Saswat Panigrahi
Afzal Guru hanged! India woke up to this news last Saturday.
The Parliament House attack convict finally got his just desserts.
It took 12 long years to complete the ‘due process’ and execute
the key conspirator behind the audacious attack on the temple of Indian
democracy on December 13, 2001.
Though Afzal Guru’s hanging calls for celebration, the
process of his execution leaves some unanswered questions.
First, there was an inexplicable delay in executing the
Parliament House attack plotter. The Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist was sentenced
to death by a special court in 2002. His death sentence was upheld by the
Supreme Court in 2005. Two years later, in 2007, the Apex Court rejected a
mercy petition by his wife. Then Afzal’s mercy plea moved from Delhi Government
to the Home Ministry before it finally reached the President. And the process
took another five years.
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