Dara knocks NHRC doors to perform his father’s rites

Bajrang Dal activist Dara Singh, facing death for killing Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons in Orissa, today moved the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for parole to enable him to perform rituals related to his father’s death.

In his petition, Dara Singh has sought permission to visit his native village in Uttar Pradesh where his father’s ashes would be immersed in the Ganges on November 2 and 3. His two earlier petitions to the government and the Orissa High Court, soon after his father’s death in a road accident, had been rejected. His two sisters had earlier petitioned the NHRC in this regard. Dara has expressed his apprehensions about ‘‘injustice’’ unless he is shifted from Orissa to Delhi’s Tihar jail. He has also sought directions from the NHRC for shifting of all cases against him to a Delhi court for a ‘‘fair trial’’.