As I went through the shocking footages of the hotel cameras which reveal what went on inside the Taj on 26/11 (made public now for the first time as an exclusive by The Sunday Indian – read the cover story that follows), my blood boils once again in rage. Rage against Pakistan, rage against our spineless government which allowed it to happen and though there can be no justice at all for what happened, I demand that Kasab be hanged immediately.
I fail to understand what more does the Government of India need to punish Ajmal Kasab, who was caught red handed, causing mayhem in Mumbai on 26th of November 2008. More so, at a point in time where across the globe, governments have a zero tolerance policy towards terrorism! Such is the extent of intolerance that if on one extreme, the United States of America, under the guise of global terrorism, carried on their hidden agendas and devastated Afghanistan and Iraq, then on the other, Israel, without batting an eyelid, launches its offensive on the least instigation from Palestine. Why go so far? Look what the Sri Lankan government did to LTTE – an outfit which had earned the reputation of being the most dangerous terrorist outfit in the world was uprooted in a matter of days! And here, first we allow Ajmal Kasab and nine others to reach the shores of our country freely, we also allow them to mercilessly take invaluable innocent lives and destroy valuable property, we manage to kill nine of them, finally catch one of them and then keep him guarded for 646 days, without any punishment for reason that fails any sane mind! Specially as the memories of that unfortunate day gets revised through the following pages.
For the records, Ajmal Kasab’s trial ‘officially’ began on the April 15, 2009 and the final verdict is tentatively slated to be announced on February 21, 2011 - a total of 646 days. And mind you, if at all the verdict is passed, about which I have my doubts! What is most insane is that unlike other nations, where in similar cases no one bothers about witnesses or evidences and verdicts are straightaway passed with no consideration whatsoever, in our case, not only did we have enough evidence including the CCTV footages that caught Kasab live in action and live telecast of his movement across all news channels, but Kasab himself accepted all the charges brought against him in the court - and yet the Indian government chose to run a trial on him, instead of hanging him straight!! Furthermore, we have all circumstantial and forensic evidences to prove the same. Yet the Indian government manages to let him go unpunished for all these days!! And like every Indian, I ask: for what has he been kept alive? Is it to make his defence lawyer the most sought-aft er criminal lawyer of India? Or is it to create a poster boy image out of Kasab? And if this is the intention of the Indian government, then I must say that they have been fairly successful!!! Otherwise, where else on the earth does a terrorist, who shot down 166 innocent people and was part of a full-fledged terror attack plot against the Republic of India, not only go unpunished till date but is being served mutton biryani, is given access to newspaper and is provided with his choice of clothing - the latest fetish being wearing a Kurta Payjama. And mind you, it is from the same government who serves other inmates substandard food, two sets of black and white striped dresses and dump them in the middle of most inhumane conditions and that too on account of petty crimes! Also not to forget, that it is the same government, who in the name of bulletproof jackets, served death coffins to its forces, which went on to kill one of the few capable police officers in the same attack!
Honestly, keeping Kasab alive speaks volumes about the indecisive and spineless attitude of our government. And it is not that our government has proven this just to its own citizens. The message has, more dangerously, been conveyed to various terrorist outfits who, by now, know very well that the Indian Government does not have any spine, no matter what they do! And what is worse is that by keeping Kasab alive, the Indian Government has potentially increased the probability of another 26/11, or another IC-814 horror! With all my intention of reiterating, it was again owing to the let-go attitude of Indian Government that the Indian Airlines Airbus A300, en route to Indira Gandhi International Airport from Tribhuvan International Airport on December 24 of 1999, was hijacked to Kandahar with 178 people on board. Th at hijacking led to the release of terrorists like Maulana Masood Azhar (played an active role in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack and later was part of the 26/11 plot), Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (who went on to murder Daniel Pearl) and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar (upon release, he started recruiting and training terrorists in Pakistan-administered Kashmir), in lieu of the hostages! Contrast this to what happened during the Moscow theatre hostage crisis, also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege! And the way the Russian government’s no nonsense attitude towards terrorist demands set an example in front of their countrymen! Same was the case with the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis.
