Mohammed Afzal Guru.
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 the border state of 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.
Pakistan-backed attack?
The December 2001 attack was one of the most controversial incidents in recent Indian history, correspondents say.
Five rebels stormed India's parliament in New Delhi on 13 December 2001, killing a gardener and eight policemen before they were shot dead by security forces.
India blamed the attack on the Jaish-e-Mohammed militant group, which it said was backed by Pakistan.
Pakistan denied involvement in the attack but relations between the two countries nosedived as their armies massed about a million troops along the border.
Afzal Guru was one of two men sentenced to death for helping plan the attack, although the sentence of Shaukat Hussain was later reduced on appeal to 10 years in jail.
Two other people accused in the case, SAR Geelani and Afsan Guru, were acquitted due to a lack of evidence.
Afzal Guru's appeal was first refused by the Supreme Court and then the president.
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