Timeline

2008 Nov 26: Kasab and nine Pakistani gunmen launch a bloody attack on multiple locations in south Mumbai. Nov 27: At 1.30 am, Kasab is caught. Nov 30: Kasab confesses before police.

2009 April 15: Trial of 26/11 case commences. April 20: Prosecution charges Kasab on 312 counts. July 20: Kasab pleads guilty before Special Judge M.L. Tahaliyani. 2010: Feb 11: Prominent 26/11 lawyer Shahid Azmi shot dead. May 6: Kasab sentenced to death by 26/11 court. Nov 25: Kasab’s lawyer Amin Solkar says trial was unfair; demands retrial. 2011: Feb 21: Bombay High Court upholds Kasab’s death verdict. March: Kasab writes to Supreme Court challenging HC order. 2012:

Jan 31: Kasab contends in Supreme Court he was denied a free and fair trial.

June 25: Abu Jundal, an accused in 26/11 and other terror cases, deported to India from Saudi Arabia.

Aug 29: Supreme Court upholds High Court death sentence to Kasab.

Sept: Kasab, through Maharashtra government, moves a mercy plea to President.

Nov 5: President rejects Kasab’s mercy plea.

Nov 21: Kasab taken to Yerawada Central Jail, Pune, hanged and buried somewhere in the jail complex in an operation scripted by State Home Minister R.R. Patil. 2013: Jan 24: Headley sentenced to 35 years by a US Court, currently in jail. 2015: Dec 10: Mumbai Special Court pardons Headley in return for turning approver and providing full conspiracy details of 26/11 attacks. 2016: Feb 16: Headley deposes in Bombay High Court before SPP Ujjwal Nikam for the 26/11 trial by video-link from his jail cell. Evidence later submitted to Pakistan. 2018: July 8: Headley survives an alleged attack on his life in US jail, but authorities refused to comment.