Current Affairs Question - 10 November 2020

Explanation :

• Article 161 deals with the Pardoning Power of the Governor.
• The Governor can grant pardons, reprieves, respites and remissions of punishments or suspend, remit and commute the sentence of any person convicted of any offence against any law relating to a matter to which the executive power of the state extends.

Difference between pardoning powers of the President and the Governor

• The Governor cannot Pardon a Death Sentence but the President can Pardon a Death Sentence.
• The Governor can only suspend, remit or commute a death sentence.
• The Governor cannot grant pardon, reprieve, respite, suspension, remission or commutation in respect to punishment or sentence by a court-martial. But the President can do so.