Even as the Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of three convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Union Minister Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday said the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was "absolutely unjustified".
"They never asked us, they did not tell us, they just hanged him... It was absolutely unjustified," he told reporters outside Parliament. Hailing the Supreme Court judgment, he said, "Governmental delay or otherwise why do you hang them... Death sentences should not be used and life sentence is the right thing. They are doing it all over the civilised world and I think what they have done in India is also following the same convention of the civilised world."
The SC commuted the death sentence of three condemned prisoners in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to life imprisonment on the ground that there was already an 11-year delay in deciding their mercy plea by the Centre.