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Mumbai attacker Kasab found guilty by Indian special court
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-05-03 21:04
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 Paramilitary troops patrol outside Arthur Road Jail, where the trial of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the suspected lone surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is being held, in Mumbai May 3, 2010. An Indian court on Monday will deliver the verdict in a trail of Kasab in a case that has strained ties between New Delhi and Islamabad. [Photo/Agencies] |
MUMBAI - The lone Mumbai attacks' surviving terrorist, Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Kasab, was found guilty on Monday by a special court of 86 charges, including waging war against India and murdering Indians and foreigners.
Meanwhile, two Indian nationals, Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed, accused of being members of Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and conducting reconnaissance in Mumbai before the attack, have been acquitted by the court.
The verdicts were pronounced nearly 17 months after kasab and nine other militants from Pakistan unleashed the massacre in the country's financial capital which claimed the lives of over 170 people.
The verdicts were read out by Judge M. L. Tahilyani of the special court, and the arguments on sentencing will begin on Tuesday.
The special court held the terrorist personally accountable for killing innocent people at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus train station and Cama Hospital, and also guilty of abetting murder at other scenes of the attack where his accomplices perpetrated killings.
Kasab was also held guilty of killing Maharashtra Anti- Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare and encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar.
The 653 witnesses interviewed by the court included many survivors of the terror attacks, eyewitnesses, family members of the victims, police officials, several foreign nationals, Indian security officials and officials from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
