Tagged Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was reportedly hanged on Saturday morning at 8:00 A.M, walked to the gallows in a peaceful and composed frame of mind.
“He was very peaceful and calm during the final moments. He looked very composed,” a top Tihar Jail official said. Soon after the execution, he was buried inside the Tihar Jail. While talking to media a top official of Tihar jail said, “”He (Guru) was buried near jail number three soon after his execution.”
Meanwhile entire Kashmir valley has been placed under strict curfew in the wake of the hanging of Afzal Guru. The reports said, the civil and police administration was informed of the hanging of Afzal Guru after he was hanged to death inside the Tihar jail.
Incidentally chief minister Omar Abdullah was in New Delhi on Friday and reports said that he was himself caught unawares about the rejection of the mercy plea of Afzal Guru by President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday. Home minister Sushil kumar Shinde had promised that he would dispose of the file soon after took over the charge of home ministry last year.