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The Delhi High Court connected Wednesday declined to entertain a plea seeking removal of the graves of Mohammad Afzal Guru and Mohammad Maqbool Bhatt from the Tihar Jail premises.
A Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela allowed the petitioners to retreat the plea and treated it arsenic “dismissed arsenic withdrawn”.
“For approaching the tribunal for a alleviation successful a PIL, you person to amusement america usurpation of law rights, cardinal rights oregon statutory rights. No instrumentality oregon regularisation prohibits cremation oregon burial wrong the jailhouse premises,” the Bench observed.
Bhatt, convicted of coercion charges, was executed successful 1984, portion Guru was hanged successful February 2013 aft being sentenced to decease successful the 2001 Parliament onslaught case.
The plea, filed by Vishwa Vedic Sanatan Sangh and Jitendra Singh, argued that the graves’ beingness was “illegal, unconstitutional, and against nationalist interest”, claiming they had turned the jailhouse into a tract of “radical pilgrimage”.
While agreeing that “there should beryllium nary pilgrimage oregon glorification”, the Bench said immoderate bid indispensable beryllium based connected grounds that radical were visiting the graves to wage homage.
The plea further contended that the beingness of the graves violated the Delhi Prisons Rules, 2018, which mandate disposal of bodies of executed prisoners successful a mode that prevents glorification, ensures situation discipline, and maintains nationalist order.
