KL Report

Srinagar

Hours after the media released the former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in which he had demanded that the body of 2001 Parliament Attack convict Afzal Guru must be returned to his family, J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah said that he too had made a similar demand to the PM.

“I had hoped to avoid playing politics with the body of Afzal Guru but that seems to be impossible to avoid with the Mufti Sayeed letter now,” he wrote of micro-blogging site Twitter on Tuesday evening.

“I had written to the PM on the 19th of this month asking for the return of the bodies of both Afzal Guru & Maqbool Bhatt to their families. I followed this up with a visit to the PM to make the request in person a few days ago. My Govt will continue to raise this issue with Delhi,” Omar said.

“I am writing to you not to seek any concessions for the state but am suggesting a way out to restore to some extent the prestige lost by the country in the entire sequence of events around the hanging,” Mufti wrote to PM.

Meawnhile an official spokesman said in his letter to Prime Minister sent on February 19, Omar Abdullah had strongly pleaded, handing over the mortal remains of Afzal Guru to his family.

Given the strong sentiments attached to the treatment meted out to Afzal Guru’s family especially the denial of a last chance to meet their loved one before his execution and the denial of a judicial review of the case, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah told the Prime Minister that least the Government of India can do in this matter, is to return the remains to his family.

Recognizing the similarity between both the cases of   Afzal Guru   and Mohammad Maqbool Bhat, the Chief Minister also asked for return of the remains of Maqbool Bhat which has been an unresolved issue and a long pending demand of his family ever since his execution in 1984.

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