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This is all motivated reporting. India has such a strong and independent judicial system which does its job. If any charges are put incorrectly then courts will grant relief. India is democratic country.

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Ah yes the very same independent judicial system whose last Chief Justice is now a member of parliament. yes sir, very independent indeed.

>India has such a strong and independent judicial system which does its job.

Eh... no it does not. The Supreme Court has capitulated; it rubber stamps anything coming out of Modi Inc. Do you not follow whats going on?

Why don't you address all of the issues that the parent poster bought up?

After seeing what this organization did when Bolsonaro got elected here in Brazil, unfortunately I can not say I believe anything that comes out of it. It's a politically biased organization, therefore you always must take any stance they take with a lot of grains of salt.

According to AlJazeera, Afzal Guru is just a "Kashmiri separatist". I guess they missed the part where he was convicted for attacking the Indian parliament[1]. Interesting that Amnesty International questioned the way he was tried and punished[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Indian_Parliament_attack

2. https://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/india-ne...

Also interesting that they did not find a shred of evidence in that case. In fact the order mentioned that he was convicted to placate the “conscience of the nation”.

“The incident, which resulted in heavy casualties, had shaken the entire nation and the collective conscience of the society will only be satisfied if the capital punishment is awarded to the offender.”: [1]

[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/parliament-attac...

when was he hanged?

Supreme court had concluded that he arranged logistics and explosives for the attackers. I am not sure how they arrived at that conclusion without a "shred of evidence".

https://scroll.in/article/805427/the-quick-guide-to-sar-gila...

I meant that all the evidence was circumstantial, which was admitted by even the court.

Isn't this the entire reason we need groups like Amnesty International present, or do you think they're bias/compromised as well?

But Afzal was hanged when India was ruled by Congress. And all parties including Far left supported it. So that case cannot be used to measure judiciary sleeping with present government.

My comment did not talk about the judiciary. It was more about just calling Afzal Guru a separatist.

I don't think the judiciary is sleeping with the government. In recent times, they have given verdicts like the decriminalization of homosexual relationships and abolishing of Triple Talaq. I do agree that they should be more proactive. One reason for them being a bit soft on the government is that the current government has stuff like NJAC in their arsenal, which threatens to dilute the power of the judiciary. While NJAC was declared unconstitutional by the SC some years back, the current leadership can still bring it back by mobilizing support for it.

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