SATPAL vs STATE OF HARYANA — W.P.(Crl.) No. 45 - 46/1999

The Supreme Court quashed the Governor's pardon order dated 25.1.1999 that remitted the unexpired sentence of murder convict Siriyans Kumar Jain, finding the Governor exercised the Article 161 power without proper application of mind and without being apprised of material facts such as the actual period of sentence undergone. The Court held the order was vitiated by the Governor's failure to consider relevant materials and the suspicious haste in processing, though it permitted the Governor to reconsider the matter with proper information. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.