The Union Home Ministry set down rules for mercy petition.

 The rules involves long defers in examinations/trial and age and mental insufficiency of the candidate and the grounds where leniency might be defended.

The guidelines are:  

•    Identity of the charged (age, sex or mental insufficiency) or circumstances of the case, (for example, incitement).

• Cases in which redrafting court has communicated its uncertainty as to unwavering quality of the proof however in any case settled on conviction.

• Cases where it is claimed that new confirmation is realistic, fundamentally with a perspective to seeing whether new enquiry is defended.

• Where the High Court has turned around on bid an exoneration by a session judge or has on claim improved the sentence.

• Difference of sentiment in a Bench of two judges, requiring reference to the third judge of the high court.

• Consideration of proof in obsession of obligation in posse murder cases.

• Long postpones in examinations and trials.

The above rules are not particular but rather will be fairly as wide rules. The particular rules couldn't be confined for looking at benevolence petitions because of lion's share of various sort of cases and fluctuated circumstances.