V.R.KRISHNA IYER, J.

(1) THE petitioners held to be murderers by the court and sentenced to death, having regard to the bloodcurdling ruthlessness of the guilt, crossed over from the jurisdiction of courts to the clemency zone of the President under Article 72. This last-chance-to-live appeal for mercy by men who mercilessly killed, allegedly driven by the humanist urge for catalysing social justice through terrorist technology, found no compassionate response. The refusal of the President to commute the death sentence rushed the petitioners back to the High court to save their life thrugh the courts writ. Rejection by that court has compelled them to seek judicial sanctuary in the Supreme court, as the final scene of the Fifth Act of the tragic drama is drawing near.

(2) SHRI Garg has grounded his arguments on two socio-legal basics. A politically motivated offence committed by the two frustrated men who were disenchanted by the die-hard injustice of massive suffering and suppression, to shock and shake the custodians of the status quo ante, stands on a separate footing from the common run of crimes and the root humanity of their ruthless inhumanity, t