26/11: Custody for Kasab till Feb 13 in sailor murder case

Mumbai, Feb 2 (PTI) Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the
lone terrorist arrested for his involvement in the
terror strikes on India's financial capital Mumbai, was Monday
remanded in police custody till February 13 for murdering the
captain of a Gujarat-based fishing vessel.

Kasab, whose police custody in the Chhatrapati Shivaji
rail terminus firing case ended today, has been booked in 12
cases by the city police and is in judicial custody in five
other cases.

The terrorist, arrested on November 26, was not
produced in the court today due to security concerns and
Additional Metropolitan Magistrate N Shrimangale and
Additional Public Prosecutor E B Dhamal were taken to an
undisclosed location where he is being kept.

"It was argued that the police had to carry out
further investigations in the case for which custody was
needed," Dhamal told PTI.

When asked by the magistrate, Kasab said he had no
complaints against the police, he said.

Kasab, a resident of Faridkot in Pakistan, had no
legal representation today and did not make any request for a
lawyer during the proceedings, Dhamal said.

The ten terrorists, who were involved in the November
26 terror attacks allegedly set sail from Karachi in Pakistan
in a vessel 'Al-Husseini' after which they hijacked the
Gujarat-based fishing boat MV Kuber on November 23.

After taking four crew members of the fishing vessel
on board the Al-Husseini, Kasab and his nine associates sailed
to within a few nautical miles of Mumbai aboard the Kuber and
then killed its captain, Ajay Singh Solanki.

The fishing vessel and its deceased captain, whose throat
had been cut, were found drifting off the coast of Mumbai.

The bodies of other crew members were not found.
Also, a GPS device, satellite phone and rations alleged
to have originated from Pakistan were found onboard the Kuber
by authorities.

The shootout at Girgaum Chowpatty, ambush on a police
vehicle near Rang Bhavan auditorium which left three senior
police officials dead, a vehicle theft case at Marine Drive,
the shootout at Cama Hospital and the shootout at CST are the
five other cases in which Kasab is presently in judicial
custody.

Over 160 persons were killed and more than 300 injured
in the attacks carried out by ten terrorists at locations like
the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Hotels Taj and Trident and
Nariman House.

Nine of the ten terrorists, allegedly belonging to the
terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, were killed in the standoff
with security forces. PTI