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PANJIM: If Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru were handed over to the Goa government, they would have been “hung properly”, putting the country on notice, a minister here said.
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“The central government should have publicly said that they these are the people who attacked the country and hung them no matter what anyone says. Or they should have handed them over to the Goa government. We would have hung them properly,” Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar said while commenting on the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s “inability” to counter terror threats in the light of the twin bomb blasts in Hyderabad on Thursday evening.
“Look at the bombing in Hyderabad. It only goes to show that the central government neither has the power nor the will to curb terrorism,” Parulekar said on Friday.
“Why were we told about Kasab’s death after the hanging? And of Afzal Guru… they have let down the country by doing this,” the tourism minister added.
Parulekar also said that the families of those who died during the terror attacks had been betrayed by the hangings of Kasab and Guru which were conducted in secrecy.
Kasab was one of the main accused in the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai and was hung from the gallows at the Yerwada jail near Pune in November 21 last year.
On February 9, Afzal Guru was hung till death at the Tihar jail in New Delhi and buried near his solitary cell. He was sentenced to death for his role in the attack on parliament in December 13, 2001.
