26/11 Judgement Awaited Today

[Sumku]

Today is the Judgement day for Trials on Ajmal Kasab.

Judgement would be out in next couple of Hours and lets hope that the ass gets hanged.

[Deltacamelately]

I would like to see him hanging years after years, trials aftere trials, waiting for the verdict.

[pChan]

The Japanese have a very curious practise when it comes to the execution of prisoners. After the death sentence, the dates of execution are not announced. The prisoner lives everyday, for the rest of his life, not knowing if he will see a tomorrow.

[S2]

pChan Reply

"After the death sentence, the dates of execution are not announced."

The first time I read about this was, I believe, the SAS. They've a test in full ruck down in Salisbury or some similar boondock where you go...until they say stop. You don't know when or how far.

Some U.S. military SOF forces have picked up on the concept and its, IMV, sound. So too in this case if sentencing includes execution. The Japanese have it correct and it's a variation of a "death by a thousand cuts".

[Sumku]

Kasab held guilty of waging war against India

Kasab held guilty of waging war against India

The special court at Arthur Road jail has held Ajmal Kasab [ Images ], lone surviving terrorist in the 26/11 attacks case, guilty of waging war against India [ Images ] and killing 170 people on 26/11.

The court declared Kasab as an operative of the terror outfit Lahkar-e-Tayiba and found him guilty of waging war against India.

The court aquitted Fahim Ansari and Sabhauddin Ahmed of all charges for lack of evidence.

Holding Kasab guilty, Judge M Tahaliyani announced in court on Monday that the sentence will be announced later.

The trial, the fastest in a terror case in India, had commenced on May 8, 2009.

Judge Tahaliyani recorded 3,192 pages of evidence after examining 658 witnesses on 271 working days. The witnesses included many survivors of the terror attacks, eyewitnesses, family members of victims, police officials, several foreign nationals, Indian security officials.

Thirty witnesses in the court identified Kasab, who has been accused of 86 charges, as the man who had opened fire at them.

The prosecution led by Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, had submitted 1,015 articles seized during investigations. Nikam had also filed 1,691 documents to support the case.

For the first time in the Indian history, America's Federal Bureau of Investigation officials deposed before the court and gave technical evidence.

The FBI informed the court about the technical data it gathered -- how Kasab and others came from Pakistan navigating their way with the help of the Global Positioning System and that they made calls from their mobile phones through Voice Over Internet Protocol to stay in touch with their handlers across the border.

[Sumku]

Hang Kasab on Nov 26, says 11-yr-old victim maimed at CST

Hang Kasab on Nov 26, says 11-yr-old victim maimed at CST

MUMBAI: Ajmal Kasab and his cohorts may have shaken almost the entire city during those dark days at the end of November in 2008, but a young girl held her nerve and nailed him in court six months later when she identified him as one of the CST attackers. "Kasab should be hanged. When I identified him and narrated the incident to the court, Kasab didn't dare look at me. I do not fear anything and will stand with the prosecution till Kasab is punished," said the girl, who is now 11 years old.

"You can click my photo and show my face in the paper. I don't fear anyone," she said on Saturday. The testimony of the girl, who fell unconscious after being hit by a bullet in her leg, was also among those that were a turning point for Kasab in the trial. Earlier, the Pakistani often appeared cocky and confident in court, but his demeanour changed as survivor after survivor identified him as one of the gunmen. On June 10, 2009, the young girl appeared in crutches in court and identified him from among the three accused. As soon as she pointed him out, Kasab, who was standing for the identification, slumped back into his seat.

On her way to recovery today, the girl remains defiant about getting justice. "How can I forget that night, when I saw people killed in front of me? It was scary and horrible...Whenever I see Kasab on TV, I get very angry," she said.

"I don't want other children to face what I had to go through. I do not want people to become a victim of terror. I will join an English-medium school, study hard and get into the police force. I want to end terrorism and hatred. I want peace everywhere," she said. Before 26/11, she loved to play hide and seek and cricket. "When I see others playing, I also feel like playing. The sad part is that I am unable to join them."

Her father, too, who was fleeing with the girl at CST when she was shot in the leg and fell bleeding and unconscious, said the family had no fear of being quoted in the papers. However, in the interest of the family's security, the authorities have asked that no hint of their location be given out.

It was a double whammy for the girl's father as his son, who was 14 then, became ill while looking after his sister at St George Hospital. The boy would dress the girl's wounds and apply medicines to them. However, his illness caused his neck to swell and he had to undergo major surgery. Both sister and brother are still unable to live a normal life. Meanwhile, the father was hindered in his efforts to concentrate on his small business as he had to look after his children. Their mother had died in 2006.

