ON 13 DECEMBER 2001 THE INDIAN PARLIAMENT WAS ATTACKED BY FIVE-SOME SAY SIX-HEAVILY ARMED MEN FIVE YEARS LATER WE STILL DO NOT KNOW WHO WAS BEHIND THE ATTACK NOR THE IDENTITY OF THE ATTACKERS BOTH THE DELHI HIGH COURT AND THE SUPREME COURT HAVE NOTED THAT THE POLICE VIOLATED LEGAL SAFEGUARDS FABRICATED EVIDENCE AND EXTRACTED FALSE CONFESSIONS, YET, ONE MAN MOHAMMAD AFZAL HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING TO 'SATISFY' THE 'COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE OF SOCIETY