Sunday, May 2, 2010

Mumbai attacks trial verdict due for Ajmal Amir Qasab

Mumbai attacks

MUMBAI: Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, lone survivor Mumbai attacks against the death punishment if convict of participation in the 2008 Mumbai attacks will learn his fate as the court reconvenes for the right to deliver its ruling.

Ajmal Kasab, 22, faces a number of charges, counting the "war against India, and murder in connection with the bloody, three-day siege that left 166 people dead and more than 300 others injured.

Judge M.L. Tahaliyani has spent more than a month bearing in mind the proof.

Before 31 years in March, he told the courtyard: "May 3, will be Judgement Day." Ujjwal Nikam Attorney AFP last week that he was "100 percent" wait for a result on Monday.

The end of the trial is an important step towards the treatment of India's financial capital, and entertainment.

Prosecutors believe that it has "irresistible" evidence Kasab's participation in the attacks, including the DNA and fingerprint security camera footage and photos of him transport an AK-47 assault rifle.

Kasab first denied the accusations, and then found guilty before returning to its original position and claims he was set up by the police.

Two Indian nationals are also put to the test. Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed are both charged with providing logistical support to the carrying weapons men by giving them a hand written map of the city.

Judge Tahaliyani refuse to allow an application for an American-Pakistani national, David Coleman Headley, who admitted investigation out targets for attacks, as witnesses.

Thirty-five people named in court papers as accomplices, including Let founder Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, important operational Zarar Shah and Hafiz Saeed.

Lahkvhi and Shah are among seven suspect currently on trial in Rawalpindi.

Kasab, who was arrested in a stolen car after a shoot-out in a police road block was the only suspected gunman captured alive. The other was killed by Indian security forces.

They were clandestinely buried earlier this year after a long series on how to arrange of bodies.

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