CHENNAI: The execution of Afzal Guru, the second high-voltage hanging in three months, has sent shivers down the spine of advocates involved in a last-ditch legal battle to save the three death convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case - Murugan, Perarivalan and Santhan.
Decrying the secrecy shrouding the operation, which started when the President rejected Afzal's mercy petition on February 3, advocate and former special public prosecutor of the human rights court here, V Kannadasan, said the state should not deprive anyone of their right to exhaust legal remedies available to them. Had the rejection been duly communicated to Afzal, he would have challenged the validity of the rejection order which had come more than 11 years later.
Decrying the secrecy shrouding the operation, which started when the President rejected Afzal's mercy petition on February 3, advocate and former special public prosecutor of the human rights court here, V Kannadasan, said the state should not deprive anyone of their right to exhaust legal remedies available to them. Had the rejection been duly communicated to Afzal, he would have challenged the validity of the rejection order which had come more than 11 years later.
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