Posted on 04/17/2009 12:44:22 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Friday said Mumbai attack terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Kasab should not be provided any legal help and be hanged publicly near the Gateway of India.
"Why should Kasab be provided legal help? There is public demand that he should be hanged near Gateway of India and no time should be lost in trial," Thackeray said in an editorial in Sena mouthpiece 'Saamna'.
Alleging that Kasab was being treated as a "guest", the Sena chief said "Kasab's mother, who is coming to visit his son in prison, would now be given treatment as if she was a 'veermata' (martyr's mother)".
He further said that Kasab's lawyers have not gauged the public fury and were "playing" with the country's prestige by being in the limelight through the case.
Kasab should be tried in juvenile court: Kazmi
17 Apr 2009, 1407 hrs IST, TIMESOFINDIA.COM
MUMBAI: The trial in the Mumbai terror attacks case began on Friday with the prosecution opening its case against arrested gunman Mohammed Ajmal Abbas Kazmi arrives for Kasab’s trial at Arthur Road jail in Mumbai.
Special public prosecutor Ujwal Nikam opened the arguments against Kasab, Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed for their alleged involvement in the 26/11 attack case in which 183 people were killed.
The court had on Thursday appointed a lawyer for Kasab paving the way for the start of the trial in the case.
Kasab and two others have been booked in 12 cases related to the terror strikes.
On Thursday, Ujwal Nikam said that Kasab could now be tried for 166 counts of murder.
Nikam told the special sessions court that Kasab is responsible for the murder of 166 persons who lost their lives in the three-day terror carnage on November 26 and thus the charge under Section 302 of IPC is required to be framed against him 166 times.
“Even though Kasab was actually not present at the time of the firing incidents in hotels Taj and Trident, and Nariman House, he can be held liable for the murders as one of the co-conspirators,” Nikam said.
Kasab’s trial is long awaited since the Mumbai police filed a voluminous charge sheet of over 11,000 pages.
Kasab, who on Thursday got a new lawyer S G Abbas Kazmi, has asked for a Pakistani lawyer to defend him after the judge on Wednesday removed Anjali Waghmare as his counsel on a complaint of professional misconduct.
I vote hang the SOB.
Next order of business: rope or wire and should he be dropped or hoisted?
Rule of law does get in the way of true justice at times, but without it all are at risk.
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