Keeping everything aside, it is needless to state that when it comes to national security, nothing else can be a priority for any government! But in this Kasab episode, it is also intriguing to analyse the economics of keeping Kasab alive for so long! It is estimated that the Maharashtra government has spent a whopping Rs 31 crore in the first one year of Kasab’s arrest. From creating a bullet-proof cell in the JJ Hospital premises (which was never used) to visits by around 24 doctors for his various ailments in the period of just one year - the Maharashtra government did it all! As if this was not enough, this celebrity-terrorist was provided with an imported van costing Rs 6 crore - which got stolen as soon as it reached India. Up and above all this, the Mumbaikars, who had already had enough on account of the 26/11 mayhem, had to bear the delay in newly proposed water pipelines near Arthur Road Jail, which cost BMC another Rs 12 crore while the rerouting of the monorail dented the government’s coffers by another Rs 44 crore – all this on account of security reasons! A back-of-the-envelope calculation indicates that around Rs 100 crore was spent in just one year on Kasab, who came in and destroyed public property worth Rs 41.72 crore! In short - Kasab made our government spend more than what he destroyed. In simple words, Kasab’s upkeep roughly equals to two 26/11s (and counting...).
In this entire Kasab saga which has gradually unfolded, it has been proven again that at best our government is good at condemning the assailants, facilitating the martyrs, compensating the victims, addressing the nation with a false hope and if by chance some terrorist gets arrested – holding him alive till another terror negotiation takes place. And if by chance the negotiation does not happen then there is red carpet waiting to be rolled out to join the Indian Parliament!!! It is just that Ajmal Kasab is from Pakistan. Otherwise, he had all requisite credentials to contest the next elections (just in case we are forgetting Abu Salem)!
I won't waste any more words. Just read the following pages and realise for yourself that a verdict to hang Kasab is the least we can do for those who lost their lives during 26/11. On February 21st the verdict must be “Hang Kasab till death”.
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I fail to understand what more does the Government of India need to punish Ajmal Kasab, who was caught red handed, causing mayhem in Mumbai on 26th of November 2008. More so, at a point in time where across the globe, governments have a zero tolerance policy towards terrorism! Such is the extent of intolerance that if on one extreme, the United States of America, under the guise of global terrorism, carried on their hidden agendas and devastated Afghanistan and Iraq, then on the other, Israel, without batting an eyelid, launches its offensive on the least instigation from Palestine. Why go so far? Look what the Sri Lankan government did to LTTE – an outfit which had earned the reputation of being the most dangerous terrorist outfit in the world was uprooted in a matter of days! And here, first we allow Ajmal Kasab and nine others to reach the shores of our country freely, we also allow them to mercilessly take invaluable innocent lives and destroy valuable property, we manage to kill nine of them, finally catch one of them and then keep him guarded for 646 days, without any punishment for reason that fails any sane mind! Specially as the memories of that unfortunate day gets revised through the following pages.
For the records, Ajmal Kasab’s trial ‘officially’ began on the April 15, 2009 and the final verdict is tentatively slated to be announced on February 21, 2011 - a total of 646 days. And mind you, if at all the verdict is passed, about which I have my doubts! What is most insane is that unlike other nations, where in similar cases no one bothers about witnesses or evidences and verdicts are straightaway passed with no consideration whatsoever, in our case, not only did we have enough evidence including the CCTV footages that caught Kasab live in action and live telecast of his movement across all news channels, but Kasab himself accepted all the charges brought against him in the court - and yet the Indian government chose to run a trial on him, instead of hanging him straight!! Furthermore, we have all circumstantial and forensic evidences to prove the same. Yet the Indian government manages to let him go unpunished for all these days!! And like every Indian, I ask: for what has he been kept alive? Is it to make his defence lawyer the most sought-aft er criminal lawyer of India? Or is it to create a poster boy image out of Kasab? And if this is the intention of the Indian government, then I must say that they have been fairly successful!!! Otherwise, where else on the earth does a terrorist, who shot down 166 innocent people and was part of a full-fledged terror attack plot against the Republic of India, not only go unpunished till date but is being served mutton biryani, is given access to newspaper and is provided with his choice of clothing - the latest fetish being wearing a Kurta Payjama. And mind you, it is from the same government who serves other inmates substandard food, two sets of black and white striped dresses and dump them in the middle of most inhumane conditions and that too on account of petty crimes! Also not to forget, that it is the same government, who in the name of bulletproof jackets, served death coffins to its forces, which went on to kill one of the few capable police officers in the same attack!
