ALL INDIA MUSLIM
MAJLIS-E-MUSHAWARAT
[Umbrella body of the Indian
Muslim
organisations]
D-250, Abul Fazal Enclave, Jamia Nagar
New Delhi-110025 India
Tel.: 011-26946780 Fax: 011-26947346
Email: mushawarat@mushawarat.com Web: www.mushawarat.com
Mushawarat condemns
Afzal Guru’s hasty, unjustified
execution
New Delhi, 9 February, 2013:
Dr. Zafarul-Islam
Khan, President of All India
Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (AIMMM), the umbrella body of
Indian Muslim organizations,
said here today in a press statement that Afzal Guru's
execution this
morning was legally and morally unjustified and hasty. Guru did
not get a fair
trial in the first place. His repeated assertions that he was
sent to Delhi from Srinagar by a certain
named police officer in Srinagar
were never heard or probed. At best, he was a secondary player.
He did not take
part in the actual attack. The final verdict too had other
considerations as the
Supreme Court itself said in its verdict, “The incident, which
resulted in
heavy casualties, had shaken the entire nation and the
collective conscience of
the society will only be satisfied if capital punishment is
awarded to the
offender.”
Dr Khan further
said that it has
been known to the political class and the media for years that
the public
opinion in the Valley is enraged by this trial and the verdict
and there is
real risk of the revival of militancy as a result of Guru’s
execution. As such,
I think it was reckless on the part of the Indian government to
have taken this
highly risky, hasty and dubious step which is akin to the
execution in 1983 of
Maqbool Bhat on a crime committed by others thousands of miles
away in Britain
but the hasty execution eventually led to ignite the militancy
in the Valley of
Kashmir.
Dr Khan added that
today’s
reckless act is part of the political game Congress is playing
to outdo
VHP/BJP's Hindutva and security planks. This also shows that a
rank politician
should never be elevated to the position of the President of
India. We condemn
this execution and consider it short-sighted and hasty.
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