The Supreme Court today extended the stay on the execution by six months of the four aides of sandalwood bandit Veerappan, who are on death row at the Belgaum Central Jail in Karnataka. The apex court stayed the hanging till further orders, while saying it would wait for the SC verdict in the Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar case, whose mercy plea has suffered a long delay. On Monday, a bench headed by the Chief Justice of India Justice Altamas Kabir had stayed their execution till today.
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