Mukesh Agrawal, who survived when the Taj Hotel in Mumbai Mukesh Agrawal, who survived when the Taj Hotel in Mumbai was attacked during the 2008 carnage, said Kasab should have been hanged four years ago. "But today what has happened is very good. It is a very good gift to the victims' families. The government has given a New Year gift," he said. K Unnikrishnan, father of NSG commando K Unnikrishnan, who was killed in the Taj Hotel strike, said, "The way in which the execution has been done, it is a model way. "Before anybody could react to the rejection of the mercy petition (of Kasab), everything is over. That is the thing which I cherish." Unnikrishnan, a retired ISRO official, said, "Definitely there was a long way to go for the sense of closure...Kasab's execution is only one chapter. The perpetrators are still moving around in Pakistan and the anti-India thinking in Pakistan is too much now, it should come down." He said finally justice has been done in one case. "...The root cause is hatred that is still there and in my opinion that spoils the general calm attitude in India. I still feel many more things have to be done. We should not lose the momentum because we have hanged a culprit. That is not closure," Unnikrishnan said. PTI TKP SC SC
