Ajmal Kasab hanged: Indian media
Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab was hanged in Aruna Jail on Wednesday morning.
President Pranab Mukherjee had rejected the mercy petition filed by Ajmal Kasab after that he was hanged.
Mukherjee’s decision comes nearly two months after the Maharashtra home department rejected Kasab’s mercy petition that had been addressed to the President. The department’s recommendation was sent to Rashtrapati Bhavan through the state chief minister’s office and the union home ministry.
Kasab had filed his mercy petition in September after the Supreme Court confirmed his death sentence on August 29. The apex court had held that the 26/11 carnage was an attack on India and Indians which deserved the rarest of rare punishment.
A bench of Justices Aftab Alam and C K Prasad had said that 25-year-old Kasab, the only attacker who survived the three-day outrage in Mumbai, had shown no remorse or the possibility of rehabilitation after his arrest, and in fact considered himself as a “hero and a patriotic Pakistani at war”. He had no feeling of pity and killed without the slightest twinge of conscience and the gallows remained the “only” punishment for him, the court had said.
