At Least 7 Terrorist Strikes in Mumbai - Page 2

sanju123 · #11 (**permalink**) 12-02-2008, 04:44 AM

There are no words to express the grimness of tragedy that occurred in Mumbai. Whosoever were the attackers-they committed the most heinous of the crimes. Killing innocent people-what could be worst than this. People are really heart nobody will be ever able to forget it.

Jeff · #12 (**permalink**) 04-15-2009, 12:31 PM

The court just fired the accused's lawyer as the trial was beginning:

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The trial of the only Pakistani Islamist militant suspect captured during November's Mumbai attacks in India opened in disarray Wednesday with the judge sacking the defence lawyer.

Moments after the high-profile trial kicked off, the packed courtroom was told there could be a conflict of interest as Anjali Waghmare, the lawyer defending Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, had links to a potential prosecution witness.

AFP: Mumbai attacks trial in disarray as lawyer sacked

I would have thought that the issue would arise a bit earlier than that. This is going to delay things significantly.

I'm also surprised to read:

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Last year, the Mumbai Metropolitan Magistrate Court's Bar Association resolved not to represent him, while the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party called for Kasab to be executed without trial outside the railway station.

Quite different from the US where lawyers will fight to take a high profile case and use it to advance their careers.