Honestly, keeping Kasab alive speaks volumes about the indecisive and spineless attitude of our government. And it is not that our government has proven this just to its own citizens. The message has, more dangerously, been conveyed to various terrorist outfits who, by now, know very well that the Indian Government does not have any spine, no matter what they do! And what is worse is that by keeping Kasab alive, the Indian Government has potentially increased the probability of another 26/11, or another IC-814 horror! With all my intention of reiterating, it was again owing to the let-go attitude of Indian Government that the Indian Airlines Airbus A300, en route to Indira Gandhi International Airport from Tribhuvan International Airport on December 24 of 1999, was hijacked to Kandahar with 178 people on board. Th at hijacking led to the release of terrorists like Maulana Masood Azhar (played an active role in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack and later was part of the 26/11 plot), Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (who went on to murder Daniel Pearl) and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar (upon release, he started recruiting and training terrorists in Pakistan-administered Kashmir), in lieu of the hostages! Contrast this to what happened during the Moscow theatre hostage crisis, also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege! And the way the Russian government’s no nonsense attitude towards terrorist demands set an example in front of their countrymen! Same was the case with the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis.
Keeping everything aside, it is needless to state that when it comes to national security, nothing else can be a priority for any government! But in this Kasab episode, it is also intriguing to analyse the economics of keeping Kasab alive for so long! It is estimated that the Maharashtra government has spent a whopping Rs 31 crore in the first one year of Kasab’s arrest. From creating a bullet-proof cell in the JJ Hospital premises (which was never used) to visits by around 24 doctors for his various ailments in the period of just one year - the Maharashtra government did it all! As if this was not enough, this celebrity-terrorist was provided with an imported van costing Rs 6 crore - which got stolen as soon as it reached India. Up and above all this, the Mumbaikars, who had already had enough on account of the 26/11 mayhem, had to bear the delay in newly proposed water pipelines near Arthur Road Jail, which cost BMC another Rs 12 crore while the rerouting of the monorail dented the government’s coffers by another Rs 44 crore – all this on account of security reasons! A back-of-the-envelope calculation indicates that around Rs 100 crore was spent in just one year on Kasab, who came in and destroyed public property worth Rs 41.72 crore! In short - Kasab made our government spend more than what he destroyed. In simple words, Kasab’s upkeep roughly equals to two 26/11s (and counting...).
In this entire Kasab saga which has gradually unfolded, it has been proven again that at best our government is good at condemning the assailants, facilitating the martyrs, compensating the victims, addressing the nation with a false hope and if by chance some terrorist gets arrested – holding him alive till another terror negotiation takes place. And if by chance the negotiation does not happen then there is red carpet waiting to be rolled out to join the Indian Parliament!!! It is just that Ajmal Kasab is from Pakistan. Otherwise, he had all requisite credentials to contest the next elections (just in case we are forgetting Abu Salem)!
I won't waste any more words. Just read the following pages and realise for yourself that a verdict to hang Kasab is the least we can do for those who lost their lives during 26/11. On February 21st the verdict must be “Hang Kasab till death”.
Comments
If we hang Kasab wothout trial, what is then wrong with encounter killings that happened in Gujarat
Will hanging Kasab solve all the issues!
This post may bring in rave support for you. but if u ask me this is right, I would disagree
Do you first know how noraml people like you suffer in China and Russia. Go there and find out. We have freedom of speach dont misuse it you will be the next wictim.
If stii let us assume that such a law is passed and by mistake parliment gets 2/3 majority then who and all will be hanged is a question.
Why dont you go to scholl and leran your lessons properly
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He should be punished the same way he killed the innocent persons.
He should be shot dead on the same Gateway of India in front of all, and the video should be telecasted to international news channels.
i evn favoured you nd its nt a requst bt an order to d govt to tk action of hanging him,,, he's nt our gest whom v shud let stay nd feed ,,, .....
Just a Joke. ( Now do you still belive Kasab is Pakistan?)
I completely agree that the delay is unjustified and completely intolerable..
Kasab should've been tried and evicted by now !
Our judiciary system has become an object of global mockery now!! Kasab's trial should've been over long back, we should've been celebrating his first death anniversary by now!
As You don’t know about Tamil Nadu I said wait till the results and then speak. For last 40 years Congress has not got entry into that state. This time they will come into ruling. These are strategy which will become clear when Election nears. See the timing.
