Soon after Yakub Memon was hanged, politician Shashi Tharoor stirred an uncharitable controversy by saying, “Cold-blooded execution has never prevented a terror attack anywhere.” He added that the practice of death penalty is questionable. Is Mr Tharoor not aware of the fact that the Supreme Court was opened in the dead of night and that three judges were preparing at 3.00am to decide whether to entertain a down-to-the-wire plea to postpone the hanging of Yakub MemonIJ
In India, we seem to politicise everything. Such misplaced sympathies will unwittingly brainwash the minorities about the alleged double standards of the Indian justice system. Even the BJP is being dragged into this controversy. So long as death penalty is on the statute book, there can be little objection if the State goes ahead to implement the death sentence.