'Please take me to the doctor...' is all that he managed to say. Accused number 23, Iqbal Sheikh, in the files of 1993 Bombay bomb blast case. Little did he know that even the doctor could do nothing for his 'life,' especially against the law of land that has sentenced him to death. His guilt: he was present when RDX was being laden in the vehicles and parking a scooter laden with RDX that failed to explode. For this man, breathing was more of an obligation than a necessity. An indifferent look, unkempt beard, failing health and slowly eroding sanity adding to his already frail body and mind that was getting weaker with every court date. I am told that hardly anyone ever came to visit him in all the 14 years that he spent in the prison. His loneliness is evident in his empty eyes. He is incapable of thought. He suffers from psychological neurosis. And so when TADA...