• Pardoning power of the President includes the following- • Governor can also grant pardons, reprieves, respites

o Pardon- it removes both the sentence and the conviction and remission of punishment or suspend, remit and
and completely absolves the convict from all sentences, commute the sentence of any person convicted of
punishments and disqualifications. any offence against a state law.
o Commutation- It denotes the substitution of one form of • However, the governor can suspend, remit or
punishment for a lighter form. commute a death sentence.
o Remission- It implies reducing the period of sentence
without changing its character.
o Respite- It denotes awarding a lesser sentence in place of
one originally awarded due to some special fact, such as
the physical and disability of a convict or the pregnancy
of a woman offender.
o Reprieve- It implies a stay of the execution of a sentence
(especially that of death) for a temporary period.

1.4. REGISTERED UNRECOGNIZED PARTIES

Why in News?
Recently, a report by Association for Democratic Reforms (NGO) presented several findings on registered
unrecognised political parties (RUPP).

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