People might hang me for saying this but i feel sad and even sorry for Ajmal Kasab.Yes he killed 7 people and yes he waged a war against India but it was not his war. He just fell prey to temptation and probably a lot of brainwashing. The same kind of brainwashing which led a seemingly educated engineer to ram an aircraft in the World Trade Center.
Indians will feel happy and satisfied if he is sentenced to death. Infact keeping him alive wont help either because that again will burn holes in the Indian exchequer. But the point is what will his death or even Afzal Guru's death for that matter achieve. Dhananjoy was given a death sentence in a rape case but did that stop rape incidents across the country?
Ajmal Kasab will be killed. That is his fate. Now either he will be hanged or if he is awarded anything less than a death penality, will be 'encountered' by some Daya Nayak kind of cop who will feel cheated by the Indian Judiciary. In any case it will be in the interest of India to hang him else we may have another IC 814 soon, with kasab's bosses demanding his return for the some 200 innocent lives onboard an aircraft parked 'safely' in some hostile nation.
Though I have new found respect for the police now. They have shown exemplary restraint by keeping Ajmal Kasab alive at any cost (Rs 31 crores/month). It would have been painful for them to keep the same man safe and healthy who killed or was responsible for the death of so many of their own colleagues and so easy for them to kill him in a fit of rage.
Whatever the case may be the question remains the same even if all the 26/11 terrorist had been caught alive and tried and then sentenced to death would it have solved India's problem. Would it have ensured that there will be no more 26/11s in the country. We still would have been kowtowing before the US, and instead of doing what we are supposed to do in such a situation still be trying to convince US that it(26/11) indeed happend and it was done by Pakistan.
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