Today,
Rajya Sabha unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the grant of bail to
Mumbai attack mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi.
The House asked Pakistan to ensure that no perpetrator of any terrorist
activity goes unpunished. Chairperson Hamid Ansari said the House expresses its
grave concern at the numerous delays in the prosecution of Lakhvi and the
apathetic attitude of the Government of Pakistan, which resulted in the grant
of bail to him. He said the House also notes that the bail was granted just one
day after the tragic killing of 145 children and other persons in Peshawar in a
terrorist attack.
The
House called upon the Government of Pakistan to proceed strongly with its
declared intention to appeal against the bail judgement, and ensure that no
perpetrator of any terrorist activity be allowed to go unpunished and the
infrastructure of terrorism in that country is dismantled immediately. Earlier a day after Pakistan's Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif pledged to root out terrorism and lifted a ban on the death
penalty in terror cases, an anti-terror court in Islamabad has granted bail to
Lakhvi saying the prosecution has been unable to provide evidence against him.
Lakhvi was among seven people arrested in the Mumbai attacks trial in Pakistan
in 2009.
India can never forget 26/11 when the
Nation was under siege by militants from across the border. On 21st Nov 2012, - Ajmal Kasab, the living face of Mumbai terror was hanged, almost 4 years after that incident that shocked
India and entire World. The Nation can never forget that dreaded day in 2008 when Kasab and nine Pakistani gunmen launched a
bloody attack on multiple locations in south Mumbai. Kasab and another gunman
attacked Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in south Mumbai shooting train commuters.
Over 50 persons were killed and over 100 injured. They then killed the state
anti-terror squad chief and two other senior police officers near Cama
Hospital.
In
this great Nation of ours, even the killer was given a fair trial – the entire
legal process unfolded with Kasab being served food and he asking for Urudu
papers and more. India took the trouble to conduct and ensure, that it
believed in a proper justice system and would deal with attacks against its
people according to the law.
There were so many victims whose pathetic cases were
buried deep – here is a peculiar one reported in Times of India, that of a
canine this time. At Mumbai, Sheru, a stray dog who took terrorists'
bullets at CST during the 2611 attack died of a cardiac arrest on Saturday. Said to be around 14, Sheru had suffered a leg
injury recently , said Dr Mayur Dangar, manager at the Bombay Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA). It is stated that the leg injury was
not the cause of the death though.
Sheru's
remains were consigned to flames at a crematorium on the hospital premises in
Parel. The hospital staff and associates were in attendance at the special
funeral ceremony . The stray canine had been living on the streets outside the
CST till it was hit by two bullets when the station became one of the targets
of terrorists on November 26, 2008. Admitted to the hospital soon after, the
dog was christened Sheru at the facility. While the bullet that had pierced
Sheru's back was extricated in a surgery conducted at the hospital, the other
one remained lodged in his neck till the end. Dangar said the reason the second
bullet was not removed was that it had lodged itself in the respiratory tract.
“It
was not possible to remove it,“ Dangar said. “Had we even tried, it would have
damaged Sheru's respiratory tract.“ Sandip Chavan, a ward boy at the veterinary
hospital who regularly tended to Sheru described the dog as a friend and member
of the family.
With
regards – S. Sampathkumar
22nd
Dec 2014.
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