“Very few officers were told about the decision. Three doctors and a maulvi, who performed his last rites, were informed secretly a night before. They were asked to come early Saturday morning,” an official said
The motive for giving a secret code name to this operation was to prevent word of the impending hanging from getting around.
Afzal Guru performed his morning prayers and read a few pages of the Holy Quran. On the morning of his execution, he was calm and greeted officials, many whom he addressed by their first names.
He was buried near his cell. His family has demanded that they be allowed to conduct his last rites while officials said that the government would take a decision in this regard.
Afzal Guru had been convicted of plotting the Dec 13, 2001, attack on parliament.
