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- Rhys Blakely in Mumbai
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- The strange court case of the man alleged to be the sole Mumbai terrorist to be caught alive during last year’s attacks on the city took yet another bizarre turn today when he retracted his confession and claimed to be a wannabe film star.
- Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, is alleged to be the sole Mumbai terrorist to be caught alive during last year's attacks
- Even before the court proceedings began, the process was blighted by controversy when lawyers chosen to defend Mr Kasab were hounded by Hindu extremists and threatened with violence.
- Everything from Mr Kasab’s demands for meat biryani (the food in his prison is entirely vegetarian) to his literary habits (he was said to be reading Gandhi’s autobiography) have been picked apart with forensic scrutiny.
- In recent months he has complained of being ill. At one stage he produced a white powder from a screw of paper and presented it to the judge, saying that it was poison that his prison guards had tried to add to his food.
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