On November 26, 2008, when the girl was still nine, she, her father and brother were on their way to Pune to meet her eldest brother, who runs a small shop there. The father and girl were sitting in the hall opposite a toilet which the brother had gone to. It was the same toilet in which the gunmen had pulled out their AK-47s. The girl and her father didn't see the gunmen walk a certain distance into the hall before they began firing.

The father said, "I saw something land on the ground and some people were trying to throw their luggage onto it. At the same time, two men, who were standing at a distance, started firing indiscriminately. It took us some time to realise that it was a major attack as we began to see people collapsing in pools of blood."

The father and daughter tried to run from the attackers. The girl was ahead while the father was running behind when a bullet passed between his legs and struck her. She collapsed and the father fell on her to protect her. The father said, "Like the others, I too was screaming for help, but after a movement I noticed that the terrorists were coming towards us. We remained collapsed, unmoving, the blood of my daughter, the other injured people and those who were dead all around. The terrorists passed us, assuming that we were dead."

After the terrorists went towards the local train platforms, the father carried his daughter to the nearby St George Hospital. The boy, who stayed in the toilet till the terrorists left, roamed the station for two hours searching for his father and sister among the injured and dead. When someone told him that the dead and injured were being taken to a nearby hospital, he rushed there to find them alive.

The father said, "I wish that the court should hang Kasab. He should be hanged on November 26, so we can celebrate the anniversary every year happily."

I am sure that now that he has been proved Guilty, death sentence would follow soon.

[hammer]

Once they hang him, they should cover his dead body with Pig fat and cremate him. And he should be told that this is what we are gonna do to his body, before he is hung. I hope someone feed him pork chops for his last meal. B@st@rd needs to suffer before he dies.

[Mohan]

Is he eligible for mercy petition? If so then are they going to sit on the case for eternity or will they take decision on the existing ones so to take action on this one.

[Chogy]

The Japanese have a very curious practise when it comes to the execution of prisoners. After the death sentence, the dates of execution are not announced. The prisoner lives everyday, for the rest of his life, not knowing if he will see a tomorrow.

I remember reading a detailed account of the methodology, and it was chilling, to say the least.

It goes something like this, and any inaccuracies are from my failing memory...

Life on a Japanese death row is very regimented, but the executions, when they do take place, are done near sunrise BEFORE the bulk of the inmates begin their "normal" day. The prisoners can hear the footsteps of the guards coming for a particular prisoner when it is his execution day. Can you imagine the horror of waking up, hearing the footsteps, and wondering if they will stop at YOUR cell?

Apparently, if they don't come for you, you are safe for another 24 hours. I'm surprised more of them don't simply drop dead from the stress.

[hammer]

Kasab village watches 26/11 judgement on TV

Residents of Faridkot, home to the alleged surviving gunman of the Mumbai massacre, deny any connection with their wayward son but believe India should release him in the interests of peace.

The remote town in the Pakistani farming belt of Punjab province has earned notoriety as the home of Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, accused of taking part in the 72-hour bloodbath in November 2008 that killed 166 people in Mumbai.

On Monday, as the 22-year-old Pakistani prepared to learn his fate in court, some people in Faridkot, about 26 kilometres from the Indian border, sat in groups watching TV waiting to hear the verdict, said an AFP reporter.

The day before the sentencing, a hawker distributed a weekly newspaper published by Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which Indian and US officials believe is a front for the Lashkar-e-Toiba militant group blamed for the Mumbai attacks.

With Faridkot's wheat harvest in full swing, workers loading grain into vehicles to a din of folk music said they were sympathetic to Kasab's "good intentions" against an "enemy" country.

Around 10,000 people live in the town. Most of the population comprises of labourers and small farmers. Few are literate.

"Are they talking about our Ajmal?" 45-year-old Noor Ahmed asked, interrupting a discussion on how residents feel about the Indian sentencing.

"No. No. We don't know him," he said, sitting on a dirty cot in a small brick and clay room on the bank of Faridkot's canal.

"But we have sympathies for him being Muslim."

Residents said they would denounce any sentence India hands down to Kasab.

"Look, don't blame him. There is nothing wrong if he did it with good intentions against an infidel country like India," said Amjad Ali, a 60-year-old farmer with white hair.
"India should forgive him and set him free to improve relations with Pakistan," he added. :))

Bakhat Yar, 42, a farmer wearing a traditional grey shalwar khamis, said Kasab's father left the village years ago.

"We have never seen this boy in the village. Only his grandfather's haveli (house) is here," he said. "They have left this place, I guess."

Yar first said that Kasab should be found guilty and sentenced, then later retracted his remarks: "India should not give him the death sentence. After all, he is Muslim and if he did it against India, look what our neighbour India is doing."

