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Law of land is final authority: Kalam on Afzal's clemency
Apr 30 2007, Pratyush

The European parliament president had raised the issue of death sentence awarded to Mohd Afzal, guilty in the Parliament attack case 2001, during APJ Abdul Kalam’s visit to European Union and Greece.

Kalam said on this issue that the Indian...

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