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Pune:
Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani terrorist
responsible for the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, was hanged at
Pune's Yerawada Jail Wednesday morning, Maharashtra Home Minister
R.R. Patil said.
"All the legal procedures in the 26/11 terror attacks case were
completed. He was sentenced by the trial court, which was upheld
by the Bombay High Court, Supreme Court, and his mercy plea was
rejected by the president. Accordingly, Kasab has been hanged this
morning at 7.30 a.m. in Yerawada Central Jail," Patil told
mediapersons.
Kasab's mercy petition was rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee
Tuesday night. Shortly thereafter, in the dead of the night, Kasab
was shifted amid top secrecy and tight security to Pune's
high-security Yerawada jail.
This morning, at 7.30 a.m., he was hanged in the jail premises
after which a team of doctors declared him dead.
"The punishment to Kasab is a true tribute to the victims and
martyrs of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks," Patil said.
It is not known where Kasab's last rites shall be conducted.
"Yes, Kasab has been hanged this (Wednesday) morning at 7.30 a.m.
in Yerawada Central Jail," Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam,
who led the 26/11 terror attacks case, told IANS.
In January 2010, nine of Kasab's associates, who had sneaked into
Mumbai on the night of Nov 26, 2008, to unleash three days of
terror, were quietly buried at an undisclosed location near
Mumbai.
Kasab's end came just five days before the fourth anniversary of
the brutal terror attacks that killed 166 lives and injured 300.
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