Srinagar: Awami Ittihaad Party (AIP) President and MLA Langate Er Sheikh Rashid today said Ministry of Home Affairs move rejecting the demand that Afzal Guru’s remains be exhumed and returned to his family termed the same as a travesty of justice and paragon of inhuman standards.
In a statement Rashid alleged, It is quiet inhuman and barbaric that Ministry of Home Affairs is maintaining its inhuman stand that Afzal Guru’s remains cannot be handed over to his family as he was buried, as per jail manual, in an unmarked grave. It looks eminently clear from the stand that there are many chances that Afzal Guru body has been cremated rather than buried.
The refusal to hand over even mortal remains of dead human being speaks volumes of insensitivity and chances are they might have immediately after death of Afzal Guru burned his dead body which is gross violation of the religious norms. Now remains a question that Was Afzal Guru cremated or buried? he asked.
Rashid observed that after the written commitment by PDP MLA’s to bring back the mortal remains of Afzal Guru it is high time that Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed writes to Union Home Ministry to hand over mortal remains of Afzal Guru as MHA has stated that it has so far received no written communication in this regard.
The return of mortal remains of late Afzal Guru is a humanitarian issue and it is unprecedented in the history of civilized nations to imprison the mortal remains of dead and does not suit democratic credentials. Guru and his burial in the New Delhis Tihar jail and refusal to even handover mortal remains was and will remain a black spot on the democratic face of India, which claims to be the largest democracy of the world, the MLA added.
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