You reap what you sow, says Kasab in jail

Mumbai, Nov 23 (PTI) "You reap what you sow."
This was how Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab responded
on Tuesday when BJP leader Eknath Khadse asked the death row
convict in the Mumbai terror attack how he was feeling at the
Arthur Road Jail here.
Khadse, the Leader of Opposition in state Assembly, posed
the question to 22-year-old Kasab while accompanying
Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil on a visit to the high
security prison.
"The Leader of Opposition asked him (Kasab) how was he
feeling. He replied that 'jaisa boya, waisa kata (you reap
what you sow)," Patil told reporters later.
"More than this, I also did not want to speak (to
Kasab)," Patil 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 during a 60-hour siege of the country's
financial capital.
Patil said he found the jail overcrowded. "It has a
capacity of 781 inmates but in reality, around 2,000 prisoners
are lodged here," he said.
The staff strength at the jail is also less than
one-third of the sanctioned strength, the minister said.
"We will shift some of them to the new Taloja jail which
has come up in adjoining Raigad district," he said.
The state government would also come up with a policy on
jail security in view of the towers that have come up in the
vicinity of the jail, he added. PTI VT
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