Mumbai gunman ‘ready for gallows’

THE lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai attacks has said he is ready to go to the gallows and wants no mercy from the court for his role in one of India’s worst terrorist acts, which left 166 people dead.

“Whatever I have done, I have done in this world. It would be better to be punished in this world. It would be better than God’s punishment. That’s why I pleaded guilty,” Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani, told the court.