New Delhi, August 23: The file containing the mercy petition
of 2001 Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru, who is
facing death sentence in the case, is yet to reach President
Pratibha Devisingh Patil.
President’s Secretariat has revealed this information in response
to an RTI application filed by a journalist Aman Sharma.
The mercy petition was forwarded to Union Home Ministry by
Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Tejendra Khanna in June this year with
the recommendation that the plea may be rejected and the terrorist
should be hanged till death.
–Agencies