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'Attack on unity, sovereignty of India', SC affirms death penalty for Red Fort attack accused
2022-11-04
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Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT) terrorist Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq, a Pakistain national, had filed a review petition against capital punishment for the December 2000 Red Fort attack


Arif, a Pakistain national, was held guilty of murder, criminal conspiracy, and waging war against the country. The bench concluded there is nothing on record which can be taken to be a mitigating circumstance in favour of the review petitioner.

"The suggestion that there is a possibility of retribution and rehabilitation, is not made out from and supported by any material on record," said Chief Justice Lalit, who authored the judgment on behalf of the bench.

The Chief Justice said in conclusion, it must therefore be observed that even after eschewing circumstances, which were directly attributable to the CDRs relied upon by the prosecution, the other circumstances on record do clearly spell out and prove beyond any doubt the involvement of the review petitioner in the crime in question.

Referring to judgment in Mohd Ajmal Amir Kasab case (2008 Mumbai terror attack) (2012), the bench said: "when there is challenge to the unity, integrity and illusory sovereignty of India by acts of terrorism, such acts are taken as the most aggravating circumstances. It is well accepted that the cumulative effect of the aggravating factors and the mitigating circumstances must be taken into account before the death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
is awarded."

The bench noted that there were other circumstances, including a disclosure statement by the convict, which led to an encounter at Batla house and killing of Abu Shamal alias Faisal, which went against the convict.

"The disclosure statement led the police to the hideout at G-73, Batla House, New Delhi and when the police team arrived with the review petitioner, there was firing upon the police team.. After the person concerned named Abu Shamal alias Faisal died in the encounter, certain firearms and ammunition were recovered. The submission that such recovery of ammunition or the encounter of Abu Shamal could not be associated with the disclosure statement of the review petitioner is not quite correct," said the bench.

In the Red Fort attack, three people, including two Army jawans, were killed.

In August 2011, the Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
confirmed the death sentence of arrested LeT terrorist Mohammad Arif for carrying out the December 2000 Red Fort attack. The apex court also dismissed his review petition later in August 2011. However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
in 2016, the apex court decided to re-hear his review petition.

In November 2005, the trial court had awarded Arif a death sentence. The trial court had also fined Arif Rs 4.35 lakh for the attack that left two Rajputana Rifles jawans and a civilian dead. The Delhi High Court, in 2007, upheld the death sentence to Arif
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India-Pakistan
Kasab: the Mumbai gunman awaiting hanging
2012-08-30
[Dawn] Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, labelled the "Butcher of Mumbai", is a school drop-out waiting to be hanged in India for his role in the 2008 attacks on the city.

The 24-year-old Pak national was one of two heavily armed gunnies who opened fire and threw hand grenades at Mumbai's main railway station on November 26, 2008, killing 52 people and wounding more than 100.

He was allegedly born in the dusty village of Faridkot in a remote and impoverished region of Punjab in Pakistain's farming belt, home to 10,000 people, most of them farmers and labourers and few of them literate.

His father, Mohammed Amir Iman, ran a food stall in the village.

Kasab dropped out of school in 2000 and worked as a labourer in the eastern city of Lahore until 2005, according to his initial confession to police, which was widely published in India.

He first pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
but later made a confession, admitting being one of the 10 gunnies trained, equipped and financed by the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LeT).

Kasab reportedly said he joined LeT to get weapons training after deciding to embark on a life of crime but there have also been claims that his father duped him into doing it for money.

The Supreme Court in New Delhi on Wednesday upheld his death sentence, leaving him with a final appeal to the president to save him from death by hanging.

"He fits the profile if you look at the Islamic fascisti recruited by Lashkar-e-Taiba," Wilson John, senior fellow at New Delhi's Observer Research Foundation and a specialist in beturbanned goon groups, told AFP.

"They come from lower-middle class or poor families. They're not entirely uneducated, just a little bit educated; they're unemployed and looking for a job. They're not religiously inclined but they can be brainwashed.

"He was a prime target." When his trial began in 2009, Kasab at first appeared relaxed, dressed in either a T-shirt and tracksuit bottoms or a traditional kurta-pyjama, joking or smiling at lawyers and news hounds.

But he seemed increasingly sullen, withdrawn and even asleep as the trial progressed, prompting fears for his mental state. He showed no emotion in the dock when he was pronounced guilty of murder and waging war on India.

Since his conviction, he has been held in a high-security jail in Mumbai.

