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| Kasab confesses 26/11 crime | | | Agencies
Mumbai, July 20: Lone captured Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab on Monday confessed to his role in carrying out the Nov 26, 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.
Kasab, made the confessions after requesting to speak to Special Judge M L Tahilyani and narrated the entire sequence of events right from setting off to India from Karachi till his arrest.
“Sir, mujhe mera gunah kabul hai (I plead guilty to my crime),” Kasab told the court.
He revealed before the stunned courtroom names of his Pakistani handlers, including Abu Hamza, Abu Jindal, Abu Kafa and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who saw them off when they boarded a ship at Karachi.
He said that the entire journey from Karachi to Mumbai was completed in four different boats at various locations in the Arabian Sea.
In his confession, Kasab said that Hamza advised them how to go about the terror attacks, how he placed one bomb in a taxi (which later exploded at Mazagaon, a south Mumbai area) and how the 10-member team of which he was sole survivor went about their mission.
Naming Lakhvi as "the mastermind" behind the Mumbai terror mayhem, Kasab described in detail how he and his associate Abu Ismail (who was shot by the police) went to a CST public toilet and assembled one of the bombs by installing a timer in it for use later.
He also described details about the incidents at the CST and Cama hospital to being finally nabbed after a gunfight by the Mumbai police.
Kasab along with his accomplice Abu Ismail had attacked CST and Cama Hospital firing indiscriminately and killing several people. The duo were also involved in the killing of senior police officers Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar
Importantly, on Sunday, Islamabad had acknowledged that besides Ajmal Kasab, two more of the ten terrorists who attacked Mumbai on 26/11 — Imran Babar and Abdur were Pakistani nationals.
Kasab and other accused also face conspiracy charges for the firing at hotels Taj and Oberoi, Nariman House, Leopold Cafe restaurant and planting a bomb that exploded at Vile Parle.
Earlier on May 6, Kasab, who has been charged with the murder of 72 people, had pleaded not guilty to all charges framed against him. Two others accused -- Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed – have also pleaded not guilty.
When the Special Court judge ML Tahaliyani explained the charges framed against him, Kasab said, “Yeh sab galat hain, hume yeh kabool nahin hain (All this is wrong, I do not accept this).”
India has been consistently saying that the assault on Mumbai, in which more than 150 people were killed, was carried out by Pakistan-based militants with backing from some official Pakistani agencies.
Expressing satisfaction with the turn of event, Special Public Prosecutor Ujaml Nikam said, “It is the victory of the prosecution, Kasab perhaps due to psychological pressure. Eventually the cat is out of the bag.”
Until now, over 133 of the total 150 witnesses have been examined in the different cases of the 26/11 attacks filed against Kasab.
Maharasthra Chief Minister, while speaking to news channel, expressed happiness on the progress of the case in the court.
“This is the success of the Maharashtra police and Prosecutor Ujwal Nikam. This doesn’t end here, we expect the judicial process to end as soon as possible so that all the accused are given the strongest punishment by the court,” said Chavan.
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