Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW Vol. 5 Num 453 Sat. September 03, 2005       Letters to Editor The Presidential pardon S. M. Khalid Chowdhury On e-mail Family of the assassinated person shall extend mercy to the assassin may be against monetary assistance and the assassin must get pardon from the victim's family. Unless the family of the victim extends mercy, the head of the state should refrain from extending his constitutional power of granting. The victim's family must get adequate compensation. If the assassin is wealthy person or otherwise willingly extends mercy but at any cost the assassin must get pardon from the family of the victim. It must be made a constitutional obligation for the President, before he extends assistance, to consult the victims family -- who might be in need of financial assistance. As such unilateral granting of mercy should have another clause added that consultation with the victim's family be made compulsory for the president. This is moral obligation to seek mercy from victim's family or else this clause in the constitution of the republic of granting mercy by the president could be utilised for political motive and benefit.