Bangalore:
Hailing the death penalty awarded to Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, K Unnikrishnan, father of National Security Guard (NSG) commando Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who was killed in the operation during the Mumbai terror attacks, said he did not want Kasab's hanging to be delayed.
"I don't want any delay in hanging Kasab. I want fast-track hanging of Kasab", he told reporters at his residence here.
Sandeep, conferred the "Ashok Chakra" posthumously in January 2009, was killed when he started chasing the terrorists who had laid siege to the Taj Hotel in Mumbai.
Hailing from Bangalore, Sandeep Unnikrishnan was team commander of the unit deployed at Taj hotel during operation Black Tornado.
Sandeep was responsible for ensuring the safe evacuation of his colleague commando Sunil Yadav before he succumbed to the bullets.
Later speaking to PTI, Unnikrishnan said "It was a good judgement and public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam has done a good job". He said he was keen that the execution of the sentence should not be delayed in any manner. "Make it quick", he said.
"It is a good judgement but I wish we could do more", he said. "It is unfortunate we can do nothing against those behind it and the other perpetrators of such crime. We are helpless", he said.
Personally, he was of the opinion that Kasab's death sentence might not really drive home a message to the Pakistani terrorists "because they are all hardcore terrorists. How many persons have they killed".
On whether Kasab's death penalty would deliver a blow to Pakistan, he said "India had in the past delivered many such strong messages and blows and even exposed many such cases" but Pakistan was yet to do something about it, he said.
To a question whether he was happy with the judgement, an irked Unnikrishnan said "how can I be happy? I am not happy. I lost what I loved the most. How can you be happy? I would have been happy if Sandeep had returned safe after the operation. No victim's family can be happy".