The Supreme Court of India upheld 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab's death sentence on Wednesday. Here's the full text of the judgment. ...
04:09 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: In a quaint footnote, the Supreme Court of India judgment upholding terrorist Ajmal Kasab's death sentence, reflected on the emotional connection Pakistan's creator Muhammad Ali Jinnah had with the grand Taj Mahal Hotel where his second wife Rattanbai Petit (Ruttie) agreed to marry him. "It is reported that it was at the Taj Mahal Hotel ballroom that, on February 20, 1918, at her eighteenth birthday party, Ruttie had...
03:50 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Mumbai: Hours after the Supreme Court upheld Ajmal Kasabs death sentence on Wednesday, one man sitting in his office at Crawford Market was smiling jubilantly, as he fielded incessant phone calls. This is a moment of vindication for Ramesh Mahale, investigating officer for the 26/11 terror attack. It was under this cop that a team of investigators worked against time to file a mountainous 11,700-page chargesheet against Kasab, completing the...
12:35 PM, Aug 30, 2012
The ICC Test XI includes four players from South Africa but none from India. ...
12:20 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that he respects the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the death sentence of 26/11 Mumbai attacks convict Ajmal Kasab. Reacting to the court verdict, Rehman Malik said, "This is the decision by a court and therefore, I am nobody to say why they have done it. The court must have had some reason to do it. Hence, I think, whether it is...
12:12 PM, Aug 30, 2012
I was at a South Delhi cafe this evening where I happened to over hear a rather animated conversation between a group of youngsters glued ...
12:11 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Mumbai: Even as Ajmal Kasab got a death sentence in the 26/11 attacks case, the Mumbai police are well underway in their investigations against one of his alleged handlers Abu Jundal. He was confronted with Kasab recently for a joint interrogation. "This is not a token judgement. This is a milestone and we are in the process of prosecuting one of the masterminds Abu Jundal. We have collected strong evidence...
09:01 AM, Aug 30, 2012
Tehran: The Ajmal Kasab judgement in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks is likely to have an impact on the meeting between Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as they meet on the sidelines of the NAM summit in Tehran. India will push for a speedy trial of the 26/11 masterminds in Pakistan. Enough water has flown down the Indus since Manmohan Singh and Asif Zardari last...
08:43 AM, Aug 30, 2012
While human rights activists say Kasab has a right to mercy, an overwhelming majority says he should be hanged at the earliest to send a strong message to terrorists. ...
08:39 AM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: After the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab, the big question remains whether his execution will be delayed just like that of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. Afzal Guru's death sentence was upheld by the apex court for carrying out the Parliament attack in 2001, but he continues to live as his mercy plea lies pending with the President. Guru applied for mercy...
08:19 AM, Aug 30, 2012
Mumbai: Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru, both convicted for terror attacks and awarded death penalty, should be hanged publicly, Shiv Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray said on Wednesday. The two should be hanged publicly, he said and sought to know whether the Government has courage to carrying out the death sentence of the duo, confirmed by the Supreme Court. "Does the Government have the guts to carry out the sentence?"...
12:13 AM, Aug 30, 2012
Justice was delivered in the 26/11 terror attack case with the Supreme Court on Wednesday upholding the death sentence for Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only surviving Pakistani terrorist who attacked Mumbai in 2008. ...
12:01 AM, Aug 30, 2012
Supreme Court upholds death for 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab. Former Gujarat minister and 31 others convicted in Naroda Patiya massacre case. ...
11:58 PM, Aug 29, 2012
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence for 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab. ...
11:54 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: Justice has finally been delivered in the 26/11 terror attack case with the Supreme Court upholding the death sentence for Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only surviving Pakistani terrorist who attacked Mumbai in 2008. It has taken around four years for the verdict in the case, and now there are voices from all over the country, particularly from the victims and families of martyrs, asking for immediate execution of...
11:40 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Tehran: Pakistan on Wednesday blamed India for the inordinate delay in bringing to book the perpetrators of Mumbai terror attack who are in that country. Pakistan Foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar, who is in Tehran to attend the 16th NAM Summit, said that there were certain "requirements" to move forward in the trial as was articulated by its High Commissioner in India Salman Bashir, who had stressed on the need...
10:29 PM, Aug 29, 2012
Tehran: With the Supreme Court on Wednesday upholding the death sentence on Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, India's case for action against others involved in the Mumbai terror attacks got strengthened ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari in Tehran on Thursday. The two leaders will confabulate on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement Summit shortly after Zardari flies across from Islamabad. The scheduling problems for...
09:35 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab is "quite clever and shrewd" and killed without "the slightest twinge of conscience" said the Supreme Court on Wednesday, dismissing his plea for leniency on purported ground that he was brain washed by Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and acted like a robot. "We are unable to accept the submission that the appellant was a mere tool in the hands of the Lashkar-e-Toiba. He joined the Lashkar-e-Toiba...
09:16 PM, Aug 29, 2012
The Supreme Court has found Ajmal Kasab guilty of conspiracy, murder and waging war against India. ...
08:05 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: Almost four year after Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab along with his nine associates, all of whom belonged to ISI-supported terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), wreaked havoc in Mumbai, the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty awarded to him by a special Mumbai court and confirmed by the Bombay High Court. While dismissing Kasab's petition, which was moved through senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, the two-judge bench of Justice Aftab...
05:46 PM, Aug 29, 2012
