Afzal Guru’s file goes to home ministry
By IANSFriday, June 4, 2010
NEW DELHI - Delhi Lt. Governor Tejendra Khanna has sent to the home ministry the file on parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s mercy petition, an official in the Raj Bhawan said Friday.
“The file has been sent to the home ministry,” the official told IANS.
The Delhi government had sent the file to the Lt. Governor May 19 after giving clarifications sought by his office.
A resident of Sopore in the Kashmir Valley, Guru was found guilty of plotting the Dec 13, 2001 parliament attack and sentenced to death in 2002. The Delhi High Court confirmed the death penalty in 2003.
The Supreme Court also upheld the capital punishment. Guru’s wife Tabassum filed a mercy petition to the president after the apex court verdict.
The president sought the home ministry’s views on the mercy petition in 2005.
