JUDGMENT

ORDER:— This Court has received from the Rajasthan High court a certified copy of an order dated 11-12-1985 passed by the same Bench which made the earlier order for execution of death sentence by public hanging at the Stadium Ground or Ramlila Ground of Jaipur after giving widespread publicity - through the media - of the date, time and place of such execution. The Bench has, by this order dated 11th December, 1985, directed that the execution of the death sentence should be carried out "in terms of the procedure provided in the rules mentioned above in the Jail Manual only, unless by that time any amendment is made in the Rules". It is clear from this order dated 11th December, 1985 that it is only because the Jail Rules do not provide for execution of death sentence by public hanging that the Bench appears to have been constrained to revoke the order directing execution of the death sentence by public hanging and that is why the Bench seems to have said that the death sentence should not be carried out by public hanging unless by the time the death sentence comes to be executed. any amendment is made in the Rules by the State Government providing public hanging. It is n