When his Supreme Court appeal began in January, he issued a statement saying he had been denied a fair trial.

Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam characterised Kasab as a shrewd and calculating operative, describing him as a "human shape" with no feelings or emotion.

While pushing for the death penalty, Nikam dwelt on the apparent smile Kasab wore while firing on travellers in the train station and his reported regret at arriving late at the target because he had missed the commuter rush.

His defence lawyer, K. P. Pawar, sought to persuade the court that Kasab was a susceptible young man who had been brainwashed.

"He was mentally defective (at the time of the attacks) and the effect impaired his ability to appreciate the impact of his conduct," Pawar told the court during discussions about his sentence.

"He's a human being of flesh and blood, that should not be forgotten," he added.
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India-Pakistan
Pakistan tells India Mumbai evidence inadmissible
2012-08-02
Of course it was. The evidence was tainted by its association with evil Hindooo blood...
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad has told New Delhi that recently obtained evidence of the Mumbai attacks is not valid in court because Pakistanis were not allowed to cross-examine Indian officials, a Pakistani lawyer said yesterday. The Pakistani interior ministry wrote formally to the Indian government after a court rejected the evidence in July on the basis that the Pakistanis could not question Indian officials, prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar told AFP.

The letter is likely to aggravate New Delhi, which has branded Pakistan's attempts at prosecuting seven alleged conspirators a "facade" and has insisted it has already handed over enough evidence to convict the accused.

Pakistan charged the seven men over the 2008 Mumbai attacks in 2009, but insists it needs to gather more evidence in India before proceeding further. "Defense lawyers were not given an opportunity to cross examine Indian officials," said Zulfiqar, who headed the judicial commission's visit in March.

Pakistan wanted Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, who is the sole surviving gunman from the attacks and sentenced to death in India, to testify, but he was not included among the interviewees requested by the panel. The Pakistani commission recorded the statements of Indian investigators, doctors who performed autopsies and the magistrate who took Kasab's confession.
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India-Pakistan
Mumbai Bombing Suspect Arrested in India
2012-06-25
[Tolo News] Indian police have incarcerated
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
a key suspect accused of co-ordinating the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks in which 166 people were killed and more than 300 maimed, media reports said Monday.

The Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency quoted unnamed police sources as confirming the arrest of Abu Hamza, also known as Sayed Zabiuddin, an Indian-born member of the Pak Death Eater group Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains a blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
Hamza was allegedly one of the handlers based in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, Pakistain who issued instructions by telephone to the 10 gunnies as they stormed two luxury hotels, a Jewish centre, a restaurant and a train station in Mumbai.

Hamza, who has used a string of aliases, was incarcerated
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
at Delhi international airport on June 21 when he arrived from the Middle East and he has since been remanded in jug, PTI reported.

Pak national Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only gunman caught alive during the 60-hour assault on Mumbai in November 2008, was handed down a death sentence by the Bombay High Court last year.

PTI described Hamza as the 30-year-old "Hindi tutor" to the gunnies and said that he came from the western state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital.

Delhi police spokesmen told AFP they were unable to immediately comment on reports about the arrest.

India blames the Lashkar-e-Taiba Death Eater outfit, which is banned in Pakistain, for training, equipping and financing the Mumbai gunnies with support from "elements" in the Pakistain military.

Pakistain has indicted seven alleged perpetrators over the attacks but their trial, which began in 2009, has been beset by numerous delays triggering Indian accusations that the process is a sham.

The United States in April offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the conviction of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain...
, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba who lives openly in Pakistain and is accused of criminal masterminding the Mumbai attacks.
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India-Pakistan
Pakistan lawyers travel to India for Mumbai prosecution
2012-03-14
[Dawn] Pak Sherlocks and lawyers are travelling to India this week to gather evidence for the prosecution of seven suspects linked to the Mumbai attacks of 2008, when 166 people were killed.

The visit is the first of its kind, and comes after Pakistain indicted seven alleged conspirators in 2009 but has since said it needs to gather more evidence in India before proceeding further.

New Delhi says Pakistain's attempts at prosecution have been a "facade" and insists it has already handed over enough evidence to convict the accused.

The eight-strong commission of prosecutors, defence lawyers and a court official will travel to India Wednesday to take statements from witnesses and cross-examine them, senior public prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali told AFP.

