Kasab Plea

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  President Pranab Mukherjee Rejects 2 More Mercy Pleas, Total Count Stands At 30

  President Pranab Mukherjee rejected two mercy petitions in the last week of May. The dismissal of the appeals comes just weeks before his term ends and takes the total number of mercy petitions rejected by him to 30. The cases involved the rape and murder of a four-year-old girl by three men in Indore in 2012, and a 22-year-old woman in Pune in 200...

• Ajmal Amir Kasab pleaded for 'daya' or mercy in a four-line plea

  Ajmal Kasab, the face of the dastardly 26/11 terror strike on Mumbai who was hanged, had begged for "daya" (mercy) from the President through his four-line clemency plea written in elementary Urdu.

• After Kasab's execution, Pak accepts plea for more security for Indian diplomats

  India and Pakistan are locked in a war of words over whether the communication sent to Islamabad informing it of 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab's hanging had been received and acknowledged. India maintains that it got no acknowledgement of the letter, while Pakistan says it has been sent.

• How other Indian attackers have escaped the hangman

  Mohammed Kasab was hanged weeks after his mercy plea was denied. But others involved in some of India's most infamous attacks have languished on death row for years because governments are wary of triggering unrest.

• Ajmal Kasab hanged at Pune's Yerwada Jail this morning

  Ajmal Kasab, the only terrorist caught alive during the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai in 2008, was hanged at the Yerwada Jail in Pune at 7.30 am today. His mercy plea had been rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee on November 5.

• Reject Ajmal Kasab's mercy plea within 24 hours, says Shiv Sena

  President Pranab Mukherjee should "summarily dismiss" Mumbai terror attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab's mercy petition, Shiv Sena said today.

• Supreme Court upholds Ajmal Kasab's death sentence, says he 'waged war against India'

  The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab. The court rejected a plea by Kasab, the only terrorist caught alive during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, to commute the death sentence handed to him by the Bombay High Court, to life imprisonment.

• Supreme Court upholds Kasab's death sentence: Who said what

  The Supreme Court has rejected 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab's plea asking the court to commute the death sentence handed to him by the Bombay High Court to life imprisonment. The court observed today that it was "left with no option but to uphold the sentence" because the primary offence that Kasab was charged with was waging war against India.

• Ajmal Kasab's death sentence upheld by Supreme Court

  Kasab will get death sentence: The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab. The top court rejected a plea by Kasab, the only terrorist caught alive during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, to commute the death sentence handed to him by the Bombay High Court, to life imprisonment.

• Death sentence for Ajmal Kasab? Supreme Court to decide today

  The Supreme Court is scheduled to deliver its verdict on Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab's plea against his death sentence today. Kasab, the only terrorist caught alive during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, had pleaded the Supreme Court to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment on February 14.