The centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court it was considering to seek a review of the court's verdict holding that inordinate delay in deciding mercy petitions by the president and insanity were the grounds for courts to commute death sentences to life imprisonment.

This was stated to the bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Shiva Kirti Singh by Additional Solicitor General Siddhartha Luthra.