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, in a swift and secret execution.
An hour later, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil announced the hanging and said "166 people were killed in the terrorist attack...I sincerely believe this is a tribute to all innocent people and the officers who lost their lives." Doctors in Pune confirmed that the terrorist was dead.
It took the Maharashtra government less than two weeks to hang Kasab after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his mercy petition on November 5. Two days later, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde signed on the file. It was sent to the Maharashtra government on November 8 and November 21, today, was fixed as the date of execution, Mr Shinde said, adding, "we need to keep such things secret, but I had told the nation we would take action." He said the Indian high commission in Islamabad had informed Pakistan about the hanging yesterday. Kasab's family was also informed. The minister said Pakistan hadn't laid claim to the terrorist's body yet.
So secret was the operation that even top police officers in Mumbai did not know of it, sources said. The Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist was shifted from Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail to Pune's Yerwada Jail this Monday. Yerwada Jail is one of the two jails in Maharashtra where prisoners on death row are hanged.
166 people were killed over three days of terror, when 10 men from Pakistan sailed into Mumbai in November 2008. They split into pairs and spent 72 hours targeting the city's landmarks. A hospital and two big hotels were attacked; a main railway station was, so was a Jewish centre. Kasab was the only terrorist who was caught alive.
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A relief to all Indian. May his Soul Never Rest in Peace 
and keep haunting ISI, Pakistani Diplomats and Other Terrorists. 
