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...efficiency rarely seen in the Indian court system. This trial, however, is the subject of intense international interest. "We have trials that go on for decades," Mehta says, noting that 65% of the people in Indian jails are simply waiting for their court dates. Convictions in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, for example, were handed down after 13 years, in 2006 and death sentences for several of the accused delivered a year later...
...With the question of Qasab's age set aside, the prosecutor launched a full frontal attack on Pakistan - the unnamed but ever-present fourth defendant on trial in Mumbai. (Qasab's co-defendants are Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Sheikh, both Indians, who were arrested before the Mumbai attacks but are suspected of helping with some preliminary planning.) As he outlined the details of the case, Nikam focused his argument on the second charge of "waging war against the government of India." The attacks, he said, had "the definite target of capturing Kashmir." (Lashkar e Taiba, a jihadi group that...
...opening arguments presented in Mumbai on Friday are any indication, the Mumbai attacks trial will bring the rest of the world along on a wild ride through India's dysfunctional legal system - as well as its troubled relationship with neighboring Pakistan...
...prosecutor, Ujwal Nikam, objected strenuously, arguing that according to the court's record - the confession submitted to a Mumbai magistrate, the jail's entry logs and the charge sheet against him - Qasab had given his date of birth as Sept. 13, 1987. The defense attorney said Qasab does not remember his exact birthday, only that he was less than 17 at the time of the attacks. To resolve the standoff, Tahiliani told Qasab, "Please stand up." Addressing the open court, Tahiliani concluded, "If one looks at Accused No. 1, it looks that he is definitely above 21." At that...
...pictures retracing Qasab's journey from Pakistan to Mumbai...