December 18, 2008	Thursday	Zilhaj 19, 1429

NEW DELHI, Dec 17: The All India Milli Council has supported an apparent demand of Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray to hang without trial Ajmal Kasab, the sole arrested suspect in the Mumbai terror attacks.

A Milli Council spokesman in Goa was quoted as saying that Mr Thackeray was right in his editorial in Wednesday’s edition of the Shiv Sena organ Saamna, in which he sought the hanging of the suspect, identified as Ajmal Kasab, without trial.

Iqbal Mohideen, president of the All India Mili Council (Goa), was quoted as telling reporters that Mr Kasab’s “chilling crime” should be judged through the sharia.“The AIMC supports Bal Thackeray’s demand. Even the sharia says an eye for an eye, a limb for a limb and life for life,” Mr Mohideen said.

Condemning the Goa police for storming a madressa in Vasco on Tuesday and the handling of the 60-odd minor female students studying there, Mr Mohideen accused the police of terrorising Muslims.

“Show me one instance where Muslim women have participated in a terror act? And here the police are accusing the management of the all-girl madressa of breeding terrorists,” an Indian news agency quoted him as saying.

“We are Indians first and Muslims next. Why are we forced to make a public display of our patriotism time and again?” he wondered.