When the new President is elected tomorrow, among the uncleared files that will be on his table are the mercy petitions of 16 convicts including Mohammad Afzal Guru, convicted for the terrorist attack on Parliament in December 2001. While outgoing President Pratibha Patil decided on 39 mercy petitions involving 21 cases from November 2009 to June 2012, she has left 11 cases for her successor.