Sunday, November 7, 2010

Ajmal Kasab, Fate To Be Decided Today

Ajmal Kasab, Fate To Be Decided TodayAjmal Kasab, It will be the judgement day tomorrow for the enactors of the 26/11 attacks, including the lone surviving Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, who unleashed terror on the financial capital of the country and gunned down 173 people, including foreigners at multiple locations.

The special court, presided over by Additional Sessions Judge ML Tahaliyani, inside the high security Arthur Road prison will deliver the judgement, almost 17 months after the dastardly attack on the city that sent ripples of shock across the globe.

However, the sentence might be decided at a later date. In the dock, besides Kasab, will be two Indians Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed, the co-conspirators who were accused of providing maps and topographical details to the Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba to carry out the attacks.

The trial concluded on March 31.

The three accused awaiting conviction face multiple charges, including waging war against the nation and criminal conspiracy. Kasab faces several counts of murder and attempt to murder. The 26/11 Mumbai attacks included more than ten coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai, India’s largest city, by the terrorists from Pakistan.

The attacks that began on November 26, 2008 lasted till November 28.

Eight of the attacks occurred in South Mumbai at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the Oberoi Trident, the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, Leopold Cafe, Cama Hospital , the Jewish-owned Nariman House, the Metro Cinema, a lane behind the Times of India building and St Xavier’s College.

There was also an explosion at Mazagaon, in south Mumbai which is Mumbai’s port area and in a taxi at Vile Parle in the suburbs.

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