Regarding Kasab it is foolish to for educated people to ask somebody should be killed. Final question who will sign that paper. You are not telling that. Many times decisions in Supreme court has overruled High court decision. In all death cases mercy petion has to be scrutinized. In Kangaroo courts as in Dubai 8 Indians have been convicted for death sentence. The whole world will be watchingwhat we are doing.
The decisions in courts can be speeded up. But it is not that easy because main delay is because of availability of good judges. Over and above this there are many accusations against Judges. This is not case justice delayed is justice denied. If Kasab rots in Jail for some more years it does not affect us.
I leant in 8 th. standard that in democracy 100 guilty men can roam on rad but 1 innocent man must not be punished. So due peocess of law has to follow. Nobody, repeat nobody can hurry up with any vested interest (in this case sheer Hatred).
Enough is enough policy should be in place for such a case which was a open and shut case with enough evidence available on day 1.
He should be shot at Gateway of India on a live telecast, And it should be with a team of snipers with one bullet shot at him every 15 mins so that eh too realize the pain he inflicted on his victims and also for the future terrorists to see what will happen to them too... If swift and painful punishments are not inflicted then we would always remain victims of terrorism.Let the punishment be brutal especially for those who killed mercilessly.
It definitely should be a Firing Squad and that too a slow one. It should be a painful death for him in the end.
Enough is enough !
JUST HANGGGG THEM NOWWWWWWW !!!!!!!
"THE VERDICT STANDS KASAB SHALL BE HANGED TILL DEATH NOW" AND NOT BECAUSE I'M A HINDU BUT BECAUSE I'M A PROUD INDIAN.
U can do something new.i am always with u.
Typically BJP will send one RSS criminal (Most of them are criminals say like Dara singh Who killed an Australian Priest and his two children while sleeping in a Van They did not even have a home) in to the same cell as Kasab and just kill him. Then of course they can say he is a great patriot and came under emotional stress and he did it so acquitted. As they claim about all their actions. Killing Gandhiji, Breaking Masjid, Bombing Samjautha express. Reaction to Godhra -killing 3000? Muslims etc. All are great patriots. In Loksabha when Babri masjid was being discussed without wasting even 1 second all BJP was shouting Vajpayee zindabad for 2 Hrs. Non stop. This is their way of debating. ( Now you understand the meaning why I call N Indian uncultured. No cultured man is coming and opposing this and many such actions will be continued to be done by BJP.
You said that 175000 crores is a blitent lie told by congress.u also said that if 2G sprectrums auctioned according to norms then call charge should be 50 rupees.
I cant understand why r u saying that.no matter whatever the call rate should should be.there es only question of big loss to nation.u cannot compare national property with call rates.telecom companies ruduced their call rates not just because of competition but also because of low fees paid by them for licences.they nothing doing social work by reducing call rates.they forget their bussines responsibilities towards government and society.call rates are not more important issue.such wastage of national property es concernable issue.
Govt tried to reduce fiscal deficit.but how can it possible when total corruption in a year es estimated about half of it,s annual budget.one thing u must have to accept that if 175000 crores es a lie told by congress,then the real price should not be less than 70 - 80 thousand crores rupees.
We dont to understand how telcos pay their sprectrum fees if sprectrums were allotted at the market price.
Government need 2/3 majority to hangout afjal guru.i cant understand why all member of parliament cannot support to government for that.
2/3 majority you did not read my comment even then Supreme court will nullify it as it is against the fundamental principles of our constitution
The reason for the apparent negligence towards bringing him to justice is not that the government (Legislature, Executive, Judiciary) or the IPS, is lazy.
The reason, instead, is political. Sarabjit Singh is an Indian citizen currently facing a death sentence in Pakistan for allegedly causing major bomb blasts in Lahore that killed 14 Pakistani people. To pakistanis, and understandably, he is a terrorist. This is known to the whole world. Therefore, openly expressing our contempt for Pakistan, and calling it a terrorist nation, at this stage, would make us sound only hypocritical and ignorant. Also, discreetly, the Indian and Pakistani govts have had an agreement: india will not hang kasab if pakistan will not hang sarabjit. India plans to bring sarabjit into indian soil where he can be tried and, if found guilty, convicted. Pakistan wishes to do the same wth Kasab.
Hence, the best solution i can think of, is hanging kasab; and to think of sarabjit's resultant termination as inevitable and collateral damage and move on. Let Sarabjit's nationality not eclipse what Kasab did to us.
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