A tea vendor at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, one of the sites of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, celebrates on Thursday on hearing that special court judge M.L. Tahiliyani has sentenced Ajmal Aamir Kasab to death. Kasab was the lone 26/11 attacker taken alive.     PHOTO:  Rajesh Jadhav

New Delhi, May 6: Despite the euphoria over a possible early hanging of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, sentenced to death for the 26/11 attack, his execution might be a long-drawn process as the prosecuting agency is yet to cross several legal hurdles.

Mumbai, May 6: Ajmal Aamir Kasab, the lone 26/11 terrorist captured alive, was sentenced to death by a special court on Thursday. “Kasab shall be hanged by the neck till dead,” judge M.L. Tahiliyani said. The court sent him to the gallows on four counts — waging war against the nation, murder, conspiracy to commit murder and indulging in terrorist activities.

Mumbai, May 6: Ajmal Aamir Kasab, the lone 26/11 terrorist captured alive, was sentenced to death by a special court on Thursday. “Kasab shall be hanged by the neck till dead,” judge M.L. Tahiliyani said. The court sent him to the gallows on four counts — waging war against the nation, murder, conspiracy to commit murder and indulging in terrorist activities.

Mumbai,  May 6: Special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam wanted the special court at Arthur Road jail to give an order of recovery of compensation worth Rs 155 crores to the LeT for damages caused by the terrorist outfit to public and private property during the 26/11 terror attacks.
 

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Srinagar/New Delhi, May 6: Eight years after Faesal Rasool Shah’s schoolteacher father Gulam Rasool Shah was slain by militants at Sogam, his native village in Kupwara, this 27-year-old Srinagar doctor has topped the 2009 Civil Services Examination in his very first attempt.

Ranchi,  May 6: In an amazing U-turn from his ambition-driven posturing, Jharkhand CM Shibu Soren’s son Hemant Soren, JMM legislature party leader, on Thursday resigned from the state Assembly to vacate his seat for Soren Senior to contest a byelection and

Conservative Party leader David Cameron talks to staff at supermarket chain Morrisons’ distribution centre in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, on Wednesday. The general election on Thursday is expected to throw up Britain’s first hung Parliament since 1974.    PHOTO: AP

A TV grab shows SP chief Mulayam Singh pacifying RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in the Lok Sabha in New Delhi on Wednesday after BJP leader Ananth Kumar called him a “traitor” and “anti-national”. PHOTO: PTI

New Delhi, May 5: The Supreme Court, placing the fundamental rights of citizens on a higher pedestal, ruled that any attempt by police agencies to forcibly carry out narco, polygraph and brain-mapping tests of accused persons was “illegal and unconstitutional”.