Ajmal Kasab hanged in Pune's Yerwada jail at 7.30 am
President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected the mercy petition filed by Ajmal Kasab, the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist sentenced to death for his role in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attack.
The decision was taken following the advice of the union home ministry, a highly placed source told The Indian Express. All the papers have been signed, the source said.
Earlier in October, the Home Ministry had rejected the mercy plea of Kasab. The ministry had sent its recommendation to President Pranab Mukherjee.
The Pakistani gunman who was lodged in the bomb-proof and an egg-shaped cell at the high-security Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai may have very quietly been shifted from to Pune's Yerwada Central Jail.
Yerwada is well-equipped to hang the prime convict.
The Supreme Court upheld Kasab's conviction and death sentence in August this year.
Kasab was the only terrorist captured alive after the attacks in Mumbai that began on November 26, 2008.
When Mukherjee took over as President in July this year, there were mercy petitions from 16 convicts sentenced to death in 11 cases pending with Rashtrapati Bhavan. Kasabs petition, submitted after he took office, is the first to be decided by him.
Ajmal Kasab hanged in Pune's Yerwada jail at 7.30 am
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