Pakistain had wanted Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, who is the sole surviving gunman from the attacks and has been sentenced to death in India, to testify, but he has not been included among the interviewees requested by the panel.

"The commission will record the statements of Sherlocks, statements of the doctors who conducted autopsies and the statement of lady magistrate who recorded Ajmal Kasab's confessional statement in Mumbai," Ali said.
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India-Pakistan
Ajmal Kasab appeals against death penalty
2012-02-01
[Pak Daily Times] The lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Muhammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, began a Supreme Court appeal against his death sentence on Tuesday by claiming that he had not received a fair trial. A lawyer read out a statement in court from Kasab, one of the 10 gunnies who laid siege to Mumbai in the attacks that lasted nearly three days and killed 166 people. The 24-year-old has appealed for his death penalty to be overturned after he was convicted in 2010 for a series of crimes. "I have been wrongly held guilty because I was denied a fair trial. I was denied a counsel," Kasab, who was not in court on Tuesday, said in a statement read by his appeal lawyer Raju Ramachandran. "The prosecution has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the charges against me... I may be guilty of killing people and carrying out a terrorist act but I am not guilty of waging war against the state."
Of course you are. That's what jihad is: war to replace the native governance with imposed rule by an Islamic state.
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India-Pakistan
Pakistanis to visit India over Mumbai prosecution
2012-01-31
[Dawn] Pak Sherlocks and lawyers will visit India next month to gather more evidence for the prosecution of seven suspects linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, they said Monday.

Pakistain indicted seven alleged perpetrators over the attacks but says that its own commission needs to gather more evidence in India.

Delhi has called for "decisive" action from Pakistain against the perpetrators of the attacks and accuses its efforts so far of being a "facade", saying it has already handed over enough evidence to convict the accused men.

"If all goes well, the visit will take place between February 4 to February 10," senior public prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali told AFP.

Both sides, he said, agreed that the Pak commission could visit India between February 1 to February 10 to cross examine witnesses of the carnage in which 166 people were killed.

But Ali said there is a "possibility that the visit may be delayed" by the death of the lawyer representing alleged criminal mastermind, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi.

The dear departed's son, Khwaja Harris Ahmad, has applied to replace his father and the issue would be taken up by the court on February 4, Ali said.

The commission is made up of two senior prosecutors, a director from the Federal Investigation Agency and five lawyers representing the suspects.

"We can proceed to India before February 10 if our authorities address all the legal requirements," Ahmad told AFP.

Pakistain had wanted Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the Mumbai attacks, to testify.

But Ahmad said Kasab, who has appealed a death sentence in India, was not included on the list of witnesses whom the panel wish to cross-examine.
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India-Pakistan
Indian SC stays death sentence for Ajmal Qasab
2011-10-11
[Dawn] India's Supreme Court on Monday stayed the death sentence handed down to the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, pending an appeal hearing.
Did they stay the death sentences of all the people he killed?
"This case has to be heard on top priority," Supreme Court judge Aftab Alam told the court. "It is the demand of the judicial system that we have to hear this appeal."

Ajmal Amir Kasab, one of 10 gunnies who laid siege to Mumbai for nearly three days killing 166 people, was convicted in May 2010.

Kasab was found guilty of a string of crimes including waging war against India, murder, attempted murder and terrorist acts after a trial at a maximum security prison court in Mumbai.

The first appeal by the 23-year-old school drop-out from a poor farming area in Pakistain's Punjab state failed in February, when the state high court in Mumbai confirmed both his conviction and death sentence.

India reserves executions, which are carried out by hanging, for the "rarest of the rare" offences.

During the trial, the prosecution produced fingerprint, DNA, eyewitness and camera evidence showing Kasab opening fire and throwing grenades in the bloodiest episode of the November 26 attacks at Mumbai's main railway station.

A number of senior coppers, including the head of the Maharashtra state anti-terrorism squad, were killed as the gunnies decamped the scene of the carnage.

Three luxury hotels, a popular tourist restaurant and a Jewish centre were also targeted by the other gunnies.

India has accused Lashkar-e-Taiba of being behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which led to the suspension of fragile peace talks between the two neighbours and rivals.

If the Supreme Court upholds the verdict and sentence, Kasab can appeal for clemency to India's president Pratibha Patil as a last resort.

Executions are rare in India. Most death sentences are commuted to life imprisonment, and convicts can sit on death row for years awaiting a final decision on their pleas for clemency.

