In 2001, India's parliament was attacked by two Pakistan-based terrorist groups Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) on December 13. The attack had left the entire nation aghast and further strained the relationship between the two neighbouring countries. As India marked 21 years of the cowardly terror attack, let us take a look back on what happened that day
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4. There were about 100 members of parliament in the building at the time of the attack, although no one was hurt.
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8. The terrorists could not enter the parliament building as all five terrorists were killed outside the parliament.
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10. At least 15 other people were injured in the attack but the 100 or so ministers and MPs in Parliament at the time were unhurt.
11. As per the Delhi Police investigation, the names of the five terrorists were: Hamza, Haider alias Tufail, Rana, Ranvijay and Mohammed.
12. Further investigation identified their Indian as associates as Mohammad Afzal Guru, a former JKLF militant who had surrendered in 1994; his cousin Shaukat Husain Guru, Shaukat’s wife Afsan Guru and S A R Geelani, a lecturer of Arabic at Delhi University.
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14. Geelani was acquitted for “need of evidence” by the Delhi high court in 2003, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court in 2005 and Shaukat was given 10 years in prison.
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