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The special court conducting the trial of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack will sentence Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani gunman, on Thursday, exactly a year to the day it began hearing the case, after the prosecution sought the death penalty on Tuesday for his heinous crimes.But the state-appointed lawyer of the Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist pleaded that the 22-year-old man be given the lesser sentence of life imprisonment as that would give him a chance to reform himself, a day after Special Judge ML Tahaliyani found him guilty of most of the 86 charges leveled against him.Calling Kasab a "killing machine manufactured in Pakistan", Special Public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said "if Kasab isn't given the maximum punishment of death sentence, then we would continue to remain a soft target for every self-styled organisation".Citing a series of aggravating circumstances that put Kasab in the 'rarest of rare' category, Nikam argued, "if he isn't hanged by the neck then it would amount to mockery of justice". Pointing to the evidence of witnesses and the confessional statement given by Kasab, Nikam said that it showed Kasab was in a 'joyous mood' as he saw innocent people die at the CST railway station. "He wanted to gun down maximum people," he added.Kasab, who was dressed in a white kurta-pyjama, was seen dozing off sitting in the dock. Later, he got up and left the courtroom when the judge asked policemen to take him tohis cell and bring him back on Thursday.Quoting from nine Supreme Court judgments to justify the death penalty, Nikam said, "We don't want barbaric justice but justice for the society to stop this murderer forever". Nikam also called Kasab a "demon of society" and referring to epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, said virtue always wins over vice. "Similarly, a man of unscrupulous nature with a total disregard for human life should be hanged till death," he said.However, seeking life imprisonment for his client, defence lawyer KP Pawar argued that Kasab who is barely 22 years of age, should be given a chance to rehabilitate and reform himself. "He was brainwashed by (Lashkar founder) Hafiz Saeed and (operational commander) Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and others to launch a war against India," Pawar said, adding that Kasab was mentally unwell and joined the other terrorists after watching videos of carnages in Kashmir, Godhra and the Malegaon bomb blast.Nikam, however, countered those arguments. "Kasab is a heartless person. A heartless person is a curse to society and the offence was such that any chance given to him to reform would not be good enough," he said. He also claimed that Kasab's confession to the magistrate was with an intention to ensure that others are inspired by his acts.
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