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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
Mumbai: A special court on Monday convicted 26/11 Mumbai attack accused Ajmal Amir Kasab and charged him for killing 166 people and waging war on India.
The verdict, which comes 17 months after the attack, is one of the fastest criminal trials in India.
Justice ML Tahiliyani read out the much-awaited verdict.
Kasab’s co-accused Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed have been acquitted.
A huge charge sheet running into more than 11,000 pages, containing 2,000 witness' statements and naming 35 Pakistani nationals as wanted accused, was filed by the Mumbai crime branch on February 25, 2009.
The 86 charges against Kasab and his co-accused were framed by the special sessions court on May 6, 2009 and a day later the first of the around 658 witnesses, which inlcuded some FBI agents, gave their testimony.
The special court issued non-bailable warrants against 22 accused including Hafeez Saeed, leader of a charity widely considered to be a cover organization for militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Zaki-Ur-Rehman Lakhvi, founding member and supreme commander of operations in Kashmir of the LeT, in June 2009
Concluding the final arguments on March 23, 2010, the prosecution submitted around 657 pages of written argument and evidence in the form of CCTV footage, telephonic intercepts, forensic and scientific reports and is seeking the death penalty for Kasab.
On multiple occasions, throughout the trial, Kasab changed his statements. He voluntarily confessed before the magistrate on February 21, 2009 but only to retract it days later and plead not guilty to all the charges on May 6, 2009.
Again on July 20, 2009 Kasab backed out of his not-guilty pleas and gave detailed insight into the preparation, training, planning and execution of the terror attacks.
Then double-backing yet another time,in December 2009, Kasab claimed his innocence and claimed he came to India via Samjhauta Express, and that police picked him up while he was roaming around Juhu chowpatty.
Mumbai: A special court on Monday convicted 26/11 Mumbai attack accused Ajmal Amir Kasab and charged him for killing 166 people and waging war on India. The verdict, which comes 17 months after the attack, is one of the fastest criminal trials in India. Justice ML Tahiliyani read out the...
Mumbai: A special court on Monday convicted 26/11 Mumbai attack accused Ajmal Amir Kasab and charged him for killing 166 people and waging war on India.
The verdict, which comes 17 months after the attack, is one of the fastest criminal trials in India.
Justice ML Tahiliyani read out the much-awaited verdict.
Kasab’s co-accused Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed have been acquitted.
A huge charge sheet running into more than 11,000 pages, containing 2,000 witness' statements and naming 35 Pakistani nationals as wanted accused, was filed by the Mumbai crime branch on February 25, 2009.
The 86 charges against Kasab and his co-accused were framed by the special sessions court on May 6, 2009 and a day later the first of the around 658 witnesses, which inlcuded some FBI agents, gave their testimony.
The special court issued non-bailable warrants against 22 accused including Hafeez Saeed, leader of a charity widely considered to be a cover organization for militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Zaki-Ur-Rehman Lakhvi, founding member and supreme commander of operations in Kashmir of the LeT, in June 2009
Concluding the final arguments on March 23, 2010, the prosecution submitted around 657 pages of written argument and evidence in the form of CCTV footage, telephonic intercepts, forensic and scientific reports and is seeking the death penalty for Kasab.
On multiple occasions, throughout the trial, Kasab changed his statements. He voluntarily confessed before the magistrate on February 21, 2009 but only to retract it days later and plead not guilty to all the charges on May 6, 2009.
Again on July 20, 2009 Kasab backed out of his not-guilty pleas and gave detailed insight into the preparation, training, planning and execution of the terror attacks.
Then double-backing yet another time,in December 2009, Kasab claimed his innocence and claimed he came to India via Samjhauta Express, and that police picked him up while he was roaming around Juhu chowpatty.
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