As the hanging reignited the death penalty debate, the unseemly row was triggered after Singh said government and judiciary should display the same “exemplary urgency and commitment” in all terror cases irrespective of the religion of the accused and Tharoor commenting that “state-sponsored” killing diminishes us all by reducing us to “murderers too”. The CPI-M termed the execution of Yakub as “miscarriage of justice”.
<g data-gr-id="17">AIMIM</g> leader and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said the government should ensure death sentence in all similar cases. “Death sentence should also be given to Babu Bajrangi, Maya Kodnani, Lt Col Purohit and Swami Aseemanand,” he said.