Posted on May 11, 2010 at 16:48
Jammu: The law should "take its own course" in the hanging of Afzal Guru, the mastermind of the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday.
"Let the law take its own course. He has gone in for an appeal and his name figures at number 30, let's first talk about 29 who are in line before him," Abdullah told reporters in Nagrota, 13 km from here, after addressing a rally of ex-servicemen.
"Why bring his name all the time and give a hype to it... simply because his name is too glamorous?" he asked the reporter who had posed a question.
Afzal Guru, a resident of Sopore in the Kashmir Valley, was found guilty of plotting the terror attack on the Indian parliament on December 13, 2001. The Supreme Court upheld his death sentence in October 2006.
Afzal Guru, whose mercy petition is pending before President Pratibha Patil, was again in the spotlight after a Mumbai court last week sentenced Pakistani national Ajmal Amir Kasab to death for his role in the November 2008 terror attack in Mumbai.
Kashmiri leaders fear that Afzal Guru's hanging could destabilise the situation in the valley.
Why can't all awaiting death row be hanged on the same day or within a few days? Omar Abdullah in saying that Afzal is at number 30, is making it seem that it will be a long long time before Afzal is hanged. The law should be forthwith be amended to ensure that those cleared for hanging should be hanged within less than 48 hours. Then this carp about trying to keep Afzal alive any which way would end.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/dont-hang-afzal-out-of-turn-omar-abdullah/115073-3.html?from=rhs
Jammu: The law should "take its own course" in the hanging of Afzal Guru, the mastermind of the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday.
"Let the law take its own course. He has gone in for an appeal and his name figures at number 30, let's first talk about 29 who are in line before him," Abdullah told reporters in Nagrota, 13 km from here, after addressing a rally of ex-servicemen.
"Why bring his name all the time and give a hype to it... simply because his name is too glamorous?" he asked the reporter who had posed a question.
Afzal Guru, a resident of Sopore in the Kashmir Valley, was found guilty of plotting the terror attack on the Indian parliament on December 13, 2001. The Supreme Court upheld his death sentence in October 2006.
Afzal Guru, whose mercy petition is pending before President Pratibha Patil, was again in the spotlight after a Mumbai court last week sentenced Pakistani national Ajmal Amir Kasab to death for his role in the November 2008 terror attack in Mumbai.
Kashmiri leaders fear that Afzal Guru's hanging could destabilise the situation in the valley.
Why can't all awaiting death row be hanged on the same day or within a few days? Omar Abdullah in saying that Afzal is at number 30, is making it seem that it will be a long long time before Afzal is hanged. The law should be forthwith be amended to ensure that those cleared for hanging should be hanged within less than 48 hours. Then this carp about trying to keep Afzal alive any which way would end.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/dont-hang-afzal-out-of-turn-omar-abdullah/115073-3.html?from=rhs
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