Afzal Guru, who was convicted of conspiring with the gunnies who attacked India's parliament in 2001, killing 10 people, has been on death row for nearly a decade.

His appeal against his death sentence was dismissed by the Supreme Court in 2006.

The last execution in India was in 2004 when a 41-year-old former security guard was hanged for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl.

In May this year, however, Patil unexpectedly rejected a mercy petition from a murderer in the northeastern state of Assam, leaving the state scrabbling to find a hangman.

Many of the small number of known hangmen nationwide have either died or retired in recent years.
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India-Pakistan
India says US Mumbai attacks acquittal 'no setback'
2011-06-11
[Dawn] India on Friday said it would press on with attempts to try a Pakistain-born Canadian citizen over the 2008 Mumbai attacks, despite a US jury finding him not guilty of involvement.

"I do not see it as a setback as our case is still under investigation," said the country's internal security secretary, U K Bansal, referring to Tahawwur Hussain Rana's acquittal in a Chicago court.

Rana was accused of allowing his immigration business to be used as cover for his friend David Coleman Headley to scout out potential targets in India's financial and entertainment capital before the attacks.

Headley testified against him but a jury on Thursday found there was insufficient evidence to convict.

Federal Sherlocks are preparing a case against both Rana and Headley, with a view to trying them in India, Bansal told news hounds in New Delhi.

"When the probe is over, we will produce the evidence in the court," he said, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.

A total of 166 people were killed and more than 300 maimed when 10 heavily-armed gunnies belonging to the banned, Pakistain-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) stormed Mumbai on November 26, 2008.

The sole surviving gunman, Pak national Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, was convicted of 'waging war' against India, murder, attempted murder and terrorism offences at a trial in Mumbai last year and sentenced to death.

Two Indian nationals who were on trial alongside him were acquitted of providing information to the attackers about targets, with their defence teams insisting that it was Headley who provided reconnaissance details.

But the trial judge ruled that implicating Headley was not admissible.

Rana still faces up to 30 years in jail, as the Chicago jury convicted him of helping the LeT to plan an attack on a Danish newspaper for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Headley was locked away in 2009 and has admitted 12 terror charges after prosecutors agreed not seek the death penalty or allow him to be extradited to either India, Pakistain or Denmark to face related charges.
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India-Pakistan
Death sentence confirmed for Mumbai attacker
2011-02-22
[Emirates 24/7] Two Indian judges on Monday confirmed the death sentence for the sole surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, in which 10 snuffies laid siege to the city, killing 166 people.
Sounds fair. He participated in imposing a death penalty on 166 people who hadn't done anything.
The Bombay High Court dismissed the claim by Pak national Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab that he was wrongfully convicted of taking part in the attacks, likened in India to those in the United States on September 11, 2001.
"No, really. They shoulda let me off on a technicality!"
"What technicality?"
"I dunno. You're the lawyers. Find one!"

The judges also threw out the state's appeal against a lower court's decision to acquit two Indian nationals accused of providing hand-drawn maps to the 10 gunnies.

Kasab, who did not attend the appeal for security reasons but was able to follow proceedings via video link, looked at the floor as the judgment was handed down, news channel NDTV said. "Harsh penalty of death is required in some cases, especially this one, and the court would be sending a wrong signal to society if any penalty less than death is given," judges Ranjana Desai and RV More said in their ruling. "Kasab has never shown any remorse after his arrest and we have observed that even on video conference he has not shown any signs of regret."

The 23-year-old was found guilty last May of a string of offences including waging war against India, murder, attempted murder and terrorist acts after a trial at a maximum security prison court in Mumbai. During the trial, the prosecution produced weighty fingerprint, DNA, eye-witness, CCTV and other evidence against him.

In the appeal, which began last October, Kasab's legal team asked for a retrial, arguing that his trial lawyer was not given sufficient time to wade through the 11,000-page charge sheet before the case began. They also claimed that prosecution evidence and witnesses were manipulated.

Under Indian law, death sentence cases have to be referred to the local state high court. The judges can uphold the sentence, reduce it, order a retrial or overturn the conviction.

Kasab has a further right of appeal to the Supreme Court in New Delhi and as a last resort to India's president for clemency.

One of his lawyers, Farhana Shah, told news hounds outside court: "We will inform Kasab of his legal rights. Kasab has to decide. If he wishes (to appeal) he can do so."

Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam flashed a victory sign on the court steps and described the judgment as a "historic verdict".

