Afzal Guru

We have demonstrated our commitment to justice: Sheshadri Chari on Afzal Guru hanging

Is the Afzal Guru hanging a mark of UPA's desperation? BJP's National Executive member Sheshadri Chari joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...  

Death penalty should be abolished because it is irreversible, inhumane: Meenakshi Ganguly

Meenakshi Ganguly, director of Human Rights Watch joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the hanging of Afzal Guru. ...  

Afzal Guru executed for political gain: Lawyer Kamini Jaiswal

Kamini Jaiswal has hit out saying death row convicts are being used for political gains. ...

Afzal Guru showed no signs of remorse: Tihar officials

Jaish-e-Mohammad militant Afzal Guru, who was hanged on Saturday for his role in the deadly terror attack on Parliament in 2001, was remorseless when he was taken to the gallows in the morning. Senior Tihar Jail officials who oversaw the entire preparation for hanging of Guru said he was "very peaceful" and "calm" during the final moments and did not appear repentant. ...  

Give Afzal Guru's remains to his family: PDP

PDP leader Naeem Akhtar said that Omar Abdullah could not escape from the collective responsibility of Afzal Guru's execution. ...

Afzal Guru convicted on forged evidence: SAR Geelani

SAR Geelani was acquitted in the Parliament attack in 2001. He said that Afzal Guru did not get a fair trial. ...

It's a sad day for Kashmiris: Shabnam Lone on Afzal Guru's hanging

Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged to death on Saturday at 8 am inside Tihar jail. ...

Mobile internet services snapped in Kashmir

Authorities on Saturday snapped the mobile internet services in Kashmir Valley following hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammed Afzal Guru inside Tihar jail in national capital. ...  

Hurriyat's Farooq, Geelani under house arrest

Hurriyat Conference leaders Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who are in Delhi, were placed under house arrest soon after Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru was hanged in Delhi's Tihar Jail at 8 am on Saturday. ...  

People's sensitivity should have been considered: PDP on Afzal

Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday expressed disappointment over the hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru and appealed to the people of Kashmir to exercise restraint. "PDP is disappointed at the hanging of Afzal Guru. We had urged that political sensitivities should be taken into considering while taking a decision on his clemency plea," PDP spokesman Nayeem Akhtar said. ...  

J&K: Hurriyat calls for four-day mourning for Afzal Guru

Moderate Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Saturday announced four-day mourning on the death of Mohammad Afzal Guru, who was hanged this morning following his conviction in the Parliament attack case. "We call on people to observe four-day mourning on the hanging of Guru. A complete shutdown will be observed over the mourning period," Shahidul Islam, spokesman of the amalgam, told PTI. ...  

Watch: A tribute to the martyrs of Parliament attack 2001

Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged on Saturday at 8 am in Tihar jail. ...

Kashmir is grieving over Afzal's execution: Cousin

Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's family said they were not told in advance about his hanging Saturday morning and want his body. Yaseen Guru, a cousin of Afzal Guru, told IANS on phone: "It is all rubbish that we were told before the execution... We came to know about it through the media." ...  

Full text: Supreme Court's 2005 judgment upholding death sentence to Afzal Guru

Read the complete text of the Supreme Court of India's August 4, 2005 judgment upholding the death sentence awarded to Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. ...  

Full text: Supreme Court judgement on Afzal Guru

Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged at 8 am in Delhi's Tihar Jail on Saturday after President Pranab Mukherjee had rejected his mercy petition on February 3. ...  

Don't think UPA can ever decide on my case: Afzal in 2008

Stressing that he wanted a quick end to his ordeal, Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru had in 2008 doubted if the UPA government could ever reach a decision on his case. In what was perhaps his last interview, the death row convict had told IANS that life had become hell and he did not wish to be "part of the living dead". ...  

Better late than never: Parliament attack martyr's family

'Der aaye durust aaye' - the family of a 2001 Parliament attack responded by using this old Hindi adage which means 'better late than never'. Son of Matbar Singh Negi, who was on duty on December 13 on the fateful day as part of the Parliament watch and ward staff, said Saturday's hanging of Afzal Guru in Tihar jail was a good decision by the government and it will send...  

Govt must do more for families of martyrs: Wife of Parliament attack victim

Sunita Devi, whose husband, a cameraman, died during the attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001, said that the government must do more the families of martyrs. ...

Watch: Political reactions on Afzal Guru's hanging

Parliament attacks convict Afzal Guru was on Saturday hanged inside Tihar jail at 8.00 am. ...

Afzal Guru hanged, buried in Tihar jail; two injured in protests in Kashmir

Afzal Guru has been buried inside the Tihar jail complex, a prison official told PTI on Saturday. "He (Guru) was buried near jail number three," he added. This was similar to the case of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, who was buried in Pune's Yerwada jail soon after his execution. ...