New Delhi, May 26: With the decision on his mercy petition prolonging, Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has moved an application in Supreme Court seeking early disposal of his case, saying solitary confinement was worse than death.
Afzal has moved an application in the apex court in March seeking an early decision on his mercy petition which is pending with the government for the past four years, his lawyer N D Pancholi said.
During his last meeting with Afzal last week in Tihar jail, Pancholi told PTI that the convict had told him that what he was “facing now is worse than death”.
The death row convict has said he was “fed up with the solitary confinement” and the “delay” in deciding on his mercy petition, Pancholi said.
–Agencies