Death row controversy: Digvijay lobs Afzal case into BJP court

It appears that there was something wrong with either the Union Home Ministry,led by P Chidambaram,or the President’s house because of which no decision is taken on mercy petitions and they remain hanging for a long time,Singh said.

Of late the BJP has been charging the Congress with dilly-dallying on the issue of executing the death sentence to Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru,he said,adding,”if my memory served me right,not a single mercy petition was decided even when senior BJP leader L K Advani was the Home Minister for six years.”

Singh said even mercy petitions of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s killers had not been decided yet.