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The Shiv Sena has demanded that the lone surviving 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab be publicly hanged in front of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal (CST) railway station without a trial.
In an editorial in its mouthpiece Saamna, which is edited by Sena chief Bal Thackeray, the party said since the entire world had watched the carnage by the terrorists in Mumbai, there was no need for an inquiry, examining evidence or giving Kasab an opportunity to defend himself.
Demanding that Kasab be hanged publicly in front of the CST, where he and his accomplice killed innocent people, the editorial said, “The punishment will not be adequate even if he is hanged a hundred times.”
The Sena has justified the wrath of Shiv Sainiks unleashed on two lawyers — Ashok Sarogi and Mahesh Deshmukh — for volunteering to defend Kasab on grounds that the crime was unpardonable and that, “it is a shame on the country that some betray our soil by daring to take up the brief (of Kasab)”.
