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The government of Andhra Pradesh will pay up Rs. 5 lakhs to the wife of a murder victim in Kuwait, part of the settlement deal that will win a pardon for the murderer, a Kerala state native who is in a Kuwaiti prison awaiting execution.

Suresh, the murder victim, a native of Andhra Pradesh, was killed last November, when he was attacked by his friend Simil, in what was essentially a scuffle over a cricket match.

According to Kuwait’s Shariyat laws, the wife of a murder victim can pardon the murderer and can make a deal with the murderer’s representatives to win a reprieve or leniency. So a village council member from Simil’s village in Kerala traveled to Cudappah in Andhra Pradesh to make a deal with victim Suresh’s wife. Mediating through the local physician, murderer Simil’s family friends managed to persuade Suresh’s wife to accept Rs. 6 lakhs as compensation. Recently Suresh’s wife upped the demand to Rs 15 lakhs, so the townspeople started a fundraising drive which will now get some help from the Andhra Pradesh chief minister.

The financial compensation also known as blood money or Diyah in Kuwait, is a practice that is applicable to murders that are not pre-meditated. When the relatives of the victims agree to the diyah deal, a letter of forgiveness called tanazul is executed, death sentence is commuted and subsequent punishment is reduced to half. At this time, the convict can apply for a presidential (Ameeri) pardon to get out of the remaining half of the punishment.

So coming back to the point, an NRI in Kuwait who is originally from Kerala stabs and kills another NRI originally from Andhra, and the Andhra government is now paying the victim’s wife Rs. 5 lakhs of the taxpayer money (surely the money isn’t coming from the Chief minister’s pocket) because the murderer from Kerala comes from a poor family. So people’s sweat money is being paid off as blood money for a murderer who stabbed someone else due to a Cricket dispute. Why doesn’t the BCCI, the richest cricketing body in the world, pay the blood money for one of their fans? Since it is because of idiots like him that we still have idiots like them killing every other sport but Cricket?


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  1. ashvini kumar on February 25, 2008 3:11 pm

    Bravo
    Well Said…

  2. Should taxpayers fund “blood money”? | DesiPundit on February 26, 2008 5:03 pm

    [...] discusses an interesting news report - the AP government has agreed to pay Rs. 5 lakhs as “blood money” to secure the pardon of an Indian convicted of murdering a compatriot in Kuwait.  Obviously, this is taxpayer money.  [...]

  3. Vibhash on February 26, 2008 5:21 pm

    reminds me of movie dor…by kukkunor..

  4. hetal on February 27, 2008 3:04 am

    5 lakhs is nothing if it can save a person from capital punishment, no matter what it is that he has been accused of. If the money comes from taxes that we pay, so be it. The Government spends money on so many other things which amounts to nothing, Why not this?

  5. deep on February 27, 2008 8:12 am

    This incident inspired a Malayalam movie called “Perumazhakalam” which later Nagesh Kukunoor remade in Hindi as “Dor”.

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