What is the President's power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites, or remissions of punishment?
Article 72 of the Indian Constitution grants the President the power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment, or to suspend, remit or commute the sentence of any person convicted of any offence, in cases where the punishment or sentence is by a Court Martial, for an offence against any law relating to a matter to which the executive power of the Union extends, or where the sentence is a sentence of death.