1. Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab was a Pakistani terrorist and a member of the Islamist terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba through which he took part in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks in Maharashtra, India.
51 Facts About Ajmal Kasab
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Ajmal Kasab was the only attacker who was apprehended alive by the police.
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Ajmal Kasab was born in Faridkot, Pakistan and left his home in 2005, engaging in petty crime and armed robbery with a friend.
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On 3 May 2010, Ajmal Kasab was found guilty of 80 offences, including murder, waging war against India, possessing explosives, and other charges.
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Ajmal Kasab was born in Faridkot village in the Okara District of Punjab, Pakistan, to Amir Shahban Ajmal Kasab and Noor Illahi.
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Ajmal Kasab's father ran a snack cart while his elder brother, Afzal, worked as a labourer in Lahore.
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Ajmal Kasab briefly joined his brother in Lahore and then returned to Faridkot.
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Ajmal Kasab left home after a fight with his father in 2005.
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Ajmal Kasab had asked for new clothes on Eid al-Fitr, but his father could not provide them, which made him angry.
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Ajmal Kasab engaged in petty crime with his friend Muzaffar Lal Khan, eventually moving on to armed robbery.
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An interrogator and deputy commissioner of the Mumbai Police stated that Ajmal Kasab spoke rough Hindi and almost no English.
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Ajmal Kasab said his father in effect sold him to Lashkar-e-Taiba so that he could use the money they gave him to support the family.
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Ajmal Kasab was among a group of 24 men who received training in marine warfare at a remote camp in the mountainous areas of Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.
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Ajmal Kasab was seen on CCTV during his attacks at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus along with another recruit, Ismail Khan.
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Ajmal Kasab joked about the bullet resistant vests worn by the police and killed one constable, Yogesh Patil, when his mobile phone rang.
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Omble held onto Ajmal Kasab's weapon, enabling Omble's colleagues to capture Ajmal Kasab alive.
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The doctors who treated Ajmal Kasab said he had no bullet wounds.
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Ajmal Kasab told police he was trained to "kill to the last breath".
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Ajmal Kasab told interrogators that all through the operation, the Lashkar headquarters from Karachi, Pakistan, remained in touch with the group, calling their phones through a voice-over-Internet service.
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Police announced Ajmal Kasab was a Pakistani national based on his confession and other evidence.
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Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif confirmed that Ajmal Kasab was from Faridkot village in Pakistan, and criticised President Asif Ali Zardari for cordoning off the village and not allowing his parents to meet anyone.
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Ajmal Kasab's parents left town on the night of 3 December 2008.
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Mumbai Joint Police Commissioner of Crime Rakesh Maria said Ajmal Kasab was from the Faridkot village in the Okara District of Pakistan's Punjab province and was the son of Mohammed Amir Ajmal Kasab.
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The Mumbai Police said much of the information that Ajmal Kasab provided proved to be accurate.
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Ajmal Kasab disclosed the location of a fishing trawler, MV Kuber, that the terrorists used to enter Mumbai's coastal waters.
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Ajmal Kasab told investigators where his team put the ship captain's body, a satellite phone and a global-positioning device, which the police found.
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In January 2009, Pakistan's National Security Advisor Mahmud Ali Durrani admitted to Ajmal Kasab being a Pakistani citizen while speaking to the CNN-IBN news channel.
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Ajmal Kasab described how his team arrived at Mumbai from Karachi via Porbandar.
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Ajmal Kasab said that they had received revolvers, AK-47s, ammunition and dried fruit from their coordinator.
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Ajmal Kasab told the police that he and his associate, Ismail Khan, were the ones who shot Anti-Terror Squad chief Hemant Karkare, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and Additional Commissioner Ashok Kamte.
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Ajmal Kasab entered the Taj posing as a student from Mauritius and stored explosives in one of the hotel's rooms.
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In December 2009, Ajmal Kasab retracted his confession in court, claiming he had come to Mumbai to act in Bollywood films and was arrested by the Mumbai police three days before the attacks.
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Ajmal Kasab repeatedly asked the interrogators to turn the camera off and warned them he would not speak otherwise.
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On 9 August 2012, Ajmal Kasab was brought face-to-face with Abu Jundal, the handler of the Mumbai attacks, at the Arthur Road Jail where they identified each other.
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Several Indian lawyers refused to represent Ajmal Kasab citing ethical concerns.
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In December 2008, the Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan said that for a fair trial, Kasab needed a lawyer.
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Ajmal Kasab wrote to the High Commission of Pakistan in India requesting help and legal aid.
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Ajmal Kasab asked the Pakistani High Commission to take custody of the body of fellow terrorist Ismail Khan.
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Ajmal Kasab's conviction was based on CCTV footage showing him striding across the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus with an AK-47 and a backpack.
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Ajmal Kasab was charged with murder, conspiracy and waging war against India along with other crimes.
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Ajmal Kasab's trial was scheduled to start on 15 April 2009 but was postponed as his lawyer, Anjali Waghmare was dismissed for a conflict of interest.
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On 6 May 2009, Ajmal Kasab pleaded not guilty to 86 charges.
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On 2 June 2009, Ajmal Kasab told the judge he understood the Marathi language.
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On 20 July 2009, Ajmal Kasab retracted his non-guilty plea and pleaded guilty to all charges.
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On 30 July 2011, Ajmal Kasab moved to Supreme Court of India, challenging his conviction and sentence in the case.
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On 29 August 2012, Ajmal Kasab was again found guilty of waging war and was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of India.
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Ajmal Kasab was then asked to sign his death warrant, which he did.
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Ajmal Kasab's attitude was of resignation when he came to know that his mercy petition was rejected by the president.
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Ajmal Kasab did not shed a single tear during the last few days.
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Ajmal Kasab was placed in a special cell when he was at Yerwada and no other inmates were informed of his presence.
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Shinde later stated that Ajmal Kasab's body was buried in India because Pakistan had refused to claim it.