Mumbai: 26/11 terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab has decided to appeal against his death sentence in the Supreme Court.
Reports claim Kasab met his lawyer Farhana Shah on Wednesday and then decided to pursue his appeal all the way to India's top court.
Just two days ago, the Bombay High Court had upheld Kasab's death sentence observing that he was 'a threat to society' and had committed murders of innocents in 'an extremely brutal, grotesque, diabolical, revolting or dastardly manner'.
In their detailed, well-reasoned judgement running into 1,215-pages upholding the verdict of Special Judge M. L. Tahaliyani, Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice R.V. More said: "This is, indeed, a rarest of rare cases involving uncommon and unprecedented crime for which sentence of life imprisonment is inadequate. We feel that we would never be as confident as we are today in confirming the death sentence. We are of the opinion that the death sentence must be confirmed."
The bench noted that all the murders, displaying extreme 'brutality and cruelty' were committed after previous planning.
"The crime is enormous in proportion. The magnitude of the attack is indicative of the pre-planning. The attack unleashed such a wave of terror that several victims were not even ready to come forward and depose in the court," the judges noted with concern.
They said that Kasab never showed any remorse or repentance for what he had done, but loudly proclaimed that he wanted to be a role model for others, as was evident from his confessional statement on November 27, 2008, before a woman magistrate.
A total of 166 people were killed in the mayhem let loose by Kasab and nine other Pakistani gunmen during the 60-hour Mumbai terror attack.