Pakistan terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab was hanged in Yerwada Jail in Pune on Wednesday after a four-year-long trial. Kasab, who was being kept at the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai, was moved to the Yerwada jail very secretly on Sunday night to implement the orders.
In a formal announcement made by Maharashtra home minister early at 8:30 am today, RR Patil said, "Kasab's hanging is a tribute to all the 166 people killed as well as those police officer martyred in the attack."
"Today, 7:30AM, Ajmal Kasab was hanged in the Uerwada prison," confirmed Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde. "Of the 10 people who attacked Mumbai, one was arrested alive. Just as I landed from the Interpol meeting in Rome on November 5, the mercy petition lay before me. We had recommended that his mercy petition be rejected. Later, it was rejected by the President on November 8."
