Supreme Court Backs Death for Kasab

The judgment said that the time given to Kasab's lawyer was "sufficient".

The court also rejected Kasab's plea that his confessional statement before the police was not voluntary.

The judgment said: "Confession was very much voluntary."

In a concurring judgment giving additional reasons for upholding Kasab's death sentence, Justice C.K. Prasad said that it was crystal clear from the oral and documentary evidence that the conspiracy for the 26/11 attack was held by Pakistanis in Pakistan and executed in Mumbai going by the devastation caused.

The court also upheld the acquittal of Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed who were accused of providing topographical inputs to Kasab and his accomplices prior to the 26/11 attacks.

The Maharashtra government had challenged the acquittal of Fahim and Sabauddin by the Bombay High Court.

The Bombay High Court had upheld Kasab's death penalty Feb 21, 2011.

Kasab was sent to the gallows by a Mumbai trial court May 6, 2010. Besides other charges, he was convicted for waging war against the nation.

An apex court had reserved the verdict on the conclusion of arguments that spread over nearly three months, starting Jan 31.

Kasab and his nine associates who had sailed from Karachi reached Mumbai after they hijacked private Indian ship M.B. Kuber and killed its navigator Amar Chand Solanki.