Ajmal Kasab

Muhammad Ajmal Amir Kasab (13 September 1987 – 21 November 2012) was a Pakistani terrorist, mass murderer and a member of the Salafi jihadist militant organization Lashkar-e-Taiba through which he took part in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Kasab, alongside fellow Lashkar-e-Taiba recruit Ismail Khan, killed 72 people during the attacks, most of them at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. Kasab was the only attacker who was apprehended alive by the police. Kasab was born in Faridkot, Pakistan and left his home in 2005, engaging in petty crime and armed robbery with a friend. In late 2007, he and his friend encountered members of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah, the political wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba, distributing pamphlets, and were persuaded to join. On 3 May 2010, Kasab was found guilty of 80 offences, including murder, waging war against India, possessing explosives, and other charges. On 6 May 2010, he was sentenced to death on four counts and to life imprisonment on five counts. Kasab's death sentence was upheld by the Bombay High Court on 21 February 2011. The verdict was upheld by the Supreme Court of India on 29 August 2012. Kasab was executed by hanging on 21 November 2012 at 7:30 a.m. Indian Standard Time, and subsequently buried within the precincts of Yerwada Central Jail in Pune in a secret grave away way down as to avoid becoming an extremist pilgrimage spot, as Pakistan and Kasab's family refused to carry his body. He was the first person to be executed in India since 2004, when Dhananjoy Chatterjee had raped and murdered an 18-year-old girl, Hetal Parekh, in an apartment complex (Anand Apartments) in flat number 3-A, and was hanged at Kolkata's Alipore Central Jail on 14 August 2004.