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Two days after hanging, speed post reaches Guru's family
Monday February 11, 2013 02:34:51 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar: The speed
post sent by Tihar Jail superintendent to Afzal Guru's family in
Kashmir Valley's Sopore town was delivered Monday, two days after
he was hanged in the national capital. The letter reached postal
authorities here Saturday evening, several hours after he was
executed.
"A speed post letter has been delivered to us by postal
authorities today. Tihar Jail authorities have sent this speed
post to Afzal's family," Afzal Guru's cousin Yaseen told
journalists in Daibgah (Jageer) village near Sopore town.
Senior postal officials in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir's summer
capital, said the speed post was received Saturday evening - Afzal
Guru was executed at 8 a.m. Saturday - but delivered Monday as
Sunday was a public holiday.
"We received the speed post by air Saturday evening. It was
addressed to Tabassum Guru (his wife). Sunday being a public
holiday, the speed post has been delivered today," John Samuel,
chief post master general (Jammu and Kashmir), told journalists.
Afzal Guru, hanged for his role in the 2001 attack on parliament,
last met his Tabassum and son Ghalib in August 2012.
His family has said they heard the news of his execution from a
television channel as they had received no communication from jail
authorities about the hanging.
Home Secretary R.K. Singh said Saturday: "The family was informed
earlier. I checked from the jail authorities and they informed me
that two letters had been sent by speed post. The DGP Kashmir was
asked to crosscheck too. It is not correct that the family was not
informed."
Jammu and Kashmir Chief minister Omar Abdullah has been highly
critical of the Jail authorities for having used speed post for
intimating Afzal's family.
"As a human being, I find it very difficult to reconcile myself to
the fact that we executed a person who was not given the
opportunity to see his family for the last time. If in this day
and age, we are relying on speed post to inform a family that
their loved one is going to be executed, there is something
seriously wrong. I wish we were the ones who were authorised to
inform the family," he told a TV channel.
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