Here's the status on the Afzal Guru case: The mercy plea of of Mohd Afzal Guru is among 14 other such applications pending decision by President Pratibha Patil.  Replying to an RTI query, the President Secretariat declined to disclose copies of correspondence and file notings related to Guru's clemency petition, saying they were "records of deliberations of the Council of Ministers, secretaries and other officers".

The President's office had received a total of 27 mercy pleas, including the one from three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, between 2008 and 2011.

Of them, three were rejected and death sentence to 10 others was commuted to life imprisonment. 14 other pleas were pending decision.  

Here's a tweet by Satish Acharya: The only Guru who has mastered the ART OF LIVING is #Afzal Guru!