"We've left it to Allah!" was the reaction of the distraught family of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru following media reports that the home ministry had recommended his hanging.
"We don't know about the development. We have no knowledge if the home ministry has taken any decision on it," Guru's cousin, who did not want to be named, said.
A published report on Wednesday said the government had asked President Pratibha Patil to reject the mercy plea of Guru, who is on the death row for the 2001 Parliament attack.
Confident that the government won't fast track his execution, Guru's cousin said: "We have left it all to Allah. He is the best judge to deliver justice. We firmly believe that fate is written, and we have submitted ourselves before the will of god."
Attempts to get in touch with Guru's wife Tabassum, who has filed the petition with the President's office, failed as she refuses to talk to the media.
"Sorry, Pyari (Tabassum) cannot speak. She is not in a position to," said the cousin, who works in a nursing home in Sopore, 50 km from Srinagar.
The cousin said that the 40-year-old Guru had written to the home ministry seeking a quick decision on his mercy petition saying the solitary confinement of several years in New Delhi's Tihar Jail was taking its toll on him.
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