Law has taken its course in Parliament attack case: Sheila Dikshit

Last Updated: Saturday, February 09, 2013, 21:37

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New Delhi: Law of the country has taken its course in the 2001 Parliament attack case, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said reacting to execution of convict Mohammed Afzal Guru on on Saturday.

The Delhi government in May 2010 had cleared Guru's mercy petition file endorsing capital punishment to him.

"The law of the country has taken its course," Dikshit said.

The MHA had sought opinion of the Delhi Government as the comments of the government of the state where the crime has been committed are asked before deciding a mercy petition.

The Delhi government was sitting on the file for nearly four years before clearing it on May 19, 2010.

The mercy plea of 43-year-old Guru, who was sentenced to death in 2002 by a special court which was later upheld by the Supreme Court in 2005, was rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee on February 3.

Guru, a medical college dropout and resident of Sopore in North Kashmir, was executed at 8 AM in Tihar Jail and buried inside the prison premises in a secret operation.

PTI

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First Published: Saturday, February 09, 2013, 21:37

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Marisol - Canada
Your government, with its history of ineptitude and complacency, has allowed these monstrous atrocities to continue for decades. In NOT dealing harshly with these heinous sexual crimes against women and children long before now, you have perpetuated the infestation of your country with a plague of depraved, savage, vile, barbaric rapists who commit violent, atrocious, evil sexual crimes against women, children, and babies! WHERE IS YOUR SHAME?? Nobody actually likes the idea of capital punishment, but, as long as officials such as yourself continue to minimize and trivialize the nature of these abhorrent, vile acts by inadequate punishment to this evil scourge, these atrocities will continue unabated, and your country will remain a third world country, with half of its population free to continue perpetuating their heinous, depraved, savage sexual crimes against women and children with impunity. SHAME ON YOU and shame on all of you who accept and practice this misogynistic, patriarchal attitude towards women!!

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karmik - Canada
Yes, that seldom happens in India. The Law is still charting its course about the 1984 Anti Sikh riots perpetrated under congress. 20 years are over already............................Karmik