"Truth has prevailed," he said. "We appealed to the court that this was the rarest of rare cases and that he should be hanged, which the court approved."

India's home minister P. Chidambaram said the verdict was "a tribute to our legal system" and contrasted it with the trial of the alleged criminal masterminds in Pakistain, where he said there had been "no movement at all".

Prithviraj Chavan, the chief minister of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, also called on Pakistain to prosecute those responsible. India claims the banned, Pakistain-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba were behind the attacks, which led to the suspension of fragile peace talks between the two neighbours and rivals. New Delhi and Islamabad only this month agreed to resume dialogue.
Why? The victims aren't dead anymore? Hafiz Saeed is in jug waiting for the high jump?
Kasab was found to have been one of the two gunnies responsible for the bloodiest episode in the three-day attacks, when 52 people were killed at Mumbai's main railway station on November 26, 2008.

A number of senior Mumbai coppers, including the head of the Maharashtra state anti-terrorism squad, were killed as the gunnies decamped from the scene of carnage.

Three luxury hotels, a popular tourist restaurant and a Jewish centre were also attacked.

In the case of Kasab's co-accused, the high court judges agreed with the trial judge that there was "no corroboration of evidence to prove involvement of Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed".

The men's defence teams had said a Pak-American man, David Coleman Headley, conducted the reconnaissance. He was nabbed in 2009 and has admitted to scouting out targets.

Chief minister Chavan said the state would appeal against the high court's decision to uphold the not guilty verdicts.
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India-Pakistan
Kasab wants to challenge death sentence: report
2010-06-05
[Dawn] A Pakistani national sentenced to death by an Indian court for his part in the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks has lodged an application to appeal, the Times of India said on Friday.

The newspaper said prison authorities in India's financial capital had confirmed that Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab had approached the city's high court to challenge the sentence and apply for a state-funded lawyer.

Kasab was convicted last month of a string of offences, including waging war against India, mass murder, terrorist acts and conspiracy in connection with the November 26, 2008 attacks that killed 166 and injured more than 300.

The 22-year-old was the only one of the 10 extremist gunmen to be captured alive during the three-day assault, which targeted the city's main railway station, three luxury hotels, a popular restaurant and a Jewish centre.

No one was immediately available for comment at the high-security prison in central Mumbai where Kasab is being held when contacted by AFP.

Death sentences - reserved in India for only the "rarest of rare" cases - by law have to be confirmed by the local high court after reviewing the evidence.

Defendants have a right of appeal and can challenge the ruling all the way to the Supreme Court in the capital, New Delhi. A final plea for clemency can be made to the country's president.

Senior state government officials in Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital, have said they want the verdict and sentence ratified swiftly, amid public calls for Kasab to be executed as soon as possible.

But questions have been raised about how long Kasab will be kept on death row, as India has not carried out an execution since 2004 and only two since 1998, while dozens of final clemency appeals are still pending.

The country also has a shortage of hangmen.
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India-Pakistan
Kasab could be hanged this year, says India
2010-05-12
[Dawn] The lone surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks could be executed this year if he does not appeal his death sentence, a senior Indian government official said on Tuesday.

Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, 22, was found guilty of waging war on India, mass murder, conspiracy and terrorism offences last week over the assault, which left 166 people dead and more than 300 injured.

Home secretary G.K. Pillai said Kasab's fate depended on whether the Pakistani national challenged the sentence through the higher courts and filed an appeal for clemency to the country's president.

"If he doesn't file any appeal anywhere I think the chances of him getting hanged this year are quite high," he told the CNN-IBN news channel in an interview.

Calls for swift justice have mounted in India since Kasab's conviction given the prospects of a lengthy, possibly open-ended, appeal in the courts and an apparent stay on executions.

Although it retains the death penalty, India has not carried out an execution since 2004 and only two since 1998. Dozens of death row prisoners are still waiting for a decision on their clemency appeals.

They include the killers of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1991, and a Kashmiri separatist who attacked India's parliament in 2001.

The chief minister of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, said last week that he would push for the sentence to be carried out.

"We would want Kasab hanged at the earliest. We will ask the Supreme Court to fast-track the hearing of appeal," Ashok Chavan told the Hindustan Times newspaper.

Kasab was one of 10 militants who attacked the city's main railway station, three luxury hotels, a popular tourist restaurant and a Jewish centre on November 26, 2008, sparking a bloody, three-day siege.
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