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

Roy, Arundhati

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143420755 ISBN 13: 9780143420750

Publisher: India Penguin, 2016

Synopsis

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. This updated 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997. Her non-fiction writing includes The Algebra of Infinite Justice, An Ordinary Person s Guide to Empire and Broken Republic.

Review:

This is essential reading --Time Out

Raises . . . critical questions about the miscarriage of justice --Businessworld

Makes gripping reading --Deccan Herald

About this edition

• Publisher: India Penguin
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0143420755
• ISBN 13: 9780143420750
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336