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SC to decide Mumbai attacker Kasab's fate
Wednesday
Tuesday August 28, 2012 11:46:15 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court is likely to pronounce verdict on a petition filed
by the 2008 Mumbai terror attack convict and Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab challenging the Bombay High Court judgment upholding
his death sentence on Wednesday.
The high court 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 bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice C.K. Prasad
reserved the verdict on the conclusion of arguments that spread
over nearly three months, starting Jan 31.
In the Mumbai terror attack, Kasab was one of 10 Pakistanis who
illegally sailed into India and launched the Nov 26-29 mayhem that
killed 166 people, including many foreigners.
The court will also pronounce its verdict on Maharashtra
government's appeal challenging the acquittal of Fahim Harshad
Mohammad Yusuf Ansari and Sabauddin Shaikh. They were accused of
providing topographical details to the Mumbai terror attack
accused.
Kasab contended that he was denied a fair trial as he was not
provided legal assistance as mandated under in terms of Article 22
(1) of the Indian constitution.
Senior counsel and amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran, who appeared
for Kasab, told the court that "denial of right to counsel at the
earliest stage and denial of right to protection against
self-incrimination" together vitiated a fair trial.
Defending Kasab, Ramachandran told the court that "if he had the
lawyers' assistance right from the beginning, one wonders if a
confessional statement would have been made".
Senior counsel Gopal Subramanium, who appeared for the Maharashtra
government, said that "legal aid was provided to him right from
the word go".
The 26/11 attack was an "attempt to wage war against the country
and its people and not just the government", he said.
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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