GNS Jammu, September 24: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee condoled the death of Shri Basant Sathe, former Union Minister and veteran Congress leader. A condolence meeting was held at PCC HQ. Shaheedi Chowk, Jammu under the chairmanship of Senior Vice President PCC Shri Dharam Pal Sharma-Ex-MP. The meeting expressed deep shock and grief over the sad demise of Shri Basant Sathe and described him a great politician, parliamentarian and a strong congress leader who served his constituency for several terms and remained union minister for a long time. The leaders conveyed their heartfelt condolence to bereaved family and prayed for peace to the departed soul in heaven. A two minutes silence was observed in the memory of departed soul. Prominent among those who condoled the death S/Shri Amrit Malhotra-MLC, Th. Hari Singh, Yash Paul Khajuria-MLC, S. Gurmukh Singh, Mula Ram; General Secretary & Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma-MLC, Mehrajudin Zargar, Manmohan Singh, Hari Singh Chib, Pardeep Parihar, Ashwani Puri, B.B.Gupta, P.S. Chouhan, Narinder Gupta, Main Nazir Ahmed and others.
When the holy Quran was placed before Mohammed Maqbool Butt on the morning of February 11, 1984, he knew that death awaited him in the phansi kothi a few yards away. A high voltage bulb burning outside the grated doors of his solitary cell in the death row was indicative of the outside darkness. If he had had any hopes of living awhile yet, they were dashed by the presence of the” prison doctors. Jail superintendent, A.B. Shukla/had paid Butt a visit in the middle of the previous night. Shukla chatted with him for a long time but cautiously avoided any talk about the execution. “I will see you on Monday”, Butt’s counsel on record, the sallow-complexioned R.C. Pathak, had told him during a brief interview they were allowed on the evening of February 10. In answer, the condemned Kashmir Liberation Front leader, who was awarded the death sentence of the murder of a CID officer in 1966, had meaningfully remarked: “Do you think they will permit us a second meeting?” He was right! Butt was n...
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