MUMBAI: On Monday, the fastest verdict on any terror trial in India ended in Kasab's conviction, the acquittals of Faheem Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed, and egg on the police's face. The acquittals, particularly, were significant: If they exposed the inability of the Mumbai cops to produce a watertight case even in a trial of this magnitude, they also spoke of the independent-mindedness of the Indian judiciary, which weighed the evidence and pronounced what is being seen as a carefully-considered judgment.
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Ansari and Ahmed were alleged to have been the local connection in a plot hatched in and executed out of Pakistan. |