Believe this: Mumbai top cop 'took' Kasab to mosque to see namaz

Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria had asked an officer to take 26/11 attacker Ajmal Amir Kasab to be taken to a mosque – not to pray but to show the ‘jihadist’ fighter that there was no ban on Namaz or mosques in India.

Ajmal Kasab had mercilessly sprayed bullets after he landed up via sea in Mumbai and killed many people. Ajmal Kasab was told by his handlers, as part of his indoctrination, that the government had banned namaz in the country.

He was trained by the Lashkar-e-Taiba and led to believe that Muslims were leading a life of suppression in India without the freedom to enjoy their rights. For a fact, Ajmal Kasab did not know anything about Islam as a religion, or how it was practised in general.

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Rakesh Maria, who was investigating the Mumbai terror attacks, came to know that Kasab had such a misconception in his mind, he instructed Ramesh Mahale, an investigating officer, to take him to a mosque near a cinema theatre and show him what the truth was.

Kasab was suitably ‘bewildered,’ as per Rakesh Maria’s new book ‘Let Me Say It Now,’
when he witnessed a namaaz in progress. He had been stunned that Muslims were going about their lives normally without any hindrance to the freedom they had supposedly been ‘robbed of.’

However, contrary to this unexpected display of emotion, public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam referred to Kasab as ‘exceptionally depraved and a killing machine bereft of human nature.’