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Mohd Afzal to be hanged on Oct 20
Published on Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 17:22, Updated on Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 13:08 in India section
Tags: Parliament Attack, Death Penalty , New Delhi
New Delhi: Mohammad Afzal, prime accused in the December 2001 Parliament attack case, will be hanged in Delhi's Tihar jail on October 20.
Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur while issuing the order of execution, to be carried out at 0600 hrs, IST at Tihar Jail in New Delhi on October 20, said Baramulla resident Afzal be hanged by neck until dead.
However, Tihar jail spokesman Sunil Kumar Gupta said he had received no official intimation on hanging Mohammad Afzal.
"We have no official intimation on this. Unless we receive the orders we cannot comment on the issue," while informing that the mercy petition of the accused was still pending with the government, though sources maintained that the expiry duration of the petition was over.
On the jail preparedness to hang the accused, he said this could be done within no time after a direction to this effect comes. "Our preparedness depends on the type of orders we get."
The last time any hanging took place in Tihar jail was on January 6, 1989, when Satwant Singh and Beant Singh – accused in the killing of former prime minister Indira Gandhi – were executed.
Afzal's death sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court on August 4, 2005, which also changed the capital punishment awarded to Shaukat Hussain Guru to ten years of rigorous imprisonment.
Special POTA court had sentenced Mohammed Afzal to death along with Delhi University lecturer SAR Geelani and Shaukat Hussain Guru on December 18, 2002.
The court had also sentenced Afsan Guru, wife of Shaukat Hussain Guru, to five years' rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000 for concealing knowledge of the conspiracy.
Parliament Attack: Total Recall
In what was probably the most audacious terror attack on India, terrorists entered Parliament House premises breaching security at gate number 12 and started indiscriminate firing from AK-47 rifles and hurled grenades, killing six Delhi policemen and a Parliament employee. Five terrorists were also killed in the shootout.
The security breach took place at around 1145 hrs just as the two Houses had been adjourned following an uproar over the coffin scam and parliamentarians were preparing to leave the House. Several Union ministers and hundreds of MPs were inside Parliament when the attack took place.
The Army was called in. Black Cat commandos and police personnel rushed to the spot and all entry and exit points were sealed before the security forces engaged the rebels in a lock-down and mop-up operation, killing all the terrorists on the spot.
Parliament attack: Chronology of events
December 13, 2001: Five Pakistani terrorists attack Parliament House. Nine security personnel killed, 16 other injured.
December 14, 2001: India asks Pakistan to act against LeT, JeM.
December 15, 2001: Police arrest Delhi University lecturer S A R Geelani, Mohammad Afzal, Shaukat Hussain and his wife Navjot Sandhu. A laptop and Rs. 10 lakh recovered from Afzal and Shaukat in Srinagar.
December 16, 2001: The then Delhi police Chief Ajai Raj Sharma says Pakistan supervised the attack, Pakistan calls for joint probe.
December 18, 2001: Home Minister L K Advani blames ISI for the attack, PM Vajpayee rejects call for joint probe.
December 19, 2001: Pakistan rejects Advani's charge, demands evidence.
December 22, 2001: Mohammad Afzal, Shaukat Hussain and S A R Geelani confirm their confessional statements recorded by DCP Special Cell Ashok Chand.
December 24, 2001: US, UK, EU issue demarche to Pakistan, demand ban on LeT, JeM.
December 25, 2001: JeM Chief Masood Azhar arrested in Pakistan, LeT, Tameer-e-Nau bank accounts frozen.
With Agency inputs
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