In the first place I congratulate Sri. Pranab Mukherjee, The President of India for making way to Execute Kasab by Rejecting the mercy petition.
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| Hanged on 21 November 2012 at 7:30 A.M. |
Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab; (13 September 1987 - 21 November 2012) was a terrorist who was involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks in India. Kasab was the only attacker captured alive by police. The Government of Pakistan initially denied that Kasab was from Pakistan, but in January 2009, they officially accepted that he was a Pakistani citizen. On 3 May 2010, an Indian court convicted him of murder, waging war on India, possessing explosives, and other charges. On 6 May 2010, the same trial court sentenced him to death on four counts and to a life sentence on five other counts. Kasab was sentenced to death for attacking Mumbai and killing 166 people on 26 November 2008 along with nine terrorists. He was found guilty of 80 offences, including waging war against the nation, which is punishable by the death penalty. Kasab's death sentence was upheld by the Court on 21 February 2011. The verdict was upheld by the Supreme Court of India on 29 August 2012. hanged on 21 November 2012 at 7:30 A.M. 52nd person on Death row in India.
He was one of the costlier prisoner, Governmnet has spend 35 crores for the security of kasab so for.
Ajmal Kasab is alleged to be among a group of 24 men who received training in marine warfare at a remote camp in mountainousMuzaffarabad in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. Part of the training is reported to have taken place on the Mangla Dam reservoir.
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a senior commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, reportedly offered to pay his family Rs. 150,000 for his participation in the attacks. Another report said the 23-year-old was recruited from his home, in part, based on a pledge by recruiters to pay Rs. 100,000 to his family when he became a martyr. Other sources put the reward to US $4,000.
Kasab was captured on CCTV during his attacks at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus along with another terrorist, Ismail Khan. Kasab reportedly told the police that they wanted to replicate the Islamabad Marriott hotel attack, and reduce the Taj Hotel to rubble, replicating the 9/11 attacks in India.
Kasab and his accomplice Abu Dera Ismail Khan, then aged 25, attacked the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus) railway station. They then moved on to attack a police vehicle (a white Toyota Qualis) at Cama Hospital, in which senior Mumbai police officers (Maharashtra ATS Chief Hemant Karkare, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and Additional Commissioner of Mumbai Police Ashok Kamte) were travelling. After killing them in a gun battle and taking two constables hostage in the Qualis, Kasab and Ismail Khan drove towards Metro cinema. Kasab joked about the bulletproof vests worn by the police and killed one constable when his mobile phone rang. They fired some shots into a crowd gathered at Metro Cinema. They then drove towards Vidhan Bhavan where they fired a few more shots. Their vehicle had a tire puncture, so they stole a silver Škoda Laura and drove towards Girgaum Chowpatty.
Earlier, the D B Marg police had got a message from police control at about 10 pm; say that two heavily armed men were at large after gunning down commuters at CST. 15 policemen from D B Marg were sent to Chowpatty where they set up a double barricade on Marine Drive armed with two self-loading rifles , two revolvers and lathis (batons).
The Škoda reached Chowpatty and halted 40 to 50 feet from the barricade. It then reversed and tried to make a U-turn. A shootout ensued and Ismail Khan was killed. Kasab lay motionless playing dead. Assistant sub-inspector Tukaram Omble, who was armed only with a lathi, was killed when the police charged the car. Omble took five bullets, but held on to Kasab's weapon, enabling his colleagues to capture him alive. A mob gathered and attacked the two terrorists. This incident was captured on video.
Some reports said that Ajmal Kasab was shot and had bullet wounds in his hand or both hands. There are other reports by doctors who treated him that he had no bullet wounds.
While it is reported that he told the police that he was trained to "kill to the last breath", when he was arrested, he pleaded with the medical staff: "I do not want to die. Put me on saline". Later, after interrogation in the hospital by the police, he said: "Now, I do not want to live", requesting the interrogators to kill him for the safety of his family in Pakistan who could be killed or tortured for his surrender to Indian police. Fidayeen suicide squad terrorists are strictly instructed by Lashkar commanders not to be captured and interrogated, use aliases instead of their real names and hide their nationality. He is also quoted as saying "I have done right, I have no regrets". Reports also surfaced that the group planned to escape safely after the attack, ruling out this being a suicide mission.
Kasab has told interrogators that right through the fighting, the Lashkar headquarters from Karachi, Pakistan, remained in touch with the group, calling their phones through a voice-over-internet service. Investigators have succeeded in reconstructing the group's journey through the Garmin GPS set that has been seized from him. The mail sent from a bogus group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen claiming responsibility has been traced to a Russian proxy which was then traced back to Lahore with the help of the FBI. It was in fact the Lashkar-e-Taiba operating under an alternate name after being banned by U.S.
The Supreme Court of India on 29 August 2012 confirmed the death sentence for Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving member of the Pakistani Lashkar gang that brutalized Mumbai on 26/11 killing 166 persons.
Upholding the award of death penalty on five counts, the court said the "enormity of the crime in all scales" left it with no other option. On 18 September 2012 Kasab moved a mercy petition before the President of India after he was handed the certified copy of his death sentence. The Home Ministry rejected the mercy petition.
The President of India rejected his petition on 20 November 2012 and he was eventually executed on 21 November 2012 in Yerwada Jail in Pune, at 7.30 AM.
The execution of Kasab has given Justice for the Sacrifice of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Police Officers Hemanth Karkare, Vijay Sasalkar, Ashok Kamte and Thukaram Omble. Even though the execution of kasab has given the happiness to Indians and the family of 26/11 martyrs’ it is also more important and time to execute one more Pakistani Terrorist Mohammed Afzal, who attacked our Parliament on December 13th 2001.
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War Regards,
Balaji S
Member, National Executive Coucil,
ABVP, Bangalore.
