'Decision not to bury terrorists commendable'

NEW DELHI: Lauding the resolve of Mumbai Muslims to disallow the burial of Mumbai terrorists on their soil, Law Commission member Tahir Mahmood Friday said their burial in any Indian graveyard could in fact attract provisions of Indian criminal laws.

"Defiling places of worship and trespassing on burial places are serious offences under the Indian criminal law. Burying the bodies of the Mumbai terrorists in any Indian
graveyard despite opposition by the Muslims will attract these provisions in their larger social implications," Mahmood said.

Burial in Islam is indeed a highly sacred way of disposing of a body, an essential part of which is the namaz-e-janaza, he said questioning "which Indian would like to pray for these brutes and why on earth should the religious sanctity and spiritual aura of any graveyard be desecrated by letting them be buried there?"
    
It will be a sacrillege... Mumbai Muslims's resolve that foreign terrorists who brutalised the city last week must not be buried in any of the local graveyard is highly commendable and must have full-hearted support of all Muslim citizens of the country, Mahmood, the former Chairman of National Commission for Minorities said.
    
Bodies of these inhuman plotters must not be buried anywhere on the Indian soil, he added.