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Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru hanged at
8 a.m.
Saturday February 09, 2013 09:43:31 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Parliament
attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged Saturday morning, days after
President Pranab Mukherjee refused his mercy petition, officials
said.
"Afzal Guru was hanged at 8 a.m.," Home Secretary R.K. Singh told
reporters.
"We received the president's rejection of his mercy plea on Feb
3...We moved accordingly then," he said.
Security has been stepped up in some towns, he added.
Afzal Guru was convicted for his role in the attack on Parliament
in 2001.
Earlier, President Mukherjee's Press Secretary Venu Rajamony told
IANS: "Guru's mercy plea was rejected by the president some days
ago."
A curfew has been clamped in parts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Afzal Guru was given the death sentence by the Supreme Court in
2004. His hanging was scheduled for October 2006, but was stayed
after his wife filed a mercy petition.
Nine people were killed in the December 2001 parliament attack
when five heavily-armed Pakistani terrorists drove into the
Parliament complex and opened fire.
The terrorists were shot dead.
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