"On behalf of the Armenian Community of India, we demand an apology from the Government of Hungary for allowing the cruel murderer to escape the sentence of life imprisonment granted by the Hungarian court," said Rev Father Khoren Hovhannisyan, Pastor of Armenians in India and manager of Armenian College and Philanthropic Academy.
"This unacceptable decision undermines respect for justice, human rights, human dignity and negates the divine law on earth," he wrote in his petition submitted to the Hungarian Consul after protesting outside his office.
It is alleged that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant in the Azerbaijani army, killed a young Armenian army officer Gurgen Margaryan with an axe in 2004 in Hungary.
The Azeri killer was sentenced to life imprisonment for 30 years without parole by the Hungarian judiciary in 2006, but after being extradited to Azerbaijan he was released recently.