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Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Other Islamic authority or family context Mumbai, India · 2012

Mumbai attacks: Supreme Court upholds Kasab's convictions and documents Lashkar-e-Taiba jihad training

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Lashkar-e-Taiba leadership, religious and military instructors, cross-border operational commanders

Organization

Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jamaat-ud-Dawa

Spiritual nexus

The Supreme Court judgment documents Kasab's induction into Lashkar-e-Taiba through Jamaat-ud-Dawa, religious instruction and repeated lectures on jihad, followed by military and operational training. Leaders told recruits that war against India was required for Kashmir and promised paradise to those who died. The court found that Kasab joined the ten-person team and carried out the attacks in furtherance of the conspiracy.

  • Institutional obedience or isolation
  • Threatened spiritual consequence
  • Other spiritual authority or belief

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2010-05-06 · criminal trial and sentence

    Special Court, Greater Bombay, India. The trial court convicted Ajmal Kasab of offenses arising from the coordinated attacks and imposed death sentences on five counts.

  2. 2011-02-21 · appeal and death-sentence confirmation

    Bombay High Court, India. The High Court upheld Kasab's convictions and confirmed the death sentences while leaving the other two tried defendants' acquittals undisturbed.

  3. 2012-08-29 · final criminal appeal

    Supreme Court of India. The Supreme Court independently reviewed the record, affirmed Kasab's convictions and sentences and affirmed the acquittals of the two co-defendants tried with him.

Appellate history

  1. Date in cited record · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

  • jihad lectures
  • sectarian conversion within the training system
  • martyrdom and paradise promise
  • military training
  • remote operational command

Primary record

Sources

official final appellate judgment conviction and spiritual nexus Supreme Court of India, Mohd. Ajmal Mohammad Amir Kasab v. State of Maharashtra, Criminal Appeal Nos. 1899-1900 of 2011 (Aug. 29, 2012).

The official 398-page judgment independently reviews the attack, evidence, confession safeguards, Lashkar-e-Taiba induction, jihad and hadith instruction, martyrdom promise, training, remote control, convictions, sentences and the affirmed acquittals of two co-defendants.

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