Mumbai:
Lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai terror attack case Mohammed Ajmal Amir Qasab is under heavy surveillance, round the clock, at the high security Arthur Road central prison here.
"He (Qasab) has been kept in isolation in a separate cell heavily guarded by policemen. Except for a copy of the 11,000-page chargesheet, Qasab has nothing else in his cell," police sources told PTI.
Qasab has asked for newspapers to read but the court is yet to pass an order on his plea. The trial is slated to begin in a couple of days.
A strong posse of guards has been deployed around his cell and they come on duty in shifts. Qasab has been segregated from other prisoners, they said.
The jail is divided into two sections, one comprising 11 barracks, where undertrials owing allegiance to different underworld gangs are lodged, while the other houses the trial court as well as an exclusive bomb proof cell for Qasab.
In between Qasab's cell and the court, the authorities have built a bombproof tunnel that connects the two and would give direct entry to the gunman into the court, the sources said.
"He (Qasab) has been kept in isolation in a separate cell heavily guarded by policemen. Except for a copy of the 11,000-page chargesheet, Qasab has nothing else in his cell," police sources told PTI.
Qasab has asked for newspapers to read but the court is yet to pass an order on his plea. The trial is slated to begin in a couple of days.
A strong posse of guards has been deployed around his cell and they come on duty in shifts. Qasab has been segregated from other prisoners, they said.
The jail is divided into two sections, one comprising 11 barracks, where undertrials owing allegiance to different underworld gangs are lodged, while the other houses the trial court as well as an exclusive bomb proof cell for Qasab.
In between Qasab's cell and the court, the authorities have built a bombproof tunnel that connects the two and would give direct entry to the gunman into the court, the sources said.
