The lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks that left 166 people dead has approached the Indian Supreme Court asking for his death sentence to be overturned, a court source said Friday.
The source said the request by Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab had been filed via jail authorities in Mumbai, where he has been held since the attacks, and lodged with the secretary general of the court.
"He filed the appeal through the Arthur Road jail authorities," the source said, asking not to be named.
Pakistani national Kasab was convicted and sentenced by a trial court in Mumbai and the death sentence was confirmed by the state high court.
The way the judiciary works in India, it will not at all be surprising to see one day that Kasab gets BAIL and is free to go to Pakistan. God help us when that day arrives.
