Forget Modi, even PM can’t decide fate of a murderer: Left

Condemning Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s justification of the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, the CPM on Wednesday said not even the Prime Minister can decide the fate of a murderer and it was only the legal process which could do so.

“This is shameful. We condemn Modi’s comments. Even if it is a criminal, the Chief Minister or, for that matter, even the Prime Minister, cannot decide the fate,” party Politburo member Sitaram Yechury said in New Delhi.

“It is the law that pronounces the punishment. To justify the act of a murder, it is even worse,” he said.

Yechury was reacting to Modi’s statement at an election meeting that Sheikh had ‘got what he deserved’.