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Mumbai, March 15 (IANS) The final arguments in the trial of Pakistani terror accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Kasab, and two of his associates are likely to be completed this week.
Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam and defence counsel K.P. Pawar informed Special Judge M.L. Tahaliyani that they hoped to complete their respective arguments by the weekend.

“I informed the court that I would need another two days to complete the final arguments,” Nikam, who argued for the fifth day Monday, later told IANS.

Thereafter, defence lawyer Pawar representing Kasab also said that he would take another day or so to reply to the arguments and the same was the response of the defence lawyers for the other two co-accused Sabauddin Ahmed and Faheem Ansari.

To this Special Judge Tahaliyani said that if the final arguments could be concluded by March 20, then he would post the case for delivering the judgement.

“We expect that the verdict will be delivered in April,” Nikam said.

This would bring the curtains down on one of the most high-profile trials in the country’s legal history, involving the sole survivor of the Nov 26-29, 2008, Mumbai terror attack, Kasab.

He and his nine associates created mayhem lasting for 60 hours during which they killed 166 people and wounded nearly 300 others in one of the worst terror attacks in the country.