Summary Afzal Guru had always denied plotting the attack.
NEW DELHI: A fruit seller sentenced to death over a 2001 plot to attack India s parliament has been hanged after his final clemency plea was rejected.
Officials said Mohammed Afzal Guru was executed at Tihar jail on the outskirts of Delhi.
Afzal Guru had always denied plotting the attack, which killed nine people.
Security has been stepped up and a curfew announced in Indian occupied Kashmir, where news of the execution was expected to spark unrest.
Executions are very rare in India - Afzal Guru s was only the second since 2004, after Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving attacker from the 2008 Mumbai attack was executed in November.
