NEW DELHI, Oct 23:
The Union Home Ministry today sent its recommendation to President Pranab Mukherjee rejecting the mercy petition of lone surviving perpetrator of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, official sources said.
“The Home Ministry has rejected Kasab’s petition and has forwarded its recommendation to the Rashtrapati Bhavan,” sources in the Ministry said.
Kasab had sent his mercy plea to the President after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence.
The nearly four-year legal battle launched by the 25-year-old had ended when the court upheld his conviction and death sentence in the 26/11 attacks case, saying he killed without ‘the slightest twinge of conscience.’
On August 29, the court had confirmed the death penalty awarded to the LeT operative by the trial court and later upheld by the Bombay High Court.
A bench of Justices Aftab Alam and CK Prasad had dismissed the 25-year-old’s plea challenging his conviction and death sentence in the 26/11 case.
Kasab and nine other Pakistani terrorists had landed in south Mumbai on November 26, 2008 by sea from Karachi and carried out massacres at various places, killing 166 people, including foreigners.
While Kasab was captured alive, the other terrorists were killed by security forces.
As of now there are 11 mercy pleas pending before the President. (UNI)
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