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...Accused Mumbai terrorist Mohammad Amir Ajmal Qasab whose trial began Wednesday in Mumbai, was appointed a new lawyer today after his first lawyer was dismissed for a potential conflict of interest. The new lawyer, who was appointed by the court will be paid an undisclosed special fee given the unusual circumstances of the trial...
...five feet tall but with powerful shoulders under his loose, long sleeved t-shirt, appeared in court this morning with two other co-accused, Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin, inside the Arthur Road jail complex. Qasab, a Pakistani national, was the only surviving suspect from the Nov. 26 attacks on Mumbai that killed about 170 people; Ansari and Sabahuddin, who are Indian, were arrested separately and are accused of helping to plan the attacks. All three of them were barefoot and wore the same clothes as they did yesterday, sitting together on a bench in one corner of the courtroom...
...Qasab has been in custody since Nov. 26, the first night of the attacks. Ansari, who was arrested last February, was found to be carrying a rough drawing of Mumbai landmarks. Sabahuddin, who was arrested for allegedly planning a bomb targeting Bangalore's Indian Institute of Sciences, is accused of doing legwork for the Mumbai attack. Both were brought to Mumbai late last year to be tried jointly with Qasab...
...judge announced that he had appointed Abbas Kazmi as Qasab's new lawyer. "I am willing," Kazmi said. Tahiliani named another lawyer, A.A. Walwalkar, as a back-up for the other two defendants in case Naqvi does not show up. (See pictures retracing Qasab's steps from Pakistan to Mumbai...
...question of Kazmi's fee was then the subject of a heated exchange. Kazmi had made a request for a special undisclosed fee, different from what would normally be granted to a court-appointed lawyer in Mumbai - Rs. 900 (about $18) for the entire case. The fee is shockingly small even by the standards of India's poorly paid junior lawyers, but the prosecutor in the case, Ujwal Nikam, objected vehemently to Kazmi's request. He argued that making an exception would encourage other court-appointed lawyers to demand special fees in future cases. Qasab's lawyer was supposed...