The Hanging of Afzal Guru & the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament

On 13 December 2001 the Indian Parliament was attacked by a few heavily armed men. Fifteen years later we still do not know who was behind the attack nor the identity of the attackers. Both the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India have noted that the police violated legal safeguards fabricated evidence and extracted false confessions. Yet on 9 February 2013 one man Mohammad Afzal Guru was hanged to 'satisfy' the 'collective conscience' of society.This reader brings together essays by lawyers academics journalists and writers who have looked closely at the available facts and who have raised serious questions about the investigations and the trial. This new version examines the implications of Mohammad Afzal Guru’s hanging and what it says about the Indian government’s relationship with Kashmir. Review This is essential readingTime OutRaises . . . critical questions about the miscarriage of justiceBusinessworldMakes gripping readingDeccan Herald About the Author Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things which won the Booker Prize in 1997. Two volumes of her non-fiction writing The Algebra of Infinite Justice and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire were published by Penguin India in 2001 and 2005 respectively. She lives in New Delhi.