My sacred view!

Let him repent!

A Freedom fighter masterminded the attack on parliament, an act which would go down in the annals of history, later he confessed it and was trialed under law. “The judgment day” pronounced him to be hanged till death. People at his homeland came down on streets against the judgment and a revolt was ignited. Petitions for clemency where filed but turned down. He was born as a slave but died as a martyr.
I was just recalling our very own Bhagat Singh but alas! Many thought it to be Mr. Afzal Guru. Yes, it’s true that through capital punishment we are creating a martyr out of a terrorist. We must be prudent enough not to throw the baby along with the bath water, let not the decision bounce back upon us in the long run. It could be devastating. Terrorists don’t respect lives, neither of others nor their own, so won’t it be heartening for them if we give them what they utmost desire for? Decapitating someone is “slashing and relieving”, but what could be more torturous for someone to live to feel the pain, Mr. Guru owe us a lifelong imprisonment. I read the previous day an article stating that it would be demoralizing for the soldiers “who risk their breath for us to breath”, but I disagree to this interpretation of the consequence, I believe that the soldiers would well comply with the decision of life imprisonment for who could better understand how it feels to be locked up in enemy’s territory.
Mr. Khushwant Singh has very well written an article against capital punishment for Mr. Guru. He wishes to see him live and wash the faeces of fellow prisoners. That would be most appropriate for the one like him, who do not value the human life would begin to value their faeces in fourteen years. Perhaps weeping incognito in solitary would force him repent his deeds. Also when we are hell bent in imitating developed nations in every aspect why shouldn’t we agree upon in this case. I recollect a punishment awarded to a United States prisoner who was proven guilty of hijacking an airbus and killing a passenger. He has been punished to live in a dark room with hole not even good enough to peep out, and as the only source of light in the room. He is allowed to warm under the sun once a week and that too just for five minutes. I feel if we are able to award Mr. Guru a rigorous imprisonment it would be a little tribute to all the nine people who has been irrevocably punished, having been found guilty of being brave.
As for the aforesaid analog between Bhagat Singh and Mr. Guru, though it sounds synonymous it’s as deceiving as Mr. Guru himself. Bhagat Singh did attack the parliament but with a harmless weapon and everybody escaped unhurt as intended by him while Mr. Guru’s heinous plan claimed nine innocent lives. Bhagat Singh and his partner never attempted to defend their own lives while Mr. Afzal never dared to be in person at the den to fight us, and above all Bhagat Singh was successful in his attempts while Mr. Guru Plan fell dead at our parliament doors.