Dear Comrades,
In a new twist, a top officer of the Jammu and Kashmir Postal
Department on Monday said a letter from Delhi addressed to the wife of
Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged on Saturday,
was delivered this morning.
The letter, booked from GPO New Delhi, was received in Srinagar GPO
on February 9, the day Guru was hanged, Chief Post Master General of
Jammu and Kashmir Circle John Samuel said.
"Since Sunday is a public holiday, the letter was delivered this morning," Samuel said.
A
controversy had erupted on Sunday over the purported communication from
the Centre to the family of Guru about the decision to hang him on
Saturday with the family alleging they had come to know about his
hanging from TV channels.
Though Union Home Secretary RK Singh had
said that the family of Guru was sent a communication through
speedpost, the family claimed having not received any such communication
raising questions as to whether there was a serious effort to inform
the family.
"Guru's family was informed about the decision of the
Government that his mercy petition has been rejected. This was done
through speedpost," Singh had said.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah
had questioned the rationale of informing Guru's family through post
saying the reliability of the medium itself was questionable.
"If
we are going to inform someone by post that his family member is going
to be hanged, there is something seriously wrong with the system," he
had said.
Samuel said the family of the deceased cooperated with the postal staff who went to deliver the letter.
The
officer, however, said he was not sure whether it was the letter sent
from the central government to inform Guru's family about the execution.
The
family of the deceased refused to talk to media on the matter, saying
they were still in mourning and would not like to comment.
DNA INDIA.COM
