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You reap what you sow, says Kasab in jail
Tribune News Service & PTI

Mumbai, November 23
“You reap what you sow.” This was how Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab responded today when BJP leader Eknath Khadse asked the death row convict in the Mumbai terror attack case how he was feeling at the Arthur Road Jail here.

Khadse, the Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, posed the question to 22-year-old Kasab while accompanying Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on a visit to the high security prison.

The duo were on a visit to review the security set-up at the jail. “The Leader of Opposition asked him (Kasab) how was he feeling. “He replied that jaisa boya, waisa kata (you reap what you sow),” Patil said while talking to reporters later.

Aware of the controversy their meeting could generate, Patil insisted that he did not speak to Kasab himself. Shortly after the terror attacks, Patil had to quit as Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister for his comments in the media. “In big cities such little things keep happening,” Patil had then said.

The Bombay High Court is currently hearing confirmation of death sentence to Kasab, who has also filed an appeal against the capital punishment.

Kasab is the lone-surviving gunman after 10 terrorists from Pakistan sneaked into Mumbai on November 26, 2008, and killed 166 people.