More than 11 years after the attack on Parliament, the key
conspirator in the case, Afzal Guru, was hanged to death at 8 am on
Saturday, six days after his mercy plea was rejected on February 3 by
President Pranab Mukherjee. His body was buried inside the Tihar Jail
with full religious rites due to security reasons and not handed over to
his family in Kashmir.
Following the execution of Afzal Guru, curfew was clamped in the
Kashmir Valley and cable TV services were cut off, even as there were
stray protests in Sopore and Baramulla. Reacting to the development, the
separatists insisted that the Parliament attack convict did not get a
fair trial. To further control the situation, separatists Mirwaiz Umer
Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani were placed under house arrest in Delhi
while SAR Geelani, who was acquitted in the case, was taken into
preventive custody.
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