{"id":650,"date":"2014-02-20T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/guru-was-hanged-with-omars-consent-sar-geelani\/"},"modified":"2014-02-20T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T15:20:00","slug":"guru-was-hanged-with-omars-consent-sar-geelani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Guru was hanged with Omar\u2019s consent: SAR Geelani"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Srinagar: <\/b>Claiming that chief minister Omar Abdullah was privy to the decision on Afzal Guru\u2019s hanging, Professor SAR Geelani Thursday alleged that Omar was called to Delhi for a detailed meet, a week before Guru was executed.
\u201cThe pro-India politicians in Kashmir had full knowledge about the exact date of Guru\u2019s hanging and they all had given their consent for the same,\u201d Geelani, who was acquitted by the Supreme Court in Parliament attack case claimed in a telephonic statement to KNS from Delhi.
\u201cThis chest beating at present is nothing but an election gimmick. Farooq Abdullah stated at the time of Guru\u2019s hanging that justice has been delivered and now he is taking a U-turn as elections are near.\u201d Geelani stated further that Guru\u2019s hanging has changed all the equations in Kashmir and that now educated youth are joining the militant ranks. \u201dWe have seen that the youth who are taking arms against Indian rule are not among an unemployed lot- they are well informed and well educated.\u201d
Reacting to the Supreme Court judgment that commuted death sentence of Rajiv Gandhi\u2019s assassins to life in prison, Geelani stated that double standards adopted by the Judiciary have given the clear message to the people of Kashmir that they are living in the colony.\u201dPeople of Kashmir have not understood where they stand.\u201d
He added that Guru was hanged because \u2018he was a Muslim and that too from Kashmir\u2019. \u201cIt is not only Guru\u2019s hanging but also Maqbool Bhat was sent to gallows in the same manner.\u201d For the death sentence, you need the confirmation of the high court and in Bhat\u2019s case, no confirmation was sought, said Geelani, adding that according t the law, death sentence is only given in the rarest of the rare case that too when the guilt of the accused is established beyond reasonable doubt.
He said that even the Delhi high court had stated that Police fabricated the evidence and forged the documents. \u201cThen how Guru was hanged is beyond anyone\u2019s logic. The people have understood now that how Guru was picked up against the queue- this is because India wants to give clear message to the people here that Kashmir is our colony and  whosever rebels against our occupation will be killed like Guru.\u201d
Stating that the decision of Supreme Court of commuting the death sentence into life imprisonment of Rajiv Gandhi\u2019s assassins on one side and hanging of Guru on the other is unjustified, Geelani stated that its repercussions will be disastrous in Kashmir valley.  \u201cSee the number of militancy related incidents have taken place since Guru\u2019s hanging.  India has given clear signal to the people of Kashmir that it is at war against the people here.\u201d (KNS)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srinagar: Claiming that chief minister Omar Abdullah was privy to the decision on Afzal Guru\u2019s hanging, Professor SAR Geelani Thursday alleged that Omar was called to Delhi for a detailed meet, a week before Guru was executed.\u201cThe pro-India politicians in Kashmir had full knowledge about the exact date of Guru\u2019s hanging and they all had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}