[5][6] Kasab, alongside fellow Lashkar-e-Taiba recruit Ismail Khan, killed 72 people during the attacks, most of them at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.

Kasab was born in Faridkot, Pakistan and left his home in 2005, engaging in petty crime and armed robbery with a friend.

In late 2007, he and his friend encountered members of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah, the political wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba, distributing pamphlets, and were persuaded to join.

[4][11] Kasab was executed by hanging on 21 November 2012 at 7:30 a.m. local time,[12] and subsequently buried within the precincts of Yerwada Central Jail in Pune.

[20] On 21 December 2007, Eid al-Adha, they were in Rawalpindi trying to buy weapons when they encountered members of Jama'at-ud-Da'wah, the political wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba, distributing pamphlets.

[31] Ajmal Kasab was among a group of 24 men[32] who received training in marine warfare at a remote camp in the mountainous areas of Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan.

After killing them in a gun battle and taking two constables' hostage[citation needed] in the Qualis, Kasab and Khan drove towards the Metro Cinema.

Kasab joked about the bullet resistant vests worn by the police and killed one constable when his mobile phone rang.

Assistant Sub-Inspector Tukaram Omble, armed only with a lathi (bamboo stick), charged the vehicle, being shot five times.

[19] Kasab told interrogators that all through the operation, the Lashkar headquarters from Karachi, Pakistan, remained in touch with the group, calling their phones through a voice-over-Internet service.

[47] Journalist Saeed Shah travelled to Kasab's village and produced national identity card numbers of his parents.

He told investigators where his team put the ship captain's body, a satellite phone and a global-positioning device, which the police found.

[28] In January 2009, Pakistan's National Security Advisor Mahmud Ali Durrani admitted to Kasab being a Pakistani citizen while speaking to the CNN-IBN news channel.

"[55] On 6 December 2008, The Hindu reported that the police officers who interrogated him did not speak his language, Urdu, and misinterpreted his caste origin "kasai", meaning butcher, to be a surname, writing it as "Kasav".

"[72][73][74] Kasab told the police that he and his associate, Ismail Khan, were the ones who shot Anti-Terror Squad chief Hemant Karkare, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and Additional Commissioner Ashok Kamte.

Nonetheless, the following confessions were recorded on video:[77] "We were told that our big brother India is so rich and we are dying of poverty and hunger.

[78] On 9 August 2012, Kasab was brought face-to-face with Abu Jundal, the handler of the Mumbai attacks, at the Arthur Road Jail where they identified each other.

[39] The Times reported on 3 December 2008 that Indian police were going to submit Kasab to a narco analysis test to definitively determine his nationality.

When one attorney, Ashok Sarogi, hinted that he would be willing to represent Kasab, Shiv Sena members protested outside his home and pelted it with stones, forcing him to retract.

[85] An eight-member commission from Pakistan, comprising defence lawyers, prosecutors and a court official was allowed to travel to India on 15 March to gather evidence for the prosecution of seven suspects linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

On 1 April 2009, senior Indian advocate Anjali Waghmare agreed to represent Kasab, despite Shiv Sena activists having protested and stoned her home.

[92] Due to the fact that the chargesheet was written in Marathi and English, Kasab requested an Urdu translation of the charge sheet.

[98] The trial concluded on 31 March 2010 and on 3 May the verdict was pronounced – Kasab was found guilty of murder, conspiracy, and of waging war against India (which also carried the death penalty).

Prasad stayed the orders of the Bombay High Court so as to follow the due process of law, and started hearing the case.

On the night of 18–19 November, a senior prison official at Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai read Kasab's death warrant to him, informing him at the same time that his petition for clemency had been rejected.

[107][108] Kasab's execution by the Maharashtra government happened barely two weeks after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his mercy petition on 5 November.

[114] Authorities in Uttar Pradesh banned all celebrations and public gatherings and placed the state on high alert in response.

"[117] In Pakistan, the general and official government response was muted, with the media treating the execution as another news item, according to The Hindu.

"[118] The Pakistani Taliban's spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan issued a statement threatening Indians with retaliation and declaring Kasab would be avenged.

"[119] While commending on the well appreciated role of two women officers in the smooth handling of the execution, Patil later responded to threats to avenge Kasab's death by stating that anybody daring to attack the soil of Maharashtra would meet the same fate.