Senior counsel Soli J. Sorabjee has opined that the power to grant pardon and to suspend, remit and commute sentences enjoyed by the President and Governors under Article 71 and Article 161 of the Constitution respectively, is subject to review by the Supreme Court and High Courts. Sorabjee, who was appointed amicus curiae to assist the Supreme Court made these submissions before a bench of Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice S. H. Kapadia, as per a report in Hindustan Times (August 31, 2006.)
Soli J. Sorabjee: defining executive powers
Sorabjee said the courts could exercise their power of judicial review if the......