Srinagar: Curfew has been imposed on Srinagar on Saturday morning after Afzal Guru was  hanged to death early in the morning at Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
Mohammad Afzal Guru was allegedly found guilty of conspiracy in the December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament and was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of India in 2002.
The sentence was scheduled to be carried out on 20 October 2006, but Afzal was given a stay of execution and remained on death row. On 3 February 2013, his mercy petition was rejected by the President of India. He was hanged at Delhi’s Tihar Jail around 08:00am on February 9, 2013.
Dispatch News Desk (DND) Correspondent from Srinagar maintained that formal curfew order is ter to release by District Administration but police has already erected barricades across main entry roads and in the city to prevent any possible demonstrations against the execution and people are asked to stay at their homes. He also said that police halicopters are hovering in sky.
