Vicky Nanjappa

The terrorists had masked their identity to look as though they were Hindus. All of them sported saffron bands and the identification found on Ajmal Kasab showed his name as ‘Samir Chaudhary’.

New Delhi, Nov 26: Fourteen years have passed and the wounds are yet to heal. On this day in the year 2008, Mumbai was hit by one of the worst terror strikes when 10 terrorists of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba stormed the city and kept its people under siege. 160 laid down their lives in one of the worst attacks that the country has witnessed.

Like many incidents, this one too was surrounded by controversy with some stating an Indian angle was never probed while another set of people trying to term it as Hindu terror.

Thank God, Ajmal Kasab was caught alive, an official tells OneIndia. The terrorists had masked their identity to look as though they were Hindus. All of them sported saffron bands and the identification found on Ajmal Kasab showed his name as Samir Chaudhary.

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