Muhammad Afzal Guru convicted of plotting the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament was hanged by Indian authorities on Saturday morning.
Afzal Guru was hanged at 8:00am inside Delhi’s Tehar Jail said Home Minister, Susheel Kumar Shinde and Home Secretary R.K Singh. The Home Secretary also announced that Afzal Guru would be buried inside Tehar Jail.
Meanwhile, curfew has been imposed across occupied Kashmir to prevent people from coming out of their houses to protest the judicial murder of the Baramulla-based, Kashmiri leader, Muhammad Afzal Guru. The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani have called for a 4-day strike against the execution of Afzal Guru.
Syed Ali Gilani in his reaction termed the hanging of Guru “unjust and murder of democracy.” Gilani said that “uur stand on Afzal has been that he was not given a fair trial and his hanging once again proves that the Kashmiris can never expect justice from India. ”
Earlier, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee had rejected the mercy plea Mohammed Afzal Guru
Afzal became the second person to be hanged in India in nearly a decade with Mohammed Ajmal Kasab as being the first, who was hanged to death in a Pune jail in November last year for orchestrating killings in Taj Mahal Hotel of Mumbai. Guru was found guilty of conspiring with and sheltering the militants who attacked the parliament in December 2001. Afzal Guru was given the death sentence by the Supreme Court in 2004.
Moreover, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was in New Delhi on Friday and reports said that he was himself caught unaware regarding the rejection of the mercy plea of Afzal Guru by President.
The authorities have closed the Srinagar-Jammu national high for the day to avert the trouble. Large numbers of para-military personnel have been deployed outside the houses of the separatist leaders to prevent them from coming out on the streets to lead protestors.