Srinagar, Feb 4 : Tabassum Guru, wife of martyred Muhammad Afzal Guru of Doadgah Sopore who was hanged to death on February 9 2013 in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail, has said that she doesn’t expect justice from New Delhi or its regime in Kashmir but would continue its voice to demand the return of her husband’s body till her death.
Tabassum Guru while talking to media men in Srinagar said, ” my husband is a Shaheed (martyr) and everybody knows this. It GOI will return the body, I wish to be buried besides his grave”.
They tried to get back Afzal’s body, however there was no reply from Government of India. “My written request for the return of the body has not been replied till this day,” Tabassum said, adding that questions by her son Ghalib worry her. “He always asks me about his father. He was not allowed to meet his father before the hanging and this is the question I have to confront,” she said.
Tabassum said they tried to get back Afzal’s body, however there was no reply from Government of India. “My written request for the return of the body has not been replied till this day,” she said. “I do not expect any justice neither from Government of India nor from its regime in Kashmir,” Tabassum said.
She said she or her son won’t visit Tihar Jail on the death anniversary of her husband. “Why should we go? There is no expectation from Government of India. They did not allow my 14-year old son to meet his father before hanging him,” she said.
“One day people will get the remains of Afzal and he will be buried here with an epitaph on his grave,” she said, adding her wait for the body will never die out till her last breath.
She blamed Omar Abdullah for hanging of her husband. “Omar Abdullah signed the death warrant a month before hanging of my husband. He knew it all along,” she said, adding Omar Abdullah did not even ask the Center to allow a meeting between Afzal and his family.
“They are befooling the people of Kashmir. Omar just shed crocodile tears after the hanging of my husband.”
She said now the Government of India has given relief to the assassins of Rajiv Gandhi and Beant Singh who were also given death sentence. “Afzal Sahib was hanged because he was a Muslim,” she said. Source news papers srinagar.