New Delhi: Amid the debate over death penalty following the execution of terrorist Yakub Memon, the government on Friday said that there was no proposal to scrap the maximum punishment, adding that there was need for a wider consultation over the issue.
The debate on death penalty has been revived with 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon's hanging. From political leaders to the common man, people are divided on whether death penalty acts as a deterrent for the others.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday had tweeted that he was saddened by the news that the government hanged a human being. While he added that he was not commenting on the merits of a specific case, like Memon’s, he said that he was against the concept of death sentence.
Terming the execution of Yakub as "miscarriage of justice", CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury had said that India should join other nations and scrap the death penalty.
Claiming that the decision to execute Memon was right, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shahnawaz Hussain said, "What was the fault of those people who died in the Mumbai blasts? Law ensures that guilty are punished and innocent don't."
Memon was executed early on Thursday morning on his 53rd birthday after he exhausted all legal options to appeal against his death penalty.
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