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Chatterjee, whose mercy plea was rejected on August 4 , was kept at Alipore for nearly 14 years. The execution was scheduled on June 25 , but it was stayed after his family petitioned the Supreme Court Of India , and filed a mercy plea with President Abdul Kalam . The family refused to either attend the execution or claim his body; it was later Cremated .

The date of Chatterjee's execution was fixed at a high-level meeting at the office of Jail Minister Biswanath Choudhury. This was the first hanging at Alipore since 1993, when murder convicts, Kartik Sil and Sukumar Burman , were hanged. It was the first execution in India since 1995.


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