India, Sept. 24 -- The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition seeking removal of graves of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) founder Mohammad Maqbool Bhatt, who were awarded death penalty and executed in Tihar jail, from the prison premises, observing that the decision to bury them within the prison was a sensitive call taken by the government at the time of their execution and could not be revisited after more than a decade. Bhatt was hanged on February 11, 1984 while Guru was executed in February 2013.

Dealing with a plea filed by Vishwa Vedic Sanatan Sangh and one Jitendra Singh, a bench of chief justice DK Upadhyay and justice Tushar Rao Gedela opined that only the com...