What about Afzal Guru? Asks Modi
November 21, 2012
Ahmedabad, 21 November 2012
After Ajmal Kasab’s death, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi tweeted “What about Afzal Guru, who attacked Parliament, our temple of democracy, in 2001? That offence predates Kasab’s heinous act by many years.”
Afzal Guru was convicted for conspiracy in the December 13, 2001 attack on Parliament and was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court in 2004.
Guru’s death sentence was scheduled to be carried out on October 20, 2006 but was stayed after his wife filed a mercy petition. The Home Ministry had recommended in August last year to then President Pratibha Patil that Afzal Guru be hanged. But Rashtrapati Bhawan is yet to move on that file.
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