In Tihar, officials feel tinge of sorrow

February 11, 2013 11:17

Update on the big news over the weekend -- the execution of Afzal Guru.

'Al vida', said Afzal Guru to his executioner, who had himself bid him goodbye with the same words a few seconds earlier. And then as the executioner pulled a lever, Afzal's frame hung from the gallows.

"He was dead in a minute, though," as per the jail norms, the body was kept hanging for a full half hour, said an official who witnessed the hanging. Read

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