Click to play videoNew Delhi: It is the end game for Mohammad Afzal Guru, the man who executed the terror attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001.
Afzal's brother's revelation to CNN-IBN that Afzal is a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist may weigh against the mercy petition pending with the President say legal experts.
Says senior Supreme Court lawyer, Harish Salve, "His brother has now pointed a finger at him and if established on record, this is something that will definitely go against Afzal's plea for clemency."
Political reactions were mixed and ultimately along expected lines. The BJP stuck to it's stated stand.
Says BJP General-Secretary, "We don't have a personal case against Afzal. All we are saying is that the law must take its own course, independent of what his brother said."
However, the Congress on the other hand, continued to play it safe.
Congress spokesperson Rajeev Shukla, says, "Everyone has the right to go in for a mercy petition and by this yardstick, Afzal should also be allowed to do the same."
But a ray of hope for Afzal perhaps came from another legal expert who said the revelations were made under duress and held little water.
According to another Supreme Court lawyer, Nandita Haksar, "Aijaz is hardly a person who one can believe. He had come to my house and told me that he was being intimidated by the Special Task Force."
The final word for Afzal now, however, rests with the President of India.
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