Timeline: Kasab's trial in Bombay High Court

Mumbai: Ajmal Kasab, sporting a stubble and wearing a white kurta-pyjama, watched via video- conference as the Bombay High Court confirmed his death sentence for waging war against India with the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai in 2008.

Following is the chronology of 26/11 case of Ajmal Kasab in the Bombay High Court:

• October 18, 2010: Case begins in High Court, Kasab appears on screen through video conference
• October 19: Kasab throws tantrums, says he wants to attend the court in person, spits at camera and says "send me to America"; judges warn him to behave properly
• October 21: Kasab reiterates before his lawyers that he wants to come to court personally
• October 25: High Court judges views CCTV footage purportedly showing Kasab and slain terrorist Abu Ismael in terror acts
• October 27: Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam justifies death sentence awarded to Kasab by trial court
• October 29: Kasab confused trial court by taking frequent U-turns argues Nikam
• November 19: Nikam tells court that 26/11 attackers wanted separate state for Muslims
• November 22: Kasab is liar and plotter, argues Nikam
• November 23: High Court Judges once again watch CCTV footages of Kasab and Ismael
• November 24: Nikam tells High Court that trial court had erred in partially accepting Kasab's confession
• November 25: Kasab's lawyer Amin Solkar begins argument, says trial was unfair. He demands retrial in 26/11 case
• November 30: Solkar argues that charge of "waging war against nation" was not made out against Kasab
• December 2: Kasab did not come from Pakistan by dinghy, his lawyer says and adds that the dinghy cannot accommodate 10 persons.
• December 3: Police cooked up story to falsely implicate Kasab, his lawyer argues
• December 5: Prosecution suppressed evidence to nail Kasab; only some CCTV footages have been shown to the court and others suppressed, his lawyer Solkar argues.
• December 6: Solkar tells High Court that photographs showing Kasab in terror acts are morphed
• December 7: Kasab denies killing police officer Hemant Karkare and two other top cops. His lawyer argues bullets in their bodies did not match with Kasab's rifle
• December 8: Solkar says police staged false encounter at Girgaum Chowpatty on November 26, 2008, to falsely implicate Kasab. He denies Kasab's presence at the spot and says his arrest was stage-managed
• December 9: Kasab's lawyer argues that evidence against him is weak and says he did not kill Karkare
• December 10: Kasab's lawyers inspect dinghy kept in the trial court. According to them, the dinghy cannot accommodate 10 persons and claim that the prosecution's case is false
• December 13: Kasab raises juvenile plea and urges the court to appoint a panel of medical experts to study his mental condition
• December 14: Court rejects Kasab's juvenile plea and also his demand for medical test to know his mental state
• December 21: Court hears appeal of State against acquittal of Faheem Ansari in 26/11 case. Faheem produced in High Court by Uttar Pradesh police as he was in their custody in another case.
• December 22: Prosecutor Nikam argues that trial court had erred in acquitting Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed
• January 5, 2011: Nikam tells Court that Sabauddin and Faheem are co-conspirators in 26/11 terror attack case
• January 6: Faheem's lawyer R B Mokashi refutes prosecution's conspiracy charge and says evidence is weak. The map of targets - alleged to have been drawn by Faheem and found in slain terrorist Abu Ismael's  pocket - is planted, he says.
• January 7: Nikam argues that Faheem cheated Pakistani government by obtaining passport in fictitious name on the strength of bogus documents.
• January 10: Sabauddin is a key conspirator and it was he who had handed over maps drawn by Faheem to LeT which in turn gave them to terrorists to execute attacks, says Nikam
• January 11: Nikam denies defence argument that the Map drawn by Faheem were planted on slain terrorist Abu Ismael
• January 13: Sabauddin's lawyer Ejaz Naqvi denies Sabauddin's role in the 26/11 attacks. Evidence against Sabauddin is weak and without any corroboration, he says
• January 17: Arguments conclude, court reserves order till February 7
• February 7: Court says it would pronounce verdict on February 21 because of huge paper work and compilation
• February 21: Court confirms death sentence to Kasab and acquittal of Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin.