Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving terrorist from the 26/11 terror attack, was hanged to death at the Yerawada Jail in Pune this morning, Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil today said.
Kasab was hanged at 7.30 am, he said here.
25-year-old Kasab had been lodged in the Arthur Jail Road here ever since he was arrested immediately after the attack in 2008.
So secret was the operation that even top police officers in Mumbai did not know of it, sources said. The Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist was shifted from Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail to Pune’s Yerwada Jail this Monday. Yerwada Jail is one of the two jails in Maharashtra where prisoners on death row are hanged.
[Source: Press Trust of India]
