Waghmare seeks a day to decide over representing Kasab

MUMBAI: Anjali Waghmare, the lawyer appointed to represent lone terrorist arrested in 26/11 attack Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, today told the special court that she needed a day to consider whether she would appear in the case following protests at her residence on Monday.

"I am under a lot of pressure. Give me one day to decide and think over it," an emotional Waghmare told special judge M L Tahiliyani.

"The media has exaggerated and is saying that I have taken the case up voluntarily. There were more than 300 persons outside my house yesterday," she told the court.

Asking the media to give the correct message to the public, Waghmare said the mob outside her house had questioned how she could represent Kasab despite being a police official's wife.

Waghmare, an advocate from the Maharashtra legal aid, was appointed by the court yesterday to represent Kasab in the upcoming trial of the terrorist on April 6.

"Why has not media gone to Uddhav Thackeray over the attack? Who is the mob to decide whether the trial will go on or not?" Waghmare said.