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                                                                                                                    Despite gaping holes in the case against Afzal Guru, all India's institutions played a part in putting a Kashmiri 'terrorist' to death By Arundhati Roy Spring announced itself in Delhi on Saturday. The sun was out, and the law took its course. Just before breakfast, the government of India secretly  hanged Afzal Guru , prime accused in the attack on parliament in December 2001, and interred his body in Delhi's Tihar jail where he had been in solitary confinement for 12 years. Guru's wife and son were not informed. "The authorities intimated the family through speed post and registered post," the home secretary told the press, "the director general of the Jammu and Kashmir [J&K] police has been told to check whether they got it or not". No big deal, they're only the family of yet another Kashmiri terrorist.

Dileep Padgaonkar   Is an individual who holds a quasi-judicial position entitled to air his political views in public? On the face of it, that is the nub of the controversy that has pitted Justice Markandey Katju, chairman of the Press Council of India, against Arun Jaitley, leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. Much like civil servants and officers of the armed forces and the police, government-appointed heads of statutory bodies are obliged to abide by the principle that they need to be discreet about matters that fall outside their remit. As citizens they are of course free to exercise their political preferences when they cast their ballot in a polling booth. But outside the booth, they must be seen to be impartial. Otherwise their conduct is bound to be suspect in the eyes of a section of opinion. That principle has however often been observed in the breach. The former army chief, Gen. V.K. Singh, often spoke out of turn as does, Vinod Rai, the present CAG. The PCI

GNS Jammu, Feb, 21:- Rani  Billoria who was elected unopposed as Member Legislative Council  elected  today , warmly welcomed at the PCC HQ. Shaheedi Chowk, Jammu by the party workers. Billoria  declared elected after the last date of withdrawal by the returning officer, soon thereafter she visited the party headquarter along with party workers. She was welcomed at the party HQ. by the senior leaders of PCC and Mahila leaders. A function was held to celebrate the unopposed election of MS Billoria. The function was presided over by S.Gurmukh Singh Ex-Minister and Vice President PCC,  which was attended by Sham Lal Sharma Minister for PHE, Irrigation & Flood Control, MLC  G.N. Monga-Vice President PCC, MLC Ravinder Sharma-General Secretary & Chief Spokesperson PCC,  Gulam Nabi Mir Lasjan-General Secretary PCC, Ex-Mayor Narinder Singh,  Shiv Kumar Sharma-President INTUC, S.R.Sudhir, Working President DCC Jammu Urban D.S.Langeh, MS Lalita Sharma, B.B.Gupta, Mian Nazir Ahmed,