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Ajmal Kasab appeals against death penalty
[Pak Daily Times]  The lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Muhammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, began a Supreme Court appeal against his death sentence on Tuesday by claiming that he had not received a fair trial. A lawyer read out a statement in court from Kasab, one of the 10 gunnies who laid siege to Mumbai in the attacks that lasted nearly three days and killed 166 people. The 24-year-old has appealed for his death penalty to be overturned after he was convicted in 2010 for a series of crimes. "I have been wrongly held guilty because I was denied a fair trial. I was denied a counsel," Kasab, who was not in court on Tuesday, said in a statement read by his appeal lawyer Raju Ramachandran. "The prosecution has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the charges against me... I may be guilty of killing people and carrying out a terrorist act but I am not guilty of waging war against the state."
Posted by: Fred 2012-02-01 |
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