Hire to kill? - No problem
"Unfortunate" offer by "lawmaker"

NEW DELHI - An India court on Monday rejected demands for action against a lawmaker who put a bounty of 11.5 million dollars on the heads of Danish cartoonists who drew controversial images of the Prophet Mohammed.

A three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Y. K. Sabharwal described as “unfortunate” the offer made by Mohammed Yaqoob Qureshi, a minister in the Uttar Pradesh state government, last month.
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Qureshi told a Muslim rally after Friday prayers last month that he would give “the avenger” 510 million rupees (11.5 million dollars) and his weight in gold.

“The money will be paid by the people of Meerut (city),” said Qureshi, who is the state’s minister in charge of minority affairs and of the annual Haj pilgrimage which Muslims undertake to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

500 million rupees and the avenger's weight in gold would seem to be sufficient incentive. Maybe the 10 million rupees is for expenses.

And he's not even offering to pay it himself - he's offering other people's money. Maybe that's the technicality that got him off.

/Sarcasm alert./