Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab (13 July 1987 – 21 November 2012) was a Pakistani militant and a member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamist militant organisation. He took part in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks in Maharashtra state of India. Kasab killed 72 people during the attacks, most of them at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. On 3 May 2010, Kasab was found guilty of 80 offences, including murder, waging war against India, possessing explosives, and other charges. His death sentence was upheld by the Bombay High Court on 21 February 2011, and the verdict was upheld in the Supreme Court of India on 29 August 2012.
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Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab (13 July 1987 – 21 November 2012) was a Pakistani militant and a member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamist militant organisation. He took part in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks in Maharashtra state of India. Kasab killed 72 people during the attacks, most of them at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. On 3 May 2010, Kasab was found guilty of 80 offences, including murder, waging war against India, possessing explosives, and other charges. His death sentence was upheld by the Bombay High Court on 21 February 2011, and the verdict was upheld in the Supreme Court of India on 29 August 2012. He was hanged at Yerwada Jail in Pune on November 21 2012, and was buried at a cemetery in the nearby city of Faridkot. He left his home in 2005, engaging in petty crime and armed robbery with a friend. In late 2007, he and his friend encountered members of Jama’at-ud-Da’wah distributing pamphlets, and were persuaded to join. He said his father in effect sold him to the group so that he could use the money they gave him to support the family. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi reportedly offered to pay his family Rs. 150,000 for his participation in the attacks. Another report said the 23-year-old was recruited from his home, in part, based on a pledge by recruiters to pay Rs. 100,000 to his family if he became a martyr. Villagers of Okara claimed on camera that he was at their village six months before the Mumbai attack.
They said that he asked his mother to bless him as he was going for jihad, and claimed that he demonstrated his wrestling skills to a few village boys that day. His elder sister, Rukaiyya Husain, was married and lived in the village. He briefly joined his brother in Lahore and then returned to FaridKot. He was among a group of 24 men who received training in marine warfare at a remote camp in mountainous Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir in Pakistan. He told police that he wanted to replicate the Taj Hotel attack, and reduce the police to rubble, replicating the 911 call that they made to the Islamabad Marriott hotel. He and his accomplice Ismail Khan, aged 25, then attacked the Ch Hatrapati Shivaji Terminus. They then moved to attack a police vehicle at Cama Hospital, in which senior police officers were travelling, killing them in a gun battle and taking two constables hostage. The two men then drove towards the Metro Cinema, where Kasab and Khan fired some shots into a crowd gathered at a cinema, killing two police constables in the crowd. The pair then killed one constable when his mobile phone rang and killed one of the police constable wearing bulletproof vests worn by the police. The only attacker captured alive by police was Kasab.
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