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Tihar officials refuse RTI query on Afzal Guru
Saturday March 02, 2013 04:54:34 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: Can disclosure
of certain details on parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, hanged
at New Delhi's Tihar Jail "affect relations with a foreign state"?
The prison department certainly thinks so.
It would "pre-judicially affect the sovereignty and integrity of
India, the security, strategic, scientific or economic interests
of the state, relation with foreign state or lead to incitement of
an offence," the Tihar Jail said in a reply to a Right to
Information (RTI) query by Urvashi Sharma of Lucknow.
The prison headquarters (office of the director general of
prisons) has cited various clauses which could jeopardise the
relations of India with foreign countries if details like the copy
of the 'black warrant' of Afzal Guru, copies of communication sent
by ministry of home affairs after taking a decision on the mercy
petition, and the total expenses, item wise on keeping Afzal in
jail.
Sharma had also sought copies of documents or letters generated,
sent and received by the prison department during the process of
deciding the place of burial.
Sharma had also asked for the names of the executioner (s), list
of people present during the burial of Guru's dead body and any
photographs that "could be fraught with security concerns".
But, she was taken aback by the curt response of the prison
department stonewalling "innocent queries" like expenses incurred
on his stay in Tihar Jail.
"This is completely unacceptable. Why can they not part with
communications leading to the rejection of his mercy petition and
subsequent hanging," Sharma asked while speaking to IANS.
She claimed had the prison department responded positively,
several "conspiracy theories and human rights queries would have
been satiated".
"There has been several protests regarding the secretive
circumstances Afzal Guru was hanged in and the quiet
burial...(the) prison department of Tihar Jail and the union
government must come clean on this matter," the RTI activist said,
adding she was exploring options to file a review petition.
Afzal Guru, a resident of Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir was
convicted for plotting the terror attack on parliament on Dec 13,
2001 and was hanged Feb 9 at Tihar Jail after President Pranab
Mukherjee rejected his mercy petition.
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