Kasab village watches 26/11 judgement on TV

Can we ever have peace with these creatures?

[bigross86]

I remember reading a detailed account of the methodology, and it was chilling, to say the least.

It goes something like this, and any inaccuracies are from my failing memory...

Life on a Japanese death row is very regimented, but the executions, when they do take place, are done near sunrise BEFORE the bulk of the inmates begin their "normal" day. The prisoners can hear the footsteps of the guards coming for a particular prisoner when it is his execution day. Can you imagine the horror of waking up, hearing the footsteps, and wondering if they will stop at YOUR cell?

Apparently, if they don't come for you, you are safe for another 24 hours. I'm surprised more of them don't simply drop dead from the stress.

It sounds similar to the Unexpected hanging paradox:

A judge tells a condemned prisoner that he will be hanged at noon on one weekday in the following week but that the execution will be a surprise to the prisoner. He will not know the day of the hanging until the executioner knocks on his cell door at noon that day. Having reflected on his sentence, the prisoner draws the conclusion that he will escape from the hanging. His reasoning is in several parts. He begins by concluding that the "surprise hanging" can't be on a Friday, as if he hasn't been hanged by Thursday, there is only one day left - and so it won't be a surprise if he's hanged on a Friday. Since the judge's sentence stipulated that the hanging would be a surprise to him, he concludes it cannot occur on Friday. He then reasons that the surprise hanging cannot be on Thursday either, because Friday has already been eliminated and if he hasn't been hanged by Wednesday night, the hanging must occur on Thursday, making a Thursday hanging not a surprise either. By similar reasoning he concludes that the hanging can also not occur on Wednesday, Tuesday or Monday. Joyfully he retires to his cell confident that the hanging will not occur at all. The next week, the executioner knocks on the prisoner's door at noon on Wednesday — which, despite all the above, will still be an utter surprise to him. Everything the judge said has come true.

[Tronic]

Kasab village watches 26/11 judgement on TV

Can we ever have peace with these creatures?

Parrots.

It sounds similar to the Unexpected hanging paradox:

A judge tells a condemned prisoner that he will be hanged at noon on one weekday in the following week but that the execution will be a surprise to the prisoner. He will not know the day of the hanging until the executioner knocks on his cell door at noon that day. Having reflected on his sentence, the prisoner draws the conclusion that he will escape from the hanging. His reasoning is in several parts. He begins by concluding that the "surprise hanging" can't be on a Friday, as if he hasn't been hanged by Thursday, there is only one day left - and so it won't be a surprise if he's hanged on a Friday. Since the judge's sentence stipulated that the hanging would be a surprise to him, he concludes it cannot occur on Friday. He then reasons that the surprise hanging cannot be on Thursday either, because Friday has already been eliminated and if he hasn't been hanged by Wednesday night, the hanging must occur on Thursday, making a Thursday hanging not a surprise either. By similar reasoning he concludes that the hanging can also not occur on Wednesday, Tuesday or Monday. Joyfully he retires to his cell confident that the hanging will not occur at all. The next week, the executioner knocks on the prisoner's door at noon on Wednesday — which, despite all the above, will still be an utter surprise to him. Everything the judge said has come true.

:)) :))

[Cactus]

Mumbai Gunman Is Sentenced to Death - NYTimes.com

MUMBAI, India — The lone surviving gunman from a 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai that killed more than 160 people was sentenced on Thursday to death by hanging.

[Tronic]

Kasab's execution may take years

The orders of a lower court are generally challenged in a higher court by either of the parties but in cases of death sentences, the orders are mandated to be confirmed by the High Court.

Once before the Bombay High Court, all the evidence will again be examined by it. The High Court will then decide whether to uphold the decision or to convert it to a less harsher punishment.

Even if the High Court upholds the death sentence given by the special court, Kasab can challenge it in the Supreme Court. The apex court will again look at all the aspects of previous judgements, evidence, developments and arguments and give its final verdict.

If the Supreme Court upholds the death penalty, Kasab can file a mercy petition before the President under Article 72 of the Constitution.

At present, 29 such cases are pending before the President waiting a decision on their clemency petition.


Read more at: Kasab's execution may take years

As expected. He now knows hes gotta go, just not when he's going to go. If the case makes it to the President, than no matter who sits on the President's seat, this case will be ignored and left pending by successful governments. So make that 30 such cases now.

[Hindu_Infidel]

कया छ बि स ग्या र ह? सिदा मुंबई अटेक बोल ना!
अपना ऐपिसोड को फि रं गी यो का ऐपिसोड से कायको जोडनेका?

I don't think kasab will hang