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Supreme Court upholds Kasab's death sentence
Wednesday August 29, 2012 12:08:43 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court Wednesday upheld the death sentence of Ajmal Kasab, the only
surviving Pakistani terrorist behind the 26/11 Mumbai strike that
claimed 166 lives.
"We are constrained to hold that the death penalty is the only
sentence that can given in the circumstances of the case," the
apex court bench of Justices Aftab Alam and C.K. Prasad said.
Kasab, one of the 10 Pakistanis who sneaked into Mumbai on the
night of Nov 26, 2008 for a terror siege of the city that ended on
Nov 29 afternoon, had moved the apex court challenging the death
sentence by a trial court, which was later upheld by the Bombay
High Court.
The court rejected Kasab's contention that the Mumbai terror
attack was a war against the government of India and not against
the Indian state or its people.
The court said the government of India was only the elected organ
of the state and the repository of the sovereign powers.
Having said this, the court added: "Primary and foremost offence
by the accused (Kasab) was waging war against India."
The high court had upheld Kasab's death penalty Feb 21, 2011.
Kasab was sent to the gallows by a Mumbai trial court May 6, 2010.
Besides other charges, he was convicted for waging war against the
nation.
An apex court had reserved the verdict on the conclusion of
arguments that spread over nearly three months, starting Jan 31.
Kasab and his nine associates who had sailed from Karachi reached
Mumbai after they hijacked private Indian ship M.B. Kuber and
killed its navigator Amar Chand Solanki.
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