Union Home Secretary RK Singh said that Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged at 8 am on Saturday inside Delhi's Tihar Jail. Singh said that the decision on his last rites would be taken as per the jail manual. ...
09:30 AM, Feb 09, 2013
BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy said that although the decision had been delayed by as much as 11 years, it was "undoubtedly a welcome action". ...
09:21 AM, Feb 09, 2013
The hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has been pending since August 2005, when the Supreme Court rejected his plea challenging the death sentence that was awarded to him by a Delhi court in 2002. Since then, the government has been under pressure from the Opposition and activists to hang Afzal Guru. ...
09:12 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged on Saturday at 8 am inside Tihar jail, Home Secretary RK Singh said. ...
09:08 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has been hanged. The Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist was hanged at 8 am on Saturday, Home Secretary RK Singh said. A recommendation to hang him had been sent to the President on January 21. The President gave it his assent on February 3. ...
08:58 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has been hanged. The Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist was hanged at 8 am on Saturday, Home Secretary RK Singh said. A recommendation to hang him had been sent to the President on January 21. The President gave it his assent on February 3. Announcing the details, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that the final decision to hang Afzal Guru was taken on February 8 and he...
08:32 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru has been hanged. The Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist was hanged at 6.25 am on Saturday. A recommendation to hang him had been sent to the President on January 23. The President gave it his assent on January 26. ...
08:19 AM, Feb 09, 2013
The government is expected to make a major announcement on Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru soon, sources said on Saturday. According to sources, the terrorist may have been hanged or due to be hanged soon. ...
07:40 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Sunday said he was in "favour of early hanging of Afzal Guru", sentenced to death by the Supreme Court in the Parliament attack case. "I have always believed that there should be a time limit for the disposal of mercy petitions pending before the President," Singh told PTI. ...
01:44 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Thursday said he was yet to take a decision on the mercy petition of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru after it was sent by the President. ...
02:18 AM, Jan 11, 2013
As many as 24 mercy petition cases have been disposed of since 2009 while 13 are still pending with the government, Parliament was told on Tuesday. ...
08:42 AM, Dec 19, 2012
On the 11th anniversary of the Parliament attack, opposition asked the government when Afzal Guru would be hanged. ...
11:03 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma on Thursday yet again embarrassed his party with his remark that Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru should be spared the death penalty and sentenced to life imprisonment instead. While the Congress played it safe on the remark and refused to comment, Samajwadi Party leader Mohan Singh slammed Beni saying that he was an expert in giving irresponsible statements. ...
02:13 PM, Dec 13, 2012
On the eleventh anniversary of Parliament attack, BJP on Thursday said the government should announce the date for hanging convict Afzal Guru on the day itself to pay "real tribute" to the martyrs of the strike. "Real tribute would be only if the Home Minister assures the House today that we have paid tributes to the martyrs but their families and country will get relief only when he (Guru) would...
12:46 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Thursday marks the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Parliament that left 9 people dead and 18 injured. But there was ruckus in Parliament after BJP's demand for an adjournment of Lok Sabha to discuss the delay in hanging of convict Afzal Guru, which was rejected by the Speaker. ...
12:29 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Thursday marks the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Parliament that left 9 people dead and 18 injured. But there was ruckus in Parliament after BJP's demand for an adjournment of Lok Sabha to discuss the delay in hanging of convict Afzal Guru, which was rejected by the Speaker. ...
11:58 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Parliamentarians led by Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Thursday paid homage to martyrs on the 11th anniversary of the attack on Parliament. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, BJP leader LK Advani, Leaders of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley respectively and other members attended a solemn ceremony held in the premises of...
11:10 AM, Dec 13, 2012
The Bharatiya Janata Party has given a notice for the suspension of Question Hour in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. The party wants to discuss the delay in hanging the Parliament attack convict, Afzal Guru. ...
10:44 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Thursday marks 11 years of the terrorist attack on Parliament that left nine people dead in 2001. Parliamentarians will pay their respects to the security officers, who lost their lives in the 2001 attack. Meanwhile, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that a decision on Afzal Guru's mercy petition will be taken after the current Parliament session ends. ...
07:30 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said he will have a look at the mercy petition of Afzal Guru only after the Winter Session of Parliament. ...
03:19 PM, Dec 10, 2012
