SC to hear Kasab plea tomorrow

The Supreme Court will on Monday hear the plea of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict Amir Ajmal Kasab challenging his death penalty. A special bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Chandramouli K Prasad will sit together for the first time for a preliminary hearing on the letter written by Kasab to suspend his death sentence.

The court-appointed amicus curiae,Gaurav Agrawal,will lead the arguments in the hearing. Kasab was the only terrorist to have been caught alive during the November 2008 terror siege of Mumbai in which 166 people were killed. He was sentenced to death by a special anti-terror court on May 6,2010. His death penalty was later upheld by the Bombay High Court. He wrote his letter to the SC on July 28.

The court had earlier refused to pass any order on Maharashtra’s plea to tag Kasab’s letter along with its own appeal against the acquittal of two other 26/11 accused.