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| Ajmal Kasab hanged, buried at Pune's Yerwada Jail | | | agencies
Mumbai, Nov 21: Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, 25, the only terrorist caught alive during the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai, was hanged at Pune's Yerwada Jail at 7.30 this morning. It was a swift and secret execution, just two weeks after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his mercy petition. A few hours after he was hanged, Kasab's body, unclaimed by the Pakistan government or his family, was buried at the jail.
A Pakistani human rights activist, Ansar Burney, has now offered to claim the terrorist's body, "on humanitarian grounds." Soon after Kasab was hanged, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said India had informed the Pakistan government yesterday about Kasab's hanging, but, he said, Islamabad had refused to acknowledge the letter that was both couriered and faxed through its High Commission in Delhi. Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid said it was faxed after India tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to give it to Pakistan by hand.
Pakistan has refuted this saying it has "received and acknowledged" India's note. Mr Khurshid said India's message to the world was that "India stand by the rule of law." (Read)
Sources said India also sent word about Kasab's execution by a special letter to an address in Pakistan that the terrorist had given as that of his family. Kasab, who was informed on November 12 that he would be hanged, had reportedly requested that his mother be informed about it. He had no other last wish and left no will.
The President rejected Ajmal Kasab's mercy petition on November 5, Mr Shinde said. The process thereafter was swift and kept top secret, with even the most senior officials informed only on a need to know basis. "These are sensitive matters...we managed to keep it secret," Mr Khurshid said. Minister of State for Home, RPN Singh said, "We did not want to make it a jamboree kind of thing. Justice was done as law required. We should not look deep into why it was done in secrecy... it was because we did not want to make it into a whole hoopla." Paperwork between Delhi and Mumbai done, Kasab was moved from his bullet-proof, secure cell in Mumbai's Arthur Road jail to Pune on Monday. The Yerwada jail is one of two in Maharashtra equipped to handle execution by hanging.
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