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

by Arundhati Roy

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143420755
• ISBN13: 9780143420750
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Penguin Books India
• Length: 336 Pages