New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has asked Home Minister P.K. Chidambaram to examine if the request of a Supreme Court judge for pardon to Pakistani prisoner Khalil Chishty could be considered on “humanitarian” grounds.
Indian prime minister dispatched a request letter to Chidambaram, received from Justice Markandeya Katju.
“I shall be grateful if you could examine the request of Justice Katju to see if a pardon to Dr Khalil Chishty could be considered on humanitarian grounds,”Dr Singh said in the letter.
Justice Katju has made a “personal” appeal to Indian prime minister to release Chishty, an 80-year-old Pakistani virologist on “humanitarian grounds” who is in Indian jail since 1992 in a murder case.
Singh has also responded to Congress MP Rajiv Shukla, through whom the judge made the appeal, and informed him about his letter to the home minister.
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