Afzal case will have impact in J&K: Dilip Padgaonkar!

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New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir interlocutor Dilip Padgaonkar says a decision on 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's case could have repercussions in the Valley. Padgaonkar has drawn a parallel with the hanging of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front founder Maqbool Bhatt.

"I am principally opposed to capital punishment. But if the country's highest court has convicted him and given him the death penalty that has to be respected. We saw the kind of reaction in the Valley to the Maqbool Bhatt episode, so one can only speculate what kind of a reaction this would have," said Padgaonkar.

The Central Government is understood to have recommended to President Pratibha Patil to reject the clemency petition of Afzal Guru. The move could pave the way for the likely hanging of Afzal, an issue that has already generated much controversy.

Six years after Afzal appealed to the President of India to commute his death penalty, the Ministry of Home Affairs sent its opinion on August 10, 2011. Minister of State for Home Mullapally Ramachandran on Wednesday informed the Rajya Sabha that the letter has gone to the President on July 27.

Sources in the Home Ministry said, Afzal Guru, who is guilty of attacking Parliament in December 2001, should not be pardoned. Sources say the report is mainly about Afzal's role in attack and nature of crime he committed.

It's also says no grounds of mercy on the basis of health/family are made out.

The 8-10 page report includes trial court, High Court and Supreme Court orders as well as Delhi Lieutenant Governor's report on law and order situation after Afzal's execution.

01) Despite India having been a professed peace-loving Nation, the others haven't stopped perpetrating terror on the innocent citizens of India!

02) It is the likes of Padgaonkar, who have always been a hindrance to our Government taking a tough stand against Terrorists - irrespective of their religion, region, etc.!!

03) If we have to send a stern warning to the Terrorists that they will not be spared, we need to show no mercy on the likes of Afzal Guru who has been the conspirator of that heinous terror attack on our Parliament Building and in the bargain killing many innocent citizens of India!!!

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http://ibnlive.in.com/news/afzal-case-will-have-impact-in-jk-padgaonkar/174916-3.html

BJP wants President to reject Afzal Guru’s mercy plea as well!

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It says delay on Guru’s pleas harms the secular fabric of the country

G Vishnu / New Delhi / Tehelka.

Price of failure Afzal Guru, on the way to the court that gave him the death sentence.

The rejection of the mercy pleas of Devinder Pal Singh and Mahendra Nath Das by President Pratibha Patil on Thursday seems to have reminded the BJP of an issue it seemed to have forgotten. The party returned to the earlier rhetoric, demanding that the mercy plea of Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru be rejected.

Guru's petition was first rejected by the Supreme Court on August 4, 2005. The second petition was rejected on May 14, 2008. “If terrorist Afzal Guru had managed to enter Parliament [on September 13, 2001], the entire political leadership would have been killed,” said BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad. “Doesn't deliberate, conscious delay of decision on Afzal Guru amount to destruction of the secular fabric [of the country]?” he asked, connecting the issue to Clause 3 of the Communal Violence Bill.

Issues of this nature should not be politicised.  Delaying decisions amount to delaying justice, willfully.  As Afzal Guru has waged against India and almost succeeded in eliminating our Political Leaders in Parliament, he should be hanged, without any considerations.

Presidential pardons should be given to those who have done a crime of passion but not those who schemed against nation.

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http://tehelka.com/story_main49.asp?filename=Ws270511POLITICS.asp