Kasab should be hanged, says wife of Vijay Salaskar

"Kasab should be hanged," wife of Vijay Salaskar, who was killed while fighting terrorists in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, said today after a special court convicted the Pakistani terrorist for the carnage.

"I expect death sentence for (Ajmal Amir) Kasab. Nothing less," Smita Salaskar told reporters. 

Salaskar and two other senior police officers — ATS chief Hemant Karkare and additional commissioner of police Ashok Kamte — were killed by terrorists Abu Ismail and Kasab outside Cama hospital.

Congress MP Milind Deora said, "It is extremely important to hang Kasab," the lone surviving terrorist out of the 10 who sailed to Mumbai from Karachi to carry out the attacks.

The court will hear tomorrow arguments by the defence and prosecution on the quantum of sentence for 22-year-old Kasab, who was captured alive from the Girgaum-Chowpatty police barricade following an encounter after he and Ismael had killed several people at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, in and outside Cama Hospital and Metro Junction.