MUMBAI: Ajmal Kasab on trial in India over last year’s Mumbai attacks
pleaded not guilty to all charges on Wednesday, including waging war against the country . Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, denied 86
charges which were formally put to him at a special prison court in
Mumbai that is hearing evidence about the November 26-29 attacks, when
166 people were killed and more than 300 injured.
The defendant, wearing a buttoned-down mauve shirt and blue jeans, looked relaxed as he replied in Hindi to the indictment.
“It is all wrong,” he told the court. “I do not accept the charges.”
In
court documents, Kasab gave his full name as Mohammed Ajmal Mohammed
Amir Kasab and stated he was a labourer from Faridkot in Pakistani
Punjab. He signed the papers, saying that he understood the charges
against him.
The charges, which run to 50 pages, were read out in court by judge M.L. Tahiliyani.
They
include waging war against India, destabilising the government, murder,
kidnap, robbery and “causing terror,” as well as smuggling illegal arms
and high explosives into the country.
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