The Home Ministry is understood to have recommended to President Pratibha Patil that she reject the mercy plea of Mohammad Afzal Guru, who was convicted of conspiracy in the case of the attack on the Parliament House in December 2001.
“The mercy petition… of the death convict, Mohd. Afzal Guru, has since been submitted to the President's Secretariat on July 27, 2011, for a decision,” Minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply on Wednesday. The question was posed by Prakash Javadekar of the BJP.
Afzal Guru's death sentence was confirmed by the Delhi High Court and upheld by the Supreme Court in 2004. His execution, scheduled for October 20, 2006, was stayed on a mercy petition filed by his wife.
In its recommendation, the Home Ministry is believed to have cited the Delhi government's recommendation and that of the Delhi Lt. Governor, who also favoured the execution of Afzal Guru, who has remained a death row prisoner in the Tihar Jail for the past seven years.
Asked whether there is any provision under the Constitution for deciding on any “clemency petition” against the capital punishment as per the sequence of its submission, Mr. Ramachandran replied in the negative. “It was an administrative decision to ensure fair and urgent treatment of all cases.”
Meanwhile, Congress spokesman Rashid Alvi told journalists that it was not proper to say anything on issues referred to the President.
See this is not the solution to it. Attack on Parliament was a shameful deed but impalement should not be the consequence for it. The culprits are needed to be transformed through other instruments to avoid such evils and to mark a permanent end to crimes.....
Him and his ilk should be made to realize in no uncertain terms that if you dare wage war on India and its people, you are playing with fire. We may be the Mahatma's children, but we certainly are no bleeding hearts. We know how to fight fire with fire.
This case brings to mind the saying - "When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth"
This man came from Hell to unleash terror on India and its people
Send him back to where he came from!
That's the power of the people of India
No matter how strong or repressive the enemy is, we will one day visit upon the enemy the same horror as retribution.
It is a pity that such a simple decision has been kept pending since 10 years. That Mohd. Afzal Guru is a deserving candidate for the capital punishment does not need any justification or further consideration in view of his video-recorded statement (by Aaj Tak news channel) from behind the bars after his arrest wherein he conveyed that if he was given another chance/life to repeat a heinous crime like the Parliament attack, he would proudly do so without any remorse. By not rendering a quick decision & strong message to perpetrators of such crimes, we definitely give out signals about the State's indecisiveness & inaction towards perhaps its most important duty of the protection of its citizens. And no wonder, we are then labelled as a "soft-state"!
It's a brilliant decision. These people are just a black spot on society.Mercy is for human being.
Late decision. but the best decision.
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