Pune, Nov.21 Ajmal Kasab, the prime
accused for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, was hanged at Pune"s Yerawada
Jail at 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday,after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his mercy
petition.
According to television reports, the
petition was rejected on November 5 after which the Lashkar-e-Toiba operative
was shifted from Mumbai"s Arthur Road Jail to Pune"s Yerawada Jail.
The entire process was excuted in
complete secrecy, television channels said. President Mukherjee"s rejection
came two months after the Union Home Ministry rejected Kasab"s mercy
petition.
Kasab and nine other Lashkar-e-Taiba
terrorists had sailed into Mumbai on November 26, 2008 from Karachi and killed
166 people.
