SRINAGAR: An independent legislator has sought Jammu & Kashmir assembly speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone's permission for tabling a resolution seeking pardon for Parliament-attack convict Afzal Guru.
Abdul Rashid Sheikh told TOI that he sent a copy of the resolution to the speaker's secretary late last month. "Criminals need reformation and correction and I want the state assembly to pass the resolution for Guru with this spirit,'' he said. "It is merely a human problem and should be dealt with humanely."
"Let the house resolve that Afzal Gooru (sic) be granted amnesty on humanitarian grounds against the death sentence granted to him by the Supreme Court of India,'' said Sheikh in his resolution. Sheikh said he was hopeful that the speaker would allow the resolution to be tabled and offer relief to Guru.
A 10-day assembly session would begin later in September.
CM Omar Abdullah had stirred a hornet's nest with his tweet that a J&K assembly resolution seeking clemency for Guru on the lines of Tamil Nadu legislature's mercy plea for Rajiv Gandhi's assassins would have created an uproar. Omar's comment on twitter came a day after the TN assembly passed a resolution urging President to reconsider the mercy plea of Rajiv's killers facing death sentence.
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