FORMER television presenter Vidya Shankar Aiyar is appealing that the rod be spared, in a clemency petition to the President over his sentence of four strokes of the cane.
The molesters petition, which also seeks a review of the 16-month prison sentence, was forwarded a few days before the start of his jail term at Queenstown Remand Prison on Feb 3.
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