New Delhi, May 17: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit expressed ignorance over the letter sent by the Union Home Ministry, asking for her government’s opinion on the mercy petition filed by Afzal Guru, the Parliament attack convict who is in the death row.
“I have not received any letter (from Home Ministry). May be the Home Department (of the Delhi government received it),” she told reporters.
Dikshit, who herself is in charge of the Home Department, was responding to questions over a media report that the Union Home Ministry had sent a reminder letter to Delhi government
asking it to give at the earliest its comments on the mercy petition of Guru, who is on the death row.
Home Department officials refused to comment.
According to the report, the reminder was sent on April 29. Earlier, the Union Home Ministry had sent a letter last year, it said.
—Agencies