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Afzal Guru's son scores 95% marks in class 10 exams

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Dubai - Afzal Guru was hanged to death in February 2013 following his conviction in the parliament attack case in India.

Published: Mon 11 Jan 2016, 2:06 PM

Updated: Mon 6 Dec 2021, 9:14 AM

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Galib Afzal Guru, the son of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru who was hanged three years back, has scored 95 per cent marks in class 10 exams conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Examination.

Galib scored an A1 in all the subjects, and secured a total of 474 marks out of 500.

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His father, Afzal Guru, was hanged to death on February 9, 2013 following his conviction in the Parliament attack case in India.

"We are a normal family. I want my son to lead a normal life. We have nothing to do with politics," Galib's mother Tabasum told Hindustan Times.

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In a 2013 interview to Kashmiri news outlet Kashmir Monitor quoted by Hindustan Times, Ghalib had said that he wanted to be a doctor.

"Papa knew that I want to become a doctor and would always tell me to work hard. He used to repeat this whenever I visited him in jail," said Ghalib, who loves reading science books and playing cricket, the report said.

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