26/11 Paki Bird Ajmal Kasab is no more. Peace be upon Him.

A STRONG SIGNAL OF INDIA TO GLOBAL TERRORISM.

26/11 Paki Bird Ajmal Kasab hanged to death at Pune’s Yerawada Jail today…

Express news service | Mumbai, |Wed Nov 21 2012 | 08:28 hrs :: A few hours before The Indian Express reported that his mercy petition was rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee, Ajmal Kasab, the Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist, was hanged at Pune’s Yerwada Jail where he was shifted earlier from Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail.

Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist caught alive during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, was hanged to death at 7.30 on Monday morning.

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Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shine told media that Ajmal Kasab’s mercy plea was rejected by the President on November 5.

Earlier, Ajmal Kasab’s mercy plea was rejected by the government which had then sent its recommendation to the President.

Home Ministry had said that Kasab’s mercy petition was dismissed as he was involved in a grave crime of waging war against India that led to killing 166 people, including foreigners.

The 25-year-old Pakistani and nine other fellow Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists had landed in Mumbai on November 26, 2008 by sea from Karachi and had gone on a shooting spree at various places, carrying out the country’s worst terror attack. While Kasab was captured alive, the other terrorists were killed by security forces.

Kasab’s mercy petition was sent to the Home Ministry by the Maharashtra government in September after rejecting the plea.

After nearly a four-year-long legal battle, on August 29, the Supreme Court had confirmed the death penalty awarded to the LeT operative by the trial court and later upheld by the Bombay High Court. Upholding Kasab’s conviction, the apex court had said he killed without “the slightest twinge of conscience”.