centre had moved the application in the top court in January 2020 and contended that the prevalent guidelines were only accused and convict-centric.
On January 31, 2020, the top court agreed to examine the application and sought responses from various stakeholders, on whose petition the top court in 2014 laid down guidelines relating...