Pressure mounts for swift justice in Mumbai attacks case

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MUMBAI, May 7 (AFP): Calls for swift justice mounted in India Friday after the lone surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks was sentenced to death in a trial praised as a victory for the rule of law.
Pakistani national Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab was handed the death penalty Thursday for waging war on India, mass murder, conspiracy and terrorist acts, nearly 18 months after the attacks that left 166 people dead.
But with predictions that a lengthy, possibly open-ended legal appeal is likely in the high-profile case, government officials said they would push for the execution to be carried out as soon as possible.
"We will try and get the verdict ratified by the high court as early as possible," Ashok Chavan, the chief minister of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times newspaper.