India, Sept. 24 -- The Delhi high court has dismissed a petition seeking the removal of the graves of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru and JKLF founder Mohammad Maqbool Bhat from the premises of Tihar Jail. Both were awarded the death penalty and executed inside the prison.

The court observed that such matters involved sensitive decisions taken by the government at the time of execution, and reopening them after more than a decade was not appropriate.

It opined that only the competent authority could decide on such issues, and judicial intervention was unwarranted in the absence of a specific law barring burial or cremation inside prison premises.

"But removing a grave which has existed for the last 12 years... The governm...