Afzal Guru: Kashmir's Omar Abdullah criticises hanging

The chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir state has criticised the secretive hanging of Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri militant sentenced to death over the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament.

Omar Abdullah also questioned why Guru "wasn't given the opportunity to see his family for the last time".

Mr Abdullah said the execution was likely to "fuel a feeling of alienation among the Kashmiri youth".

Guru was hanged on Saturday after his final clemency plea was rejected.

He had been on death row since 2002 and was executed at Tihar jail in Delhi.

Guru had always denied plotting the attack, which left 14 dead, including five militants.

Security has been stepped up across India and an indefinite curfew is in place in Indian-administered Kashmir, where news of the execution sparked protests. One man was killed during protests on Sunday.

Until recently, executions were rarely carried out in India.

But Guru's hanging was the second in the last three months - Mohammed Ajmal Qasab, the sole surviving attacker from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was executed in November in a prison in the western city of Pune.