Afzal Guru Mercy Petition

• Devender Pal Singh Bhullar's appeal rejected. Supreme Court verdict could impact other death row prisoners

  The Supreme Court has ruled that Punjab militant Devender Pal Singh Bhullar will be executed for killing nine people with a car bomb in 2009 in Delhi.

• Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's appeal rejected. Supreme Court verdict could impact other death row prisoners

  Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's appeal rejected: The Supreme Court has ruled that a death sentence cannot be commuted to life imprisonment because of a delay in execution. The court has rejected an appeal by Devinderpal Singh Bhullar against his hanging, and could impact the cases of 16 other prisoners on death row who have pleaded against their punish...

• Death sentences and delayed decisions on appeals: big verdict today

  The Supreme Court will decide today on whether a death sentence can be commuted to life imprisonment because of a delay in execution.

• Another seven mercy petitions sent to President Pranab Mukherjee for decision

  Expediting the pending mercy petitions, the Home Ministry has sent to the President for final decision on seven cases of multiple murders, including one in which a convict who was out on bail on rape charge killed five members of victim's family.

• Mercy pleas of four Veerappan associates rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee: report

  The mercy pleas of sandalwood smuggler Veerapan's four associates, sentenced to death in a 1993 landmine blast case, have been rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee, a human rights activist said here today.

• Afzal Guru hanged in Delhi for Parliament attack

  Afzal Guru, convicted for his role in the attack on Parliament in December 2001, was executed at 8 this morning and has been buried at Delhi's Tihar Jail.

• Afzal Guru hanged in Delhi for Parliament attack

  Afzal Guru hanged: Afzal Guru, convicted for his role in the attack on Parliament in December 2001, was executed at 8 this morning and has been buried at Delhi's Tihar Jail.

• Digvijaya Singh in favour of 'early hanging' of Afzal Guru

  Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh today said he was in "favour of early hanging of Afzal Guru", who has been sentenced to death by the Supreme Court in the Parliament attack case.

• Decision on Afzal Guru to be taken after Parliament session: Sushil Kumar Shinde

  Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday said that decision on the mercy petition of Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru will be taken only after the Winter Session of Parliament.

• Sushil Kumar Shinde to look at Afzal Guru's mercy petition after Parliament session

  Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday said he will have a look at the mercy petition of Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru only after the Winter Session of Parliament.

• Reject Afzal Guru's mercy plea: Bal Thackeray appeals to Pranab Mukherjee

  A day after former Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee won the Presidential race, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray urged him to reject the mercy petition of Afzal Guru, convicted for a terror attack on Parliament in 2001, a brazen assault in which 12 people were killed when Parliament was in session.

• President's challenges will include what next for mercy petition of Afzal Guru

  Pranab Mukherjee, the man who will be India's 13th president, has tough choices to make when he takes office on July 25.

• Govt says it's waiting for President's decision on Afzal Guru

  Under fire from the Opposition over delay in carrying out the death sentence of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, the government today put the onus on President Pratibha Patil saying a decision on the issue has to be taken by her.

• What if we passed Guru Resolution, asks Omar

  Barely hours after the Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a resolution urging the President to review the death sentence of Rajiv Gandhi's killers, came a tweet from the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. "If the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly had passed a resolution similar to the Tamil Nadu one for Afzal Guru, would the reaction have been as mut...

• Govt's decision on Afzal Guru badly timed: Dilip Padgaonkar

  Afzal Guru's mercy petition: The decision of the Ministry of Home Affairs to ask President Pratibha Patil to reject Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's mercy petition is badly timed, says Kashmir interlocutor Dilip Padgaonkar.