New Delhi: In a significant move, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Centre to furnish details of 18 mercy pleas, including that of Parliament attack death convict Afzal Guru, pending disposal before the President. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya also asked eminent jurist Ram Jethmalani to file written submissions on "whether the President should objectively apply mind while deciding mercy petitions". The apex court felt...
05:35 PM, Apr 03, 2012
The Congress and the BJP have been saying Afzal Guru must be hanged even as the J&K government has been seeking clemency. ...
10:58 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Jammu: Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru should "pay the price" for attacking India, Union New and Renewable Energy Minister and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah said on Saturday. "Anyone who attacks India should pay the price for it," Farooq Abdullah, president of the state's ruling National Conference (NC), said in reply to a reporter's question on Afzal Guru. However, even as the elder Abdullah indicated strong action...
04:06 AM, Feb 26, 2012
The families of martyrs have submitted a memorandum to the President asking her to expedite execution of Afzal Guru. ...
11:56 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: Under fire from Opposition over the delay in carrying out the death sentence of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, government on Tuesday put the onus on President Pratibha Patil saying a decision on the issue has to be taken by her. Using the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Parliament attack, BJP asked why government was not punishing those held guilty for the December 13, 2001 audacious strike....
09:14 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Delay in the hanging of Afzal Guru upsets families of the nine security staff, who lost their lives in the attack. ...
08:22 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: Admitting that the justice delivery system in the country was slow, Government on Tuesday said efforts were on to ensure matters are decided in courts within three to five years. "I cannot comment on legal system procedures and rule of law," Law Minister Salman Khurshid said when asked about the delay in Afzal Guru case. However, he said, "we are not entirely happy with the pace at which...
04:55 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: The mercy plea of decade-old Parliament attack case convict Mohd Afzal Guru was among 14 other such applications pending decision by President Pratibha Patil. Replying to an RTI query, the President Secretariat declined to disclose copies of correspondence and file notings related to Guru's clemency petition, saying they were "records of deliberations of the Council of Ministers, secretaries and other officers". The President's office had received a total...
02:26 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Former Delhi police commissioner Ajay Raj Sharma says MPs were lucky that the attack was foiled. ...
02:19 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: The Members of Parliament and security personnel held a tribute for the nine martyrs who lost their lives in the 2001 Parliament attack. However, the families of most of the martyrs skipped the event upset over the delay in the hanging of convict Afzal Guru. Five terrorists entered the premises of Parliament on December 13, 2001 and began indiscriminate firing. Many MPs were inside Parliament at that time....
11:17 AM, Dec 13, 2011
Member of Parliaments talk about their experiences of Parliament attack that happened 10 years ago. ...
08:31 AM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: Ten years after the attack, the families of the martyrs are boycotting Parliament to protest the delay in hanging convict Afzal Guru. They are meeting the President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday to request her to expedite the process. There were seven brave men who laid down their lives to save the prestige of the nation, but their families are boycotting the tribute ceremony in Parliament. The family members...
06:28 AM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: It's been 10 years since the attack on Parliament, which was the biggest attack on the Indian democracy. The attack left a trail of evidence behind, that pointed to Pakistan. A number stuck on the back of all the phones the terrorists used led to Afzal Guru who is a prime accused in the attack and now on death row. Twelve people died in the attack and the...
06:13 AM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: Government on Wednesday said mercy petitions of 20 death row convicts, including Afzal Guru, are under various stages of consideration and that the Constitution does not specify any time limit within which a decision should be taken. "The cases of the mercy petitions were examined and submitted/resubmitted to the President's Secretariat expeditiously. 13 mercy petition cases have been decided by the President since November 2009," Minister of State...
05:20 PM, Nov 30, 2011
new Delhi:There were protests outside Jammu and Kashmir Assembly ahead of the Afzal Guru clemency debate on Thursday. Independent MLA Engineer Rashid and his supporters were detained by the police for staging a protest outside the house. Rashid was released soon after. Earlier, the Afzal Guru clemency debate was stalled after there was an uproar in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly for the second day on Thursday. On Wednesday, Assembly proceedings...
11:34 AM, Sep 29, 2011
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