Terrorists Planned to Attack Malabar Hill, Says Kasab
Making yet another surprising revelation, the captured Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab has confessed that he and his associate Abu Ismail were planning to attack the posh Malabar Hill area of south Mumbai on Nov 26 last year.
Shortly after the second day’s trial in Mumbai terror case on Saturday, Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said that the duo was planning to proceed towards Malabar Hill after carrying out the attacks on Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus that evening.
However, while fleeing in a hijacked car that night they were stopped at a police road block near Chowpatty beach. Ismail was killed in the shootout with security forces, Kasab was nabbed. According to Nikam, the details of the sites to be attacked at Malabar Hill were known to Ismail.
It should be mentioned that Malabar Hill, located in south Mumbai, is home to VVIPs, including Maharashtra chief minister, governor, high court judges, central and state ministers, high-ranking bureaucrats, politicians, industrialists, businessmen, head honchos of multinationals, scientists, diplomats, religious heads, leading academicians and expats.
