There is likely to be long term alienation in Kashmir after Afzal Guru's hanging has said Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah sounding a not of deep worry anger and anxiety. ...
11:58 PM, Feb 11, 2013
'Operation Three Star' was the code name of the entire top secret plan in which Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist Afzal Guru was hanged in the high-security Tihar Jail on Saturday morning. The operation had started on February 4, a day after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected the mercy petition of the Parliament attack convict paving the way for his execution. ...
09:29 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Hours before he was to be executed, Afzal Guru penned his last letter to his wife, Tihar Jail officials said on Monday. The letter, written in Urdu, was posted on Saturday but is yet to reach his wife in Kashmir. Speaking to IANS, officials at Tihar jail said that Afzal Guru, convicted for his role in the 2001 Parliament attack, was told on February 8 evening that he would be...
07:15 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Pakistan on February 11 reacted cautiously to the execution of Afzal Guru, hanged for his role in the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, saying it did not want to "go into details" of his trial. ...
02:40 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Afzal Guru's belongings like books, clothes, spectacles and a radio are likely to be returned to his family by authorities of Tihar Jail where the Parliament attack convict was hanged in an operation shrouded in secrecy. ...
09:39 PM, Feb 10, 2013
A day after the Parliament attack convict was hanged inside Tihar Jail in the national capital, more questions are being raised on whether the family of Afzal Guru was deliberately kept in the dark about the government's decision. While the government has claimed to have sent the information about the execution to Guru's family in advance, his family and relatives have maintained that they got to know about the hanging...
07:59 PM, Feb 10, 2013
More than 24 hours after Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged inside Tihar jail, the prison officials have reportedly said that they are yet to receive the acknowledgment receipt of the speed post, through which the government claimed to have sent information to Afzal's family about his execution. This has a raised questions on the credibility of the government's claims that the family had been informed ahead of the...
01:24 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged at 8 am on Saturday in front of eight people in the Tihar Jail in a procedure that took eight minutes, prison sources said on Saturday. ...
12:58 AM, Feb 10, 2013
The family of Afzal Guru, who was hanged in Tihar Jail on Saturday, sought permission from the authorities to perform his last rites in accordance with religious traditions. Guru's body was buried inside the jail premises, said officials. ...
05:33 PM, Feb 09, 2013
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. ...
02:56 PM, Feb 09, 2013
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. ...
11:48 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged this morning, walked to the gallows in a peaceful and composed frame of mind. "He was very peaceful and calm during the final moments. He looked very composed," a top Tihar Jail official told PTI. ...
10:31 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
A melodious voice, a sweet six-string riff, a beautiful jugalbandi on tabla - The music launch of their album is like any other, however, with one difference. The musicians are all prisoners and the performance is in Tihar Jail. Meet the Tihar Idols, who have launched their first album, a first from inside a jail. ...
10:06 AM, Feb 01, 2013
A serial killer, who would dump headless bodies of his victims near Tihar jail during 2006-07 and dare the cops to nab him, was today convicted by a Delhi court for the offences of murder and destruction of evidence. 44-year-old Chandrakant Jha, a native of Madhepura in Bihar, faces death penalty after Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Kamini Lau held him guilty of killing three persons in separate cases, relying on...
08:39 PM, Jan 24, 2013
A Delhi court has extended by two weeks the judicial custody of a youth and his cousin, arrested for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl after befriending her on a social networking site. ...
05:04 PM, Jan 18, 2013
A woman Delhi Police constable posted at Tihar Jail was found dead on Thursday on a railway track in Ghaziabad, police said. ...
03:25 AM, Jan 18, 2013
The last place you'd expect a music album to be launched is Tihar Jail. But come later this year, that's exactly what is going to happen. Tihar's inmates have become the first, worldwide to cut a commercial music album from inside a jail. ...
08:59 AM, Jan 09, 2013
New Delhi: Former BJP President Bangaru Laxman will walk out of Tihar Jail on Friday evening after Delhi High Court granted him bail in the fake arms deal case on Thursday. Bangaru had been convicted and sentenced to four years in prison after he was caught on camera taking a bribe of Rs one lakh in April 2012. Bangaru was released on a Rs 50,000 bail bond. 72-year-old Bangaru was...
07:57 AM, Oct 12, 2012
