In which of the following cases, the Supreme Court of India set out the guidelines for safeguarding the…

Shatrughan Chauhan laid down safeguards specifically for death-row prisoners, including written communication of rejection of mercy petitions, access to legal aid, mental-health assessment and a minimum fourteen-day interval before execution after communication of the mercy rejection. Sunil Batra concerns wider prison rights, while Mithu invalidated mandatory death punishment under section 303.

Current law: The BNSS now provides a statutory mercy-petition procedure in section 472. The existence of that procedure does not erase the constitutional safeguards recognized in Shatrughan Chauhan.