The lone surviving triggerman of the two008 Mumbai attack could be executed this than-ever/”>year if he does not prayer his death sentence, a senior Indian government functionary said on Tuesday
Muhammad Ajmal emeer Kasab, 22, was found guilty of waging war on Republic of Bharat, mass murder, conspiracy and terrorism offensive last week over the assault, which left 166 people dead and more than three00 injured.
Home secretary G.K. Pillai said Kasab’s destiny depended on whether the Pakistani national challenged the sentence through the higher judicature and data filed an prayer for clemency to the state president
“If he doesn’t file any prayer anywhere I think the opportunity of him acquiring hanged this year are quite high,” he told the CNN-IBN word transmission channel in an interview
phone call for Gustavus Franklin Swift justice have mounted in Republic of India since Kasab’s article of faith given the chance of a lengthy, possibly open-ended, prayer in the judicature and an apparent stay on death penaltys.
Although it retains the death penalty, India has not carried outan execution since 2004 and only 2 since 1998. heaps of death row prisoner are still waiting for a decision on their clemency prayers.
They include the slayer of former prime parson Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1991, and a Kashmiri separatist who attacked Bharat parliament in 2001.
The chief minister of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, said last week that he would pushing 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 prayer,” Ashok Chavan told the Hindustan Times paper
Kasab was 1 of 10 Islamist militant who attacked the urban center main railway line station, 3 luxury hotels, a popular tourist eating house and a Jewish centreon Nov 26, 2008, sparking a bloody, 3-day besieging
Source: Agence France-Presse, May 11, 2010