Kasab Sentenced

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  Congress Leaders Taking Side Of 26/11 Attacker Ajmal Kasab: PM's Charge

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed on Monday that the Congress party has given a clean chit to Pakistan for orchestrating the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and has even supported Ajmal Kasab, a terrorist convicted and later sentenced to death, for hi

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  Opinion: Charged Debate Over Yakub Memon Overlooked This

  How does one compare wrongdoing? Why should an Ajmal Kasab hang if those who killed Rajiv Gandhi don't need to? How is Yakub Memon designated more evil and less capable of redemption than Surendra Koli, the child killer of Nithari?

• Man gets 15 months in jail for hoax terror call to airline

  A special court in Mumbai today sentenced a man to 15 months' imprisonment for making a hoax call to an airline's office, threatening to hijack a plane to get Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Kasab released.

• Devender Pal Singh Bhullar's appeal rejected. Supreme Court verdict could impact other death row prisoners

  The Supreme Court has ruled that Punjab militant Devender Pal Singh Bhullar will be executed for killing nine people with a car bomb in 2009 in Delhi.

• Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's appeal rejected. Supreme Court verdict could impact other death row prisoners

  Devinderpal Singh Bhullar's appeal rejected: The Supreme Court has ruled that a death sentence cannot be commuted to life imprisonment because of a delay in execution. The court has rejected an appeal by Devinderpal Singh Bhullar against his hanging, and could impact the cases of 16 other prisoners on death row who have pleaded against their punish...

• DMK chief M Karunanidhi asks for death penalty to be abolished

  DMK chief M Karunanidhi has appealed for the death penalty to be abolished. Earlier this month, Afzal Guru from Kashmir was hanged for his role in 2001's deadly attack on Parliament. In November, Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab was executed for the 26/11 strikes in Mumbai in which 166 people were killed.

• David Headley sentenced to 35 years in prison for role in 26/11

  Minutes before David Coleman Headley was sentenced to 35 years in prison for helping plan a deadly attack on Mumbai, India, one of his victims tearfully pleaded for a harsh punishment despite the terrorist plotter's widespread cooperation with U.S. investigators following his arrest.

• After Kasab's execution, Pak accepts plea for more security for Indian diplomats

  India and Pakistan are locked in a war of words over whether the communication sent to Islamabad informing it of 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab's hanging had been received and acknowledged. India maintains that it got no acknowledgement of the letter, while Pakistan says it has been sent.

• Pakistan claims it 'received and acknowledged' India's letter on decision to hang Ajmal Kasab

  Pakistan has rejected India's assertion that Islamabad had refused to accept a letter informing it of the decision to hang Ajmal Kasab, the only terrorist who was captured alive during the 26/11 attacks. The Pakistan government has said that it had "received that note and acknowledged its receipt".

• 'Kasab hanged, what about Afzal Guru?' asks BJP

  Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab's swift execution this morning has brought political attention to another prominent prisoner on death row, Afzal Guru, who was convicted for conspiracy in the December 13, 2001, attack on Parliament and was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court in 2004.

• Supreme Court order on Kasab boosts India's case ahead of PM, Asif Ali Zardari meet

  With the Supreme Court on Wednesday upholding the death sentence on the Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, India's case for action against others involved in the Mumbai terror attacks got strengthened ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari in Tehran today.

• Supreme Court upholds Ajmal Kasab's death sentence, says he 'waged war against India'

  The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab. The court rejected a plea by Kasab, the only terrorist caught alive during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, to commute the death sentence handed to him by the Bombay High Court, to life imprisonment.

• Supreme Court judgement on Ajmal Kasab's death sentence

  The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, the only terrorist caught alive during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008. Kasab wanted his death sentence, handed to him by the Bombay High Court, to be commuted to life imprisonment

• Ajmal Kasab's death sentence upheld by Supreme Court: Excerpts from the judgement

  Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab's death sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court. Kasab, the only terrorist caught alive during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, wanted the death sentence handed to him by the Bombay High Court to be commuted to life imprisonment. Today's verdict was pronounced by a two judge bench of Justices CK Prasad ...

• Supreme Court upholds Kasab's death sentence: Who said what

  The Supreme Court has rejected 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab's plea asking the court to commute the death sentence handed to him by the Bombay High Court to life imprisonment. The court observed today that it was "left with no option but to uphold the sentence" because the primary offence that Kasab was charged with was waging war against India.