On 13 December 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by a few heavily armed men. Eleven years later, the person behind the attack and the identity of the attackers was still unknown. Both the Delhi high court and the Supreme Court of India noted that the police violated legal safeguards, fabricated evidence and extracted false confessions. Yet, on 9 February 2013, one man, Mohammad Afzal Guru, was hanged to satisfy the collective conscience of society. This book brings together essays by lawyers, academics, journalists and writers who have looked closely at the available facts and raised serious questions about the investigations and the trial while examining the implications of Guru’s hanging and the relevance of the Kashmir relationship.