About the Book: The Hanging of Afzal Guru and 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. Eleven 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.
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