Amid concerns that Ajmal Kasabs hanging may be delayed like many others who were awarded death sentence,the government on Tuesday said the matter would be fast-tracked and he may be hanged by the year-end. Referring to Kasabs death penalty, Law Minister Veerappa Moily said cases of these kind could always be fast-tracked whether it was in the High Court or in the Supreme Court. Moily was quoted as saying by a TV channel that even the President would speed up the process and Kasab would be hanged soon. A similar statement came from home secretary G K Pillai. If there is no petition from him challenging the sessions court verdict in the higher court, he can be hanged by the year-end, Pillai was quoted by a news agency. Kasab was awarded capital punishment on May 6 by a Mumbai special court which held him guilty of mass murder and waging war against India, by carrying out the terror strikes in November 2008.
The death sentence to Kasab has to be confirmed by the Bombay High Court where the matter would come up automatically. Kasab will,however,have right to appeal the high courts view in the Supreme Court and subsequently file a mercy petition before the President of India. Many convicts, including Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru, have taken this route and thereby have been spared of being hanged for years. On being asked about the status of Afzal Gurus mercy petition, the home secretary said, it is with the government for consideration.
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A non-Muslim girl has to convert to marry a Muslim: HC
The Allahabad High Court has ruled that a non-Muslim bride must convert to Islam to marry a Muslim. Failing that, the marriage would be void as it would contradict Islamic dicta and tenets of Holy Quran, the court said. The ruling on Monday by a division bench comprising Justices Vinod Prasad and Rajesh Chandra, came on a writ petition filed by Dilbar Habib Siddiqui. The petitioner had sought quashing of an FIR registered against him on March 17 under Sections 323, 366 and 363 of IPC in Allahabad and prayed that the court not interfere in his peaceful matrimonial life with Khushboo Jaiswal.
The primary question for adjudication was whether the FIR could be quashed or not. The FIR was filed by the girls mother, Sunita Jaiswal, who alleged that the petitioner had abducted her daughter. She contended that Khushboo never converted to Islam and there was no documentary evidence to suggest so. In our above conclusion we are fortified by the fact that in the affidavit and application filed by Khusboo herself, subsequent to her alleged contract marriage, she has described herself as Khushboo and not by any Islamic name. As Khushboo, she could not have entered into marriage, according to Muslim customs. In those referred documents she has addressed herself as Khushboo Jaiswal daughter of Rajesh Jaiswal, the verdict said. Thus, what is conspicuously clear is that Khushboo Jaiswal never converted and embraced Islam and therefore her marital tie with the petitioner Dilbar Habib Siddiqui is void since the same is contrary to Islamic dicta and tenets of Holy Quran, the court ruled.
The judges directed a speedy probe into the marriage of Siddiqui and ordered the separate Khushboo cops to Jaiswal, who was lodged in Nari Niketan, and hand her over to her parents. The HC further observed that the petitioner had suppressed relevant material in the court: that he was already married and had three children from that wedlock. Dealing with the issue of bigamy, it ruled: We are of the view that such a religious mandate (marrying more than one) has been given to all Muslims for a greater social purpose. If a Muslim man is not capable of fostering his wife and children then he cannot be allowed the liberty to marry other women as that will be against the said Sura 4, Ayat-3.
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