Afzal Guru was awarded death sentence by a Delhi court on December 18, 2002 after being convicted of conspiracy to attack Parliament on December 13, 2001. Aug 30, 2003: Jaish-e-Muhammad leader Ghazi Baba, prime accused in the attack, is killed in an encounter with the Border Security Force (BSF) in Srinagar. ... which in the majority of instances the cause of death was strangulation and asphyxia (Report No. Afzal Guru row: JNU issues show-cause notice to 21 students 14 Mar, 2016, 08.37 PM IST The JNU issued show-cause notice to 21 students after an inquiry panel found them "guilty of violating" norms in connection with the event on campus. Was Afzal Guru hanged because language had failed? Gupta mentions that Afzal befriended Khalistani supporter and then on the death-row Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar at Tihar and both shared a great relationship, spending the little time they got during their daily walks. Dec 18, 2002: Death sentence given to S A R Geelani, Shaukat Hussain Guru and Afzal Guru, while Afsan Guru is let off. Seen in this light, Afzal Guru was awarded the death penalty because the author(s) of the words pronouncing the verdict, the judges, were at a loss for words. Five gunmen sneaked into the Parliament in a car with Home Ministry and Parliament labels. Afzal Guru. The death sentence was upheld by Delhi High Court on October 29, 2003 and finally his appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court two years later on … . Afzal Guru lies peacefully with Kashmiri militant Maqbool Butt buried in Tihar prison. Five years after Afzal Guru’s hanging in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail, Kashmir Narrator gathers previously unpublished details about his life and events leading to his execution By Bilal Handoo. In this Dec. 17, 2002 file photo, Mohammad Afzal Guru, second from right, a Kashmiri man convicted of involvement in a 2001 attack on India's Parliament, is produced at a court in New Delhi, India. The debate over the mercy petition of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru,who has been sentenced to death,is already a raging political match between the Opposition BJP and the Congress. The Jaish-e-Mohammad for instance has used the name of Afzal Guru extensively to further its cause. While staying the death sentence of 8 people temporarily on the first week of April 2013 the SC had observed the need to follow procedures while executing the death sentence thus partially admitting the glaring anomalies in the ‘secret’ hanging to death of Mohd. The battle in the Valley has been fought in several names. June 4, 2002: Charges are framed against four people - Afzal Guru, Geelani, Shaukat Hussain Guru, Afsan Guru and Geelani. What I have tried to do is to see if the verdict was one-sided and unfair when looked at from a layman’s perspective. Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party spokesman in a statement in Srinagar said that Afzal Guru was hanged to death without being given a fair trial. One of the often quoted passage from the judgement by Afzal sympathizers is this one. On 13th of December 2001, few terrorists had carried out an attack on Indian Parliament, New Delhi. At the dawn of 9 February 2013, as he was escorted out of his cell in the ‘high-risk’ ward of Tihar’s jail 3, Mohammad Afzal Guru knew the day had come. Maqbool Bhat, Afzal Guru and Burhan Wani. 187, 37 – 38). Bhat became an icon for the cause of Kashmiri independence, and there is still a shutdown in Kashmir Valley every year on 11 February to commemorate his death.
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