Seventeen months after the Mumbai attacks, a special court on Monday convicted the lone surviving 26/11 Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab, holding him guilty on 86 charges including waging war on India, murders of 166 Indian citizens and 25 foreigners and injuring 304 people.
The court had on Monday held him guilty of various offences, including mass murders and waging war against the nation.
The prosecution, led by Ujjwal Nikam, is likely to demand death sentence for Kasab on the ground that he had committed heinous crime, while defence lawyer K P Pawar might demand a lighter sentence of life imprisonment or even less.
Kasab has a right to file an appeal in the Bombay High Court against the verdict of the trial court. At the same time the trial court judgement would be referred to the High Court for confirmation.
