Mumbai police to use truth serum on 'baby-faced' terrorist Azam Amir Kasab

[Turborama]

Source: Times Online

Indian police interrogators are preparing to administer a "truth serum" on the sole Islamic militant captured during last week's terror attacks on Mumbai to settle once and for all the question of where he is from.

The mystery of the man dubbed "the baby-faced gunman" has weighed heavily on India's relations with Pakistan as the nuclear-armed neighbours dispute each other's accounts of his origin.

Police interrogators in Mumbai told The Times that they have "verified" that Azam Amir Kasab, who was captured after a shoot-out in a Mumbai railway station on Wednesday night, is from Faridkot, a small village in Pakistan's impoverished south Punjab region. They say that the nine dead gunmen are also Pakistani.

Disputing that account, President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan told CNN last night: "We have not been given any tangible proof to say that he is definitely a Pakistani. I very much doubt it … that he is a Pakistani."

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5280084.ece

[truthisfreedom]

1. Oh, well then it's okay. As long as they announce it. "We're going to drug this guy now."

That makes it fine. Great. I'm thrilled.

In the day, you'd just drug the guy and find out what you needed to know, but now... NOOOOO... you have to TELL EVERYBODY you're going to BREAK OUT THE NEEDLE and the SODIUM PENTATHOL and DOSE the dude, just to be politically correct.

Why not televise it, India? World-wide?

[KittyWampus]

8. in a twisted way, I wish they would televise it. Why? We've been teetering on the brink of this for

a while now.

At least they're being honest.

Actually, I wouldn't be shocked to find footage leaked of this. I am pretty sure it'll be taped.

We got to see Saddam Hussein's last few minutes.

[Bhaisahab]

14. Truth serum footage has been televised

in India before. The tapes were 'leaked' to a vernac news channel and boy was it trippy. The suspect was lying on a bed and looked stoned. A female doctor asked him questions; and a cop beside her was taking notes IIRC. How much of the truth came out? they never showed that.

But if the truth serum fails, the Indian police also specializes in pulling out nails with pliers.

Ouch.

[tekisui]

2. Who knows what they've already done to him?

They keep saying that they got all this information from him. They are using his "confessions" to point to Pakistan. If they used 'harsh interrogation' techniques, torture, he would have told them that all of the attackers were from Mars, trained on Venus.

[machI]

3. A crack team of Bush interrogators from Guantanamo Bay is on their way

The highly trained and skilled Republican investigators need a 'working vacation' from Camp X-Ray. A Government funded trip to India is just what the Doctor ordered.

[jbane]

4. I could care less about that guy

All that needs to be heard from him is how did you do it and where are the rest of the creeps.
It's an ugly business folks, they give up all rights when they do stuff like what happened in Mumbai.

[mike_c]

5. I'm sorry, but one does not "give up rights...."

Human rights are the things we agree that everyone has, simply by benefit of existing. We can deny those rights to others, but as long as they're alive, they "own" them. Extending the list of circumstances in which someone "gives up" their rights is a very dangerous thing for us all, IMO.

[jbane]

11. Act like a human, you get rights.

Act like those people that killed innocents in Mumbai and to hell with you.
If someone had information about where a bomb was that was about to kill members
of my family I would do whatever necessary to get that info and deal with the
the terrorist later. Error should be on the side of protecting innocent lives.

[bullwinkle428]

7. The Constitution called...it said "Thanks for missing the point!"

[PassingFair]

10. Are you pro-torture, too?

The real world is not like the TV series
"24" you know.

There are repercussions for torture.

[melm00se]

6. their country

their laws...

If it's legal in that country they can use the technique.

[saigon68]

9. If citizens have NO Rights

The government deserves to be overthrown

[melm00se]

12. according to the Supreme Court of India,

which balanced the use of narco-analysis with Article 20 of the Constitution of India (similar to the 5th Amendment in the USA) found that it's use, as an investigatory tool but not as a method of obtaining an incriminatory statement, found that it's use is legal. case closed.

Sources:
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1146898
http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/fullact1.asp?tfnm=00%2023

I find your response hyperbolic, inflammatory and contrary to established rights detailed in the Constitution of India and the relevant Indian Supreme Court decision (all of which, as you can see, is easily accessible via google)

[Jennicut]

13. Better to use truth serum then straight old torture

What does that stuff do, make you give up your inhibitions? better then water boarding him, etc Might actually get something more truthful. I think many lie under torture to make the torture stop.