Having slept over the file for years,the government is now finding time to recommend the hanging of Afzal Guru, the perpetrator of Indian parliament attack.
It has come at a time when the Government is besieged with scandals galore,
2G,ISRO,CWG,Adarsh,Cash for Money et al.
BJP which has been raising these issues is likely to keep quiet on the above issues as BJP will take credit for this recommendation, conveniently forgetting it also slept on this file as on Black money stashed abroad.
Some deal,some Value based Politics!
Minister of state for home Mullappally Ramachandran told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that Afzal’s mercy plea was submitted to the president’s secretariat on July 27. Officials confirmed that home minister P Chidambaram had backed lieutenant-governor Tejinder Khanna’s view, rejecting the mercy petition.
Delhi court had on December 18, 2002 sentenced Guru, and two others to death. Subsequently, SAR Geelani, a DU college lecturer, was acquitted and Shaukat Hussain Guru, Afzal’s cousin, was let off after 10 years in jail.
The ministry’s move may not mean that Guru will be hanged immediately. The President recently rejected mercy pleas of DPS Bhullar for planting a bomb outside the Youth Congress office in 1993 and Mahendra Nath Das for killing a man.
These two cases were the first time that Patil had rejected mercy pleas. Her predecessor, APJ Abdul Kalam, had reluctantly rejected the mercy plea of Bengal resident Dhananjoy Chatterjee, who had raped and killed a young girl.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Government-rejects-Afzal-Guru-s-mercy-petition/Article1-731777.aspx
