As many as 203 people filed mercy petition for 26/11 terrorist identified as Ajmal Kasab. In this list, some names took everyone by a shock as Harsh Mandar also filed a petition for Ajmal Kasab and he is regarded as the right hand of Sonia Gandhi and he was also NAC (National Advisory Council) member.
Sonia Gandhi worked as its Chairperson in the respective tenure of the UPA. Aruna Roy, who was a NAC member back then, had also signed the petition. Here is the complete list of people who signed the mercy petition :
| Name | Profession |
| Yug Mohit Chaudhry | Lawyer |
| Abdul Wahab Khan | Lawyer |
| Vrinda Grover | Lawyer |
| Meenal Baghel | Editor, Mumbai Mirror |
| Anish Grewal | Entrepreneur |
| Harsh Mander | Social Activist, NAC Member |
| Aakar Patel | Journalist |
| Reena George | Ph.D. Student |
| Harish Dhawan | Associate Prof. in Eco, Univ. of Delhi |
| Swastayan Roy | Journalist |
| Mukul Mahant | Social Activist |
| V. Venkatesan | Journalist |
| S. Thambisetty | Professor, LSE |
| Anusha Rizvi | Independent Filmaker |
| Bhaskar Hazarika | |
| Shivam Vij | Journalist |
| K. P. Shankaran | Lecturer (Retd) in Philosophy |
| Byatha N. Jagadeesh | Lawyer |
| Mayank Misra | Lawyer |
| Babu Mathew | Professor of Law |
| Surabhi Chopra | Law Professor. |
| Suroor Mander | Advocate |
| Anuj Bhagwati | Entrepreneur |
| Kiran Bhatty | Independent Researcher |
| Mahmood Farooqui | Historian, Artist, Filmmaker. |
| Jyoti Punwani | Journalist |
| Colin Gonsalves | Senior Advocate, Supreme Court. |
| Pritam Bhatty | Artist |
| Vijay Raghavan | Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
| Abbas Kazmi | Lawyer |
| Aditi Khanna | |
| Andaleeb Alam | Social Worker |
| Dr. Madhav Thambisetty | Professor of Medicine |
| Prof Rupin Desai | Professor of English (retd) |
| Biraj Patnaik | |
| Sameer Sain | Entrepreneur |
| Ved Kumari | Professor of Law |
| Peoples’ Union for Democratic Rights | |
| Shankar Raman | Cinematographer |
| Gautam Babbar | United Nations |
| Nandita Das | Actress |
| Gaurav Sinha | Lawyer |
| Maharukh Adenwalla | Lawyer |
| Gulnar Bandukwalla Pruisken | Entrepreneur |
| Kalyani Menon Sen | Feminist Learning Partnerships |
| Vijay Hiremath | Lawyer |
| Kamla Bhasin | Social Scientist |
| Devaki Jain | Development Economist and Writer |
| Saumya Uma | Consultant on Gender, Law and Human Rights |
| Kamayani Bali Mahabal | |
| Urvija Priyadarshini | Ph.D. Student |
| Kanamma Raman | |
| Priyanka Vegad | Lawyer |
| Parul Gupta | Language Teacher |
| Shruti Gupta | Telecom Professional |
| Kiran Shaheen | |
| Harsh Bora | Lawyer |
| Kalpana Kannabiran | |
| Anju Talukdar | |
| Rahul Roy | |
| Rebecca Mammen John | Lawyer |
| Rana Behal | |
| Navsharan Singh | |
| Binoo John | |
| Sankar Sen | IPS, Retd Director, National Police Academy; DG (Investigations, NHRC) |
| Chetan Mali | Lawyer |
| Dr. Walter Fernandes | North Eastern Social Research Centre |
| Manohar Elavarthi | Praja Rajakiya Vedike, Bangalore |
| Geeta Thatra | Research Fellow, Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
| Jayasree Subramanian | Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
| Susan Abraham | Lawyer |
| Veena Gowda | Lawyer |
| Flavia Agnes | Lawyer |
| Gautam Patel | Lawyer |
| Dale Luis Menezes | |
| Rafiul Alom Rahman | Student |
| N. Jayaram | Journalist |
| Richa Minocha | Member Secretary, Jan Abhiyan Sanstha, Himachal Pradesh |
| Paari Vendan | Lawyer |
| Jeny Antony | |
| Namita Kohli | Student |
| Rimple Mehta | JU-SYLFF Doctoral Fellow, Jadavpur University |
| Brinda Bose | |
| Javed Iqbal | Journalist |
| S. Anand | Publisher, Navayana |
| Jinee Lokaneeta | Associate Professor, Political Science |
| Anu Salelkar | |
| Sneha Krishnan | |
| Dr. Akhil Katyal | Assistant Professor Delhi University |
| Shreela Manohar | Researcher and Activist |
| Dr Sandeep Bakshi | Postdoctoral Fellow, English. |
| Madhumita Dutta | |
| Nisha Biswas | |
| Ashok Agarwaal | |
| Shalini Gera | |
| Jamal Kidwai | |
| Anjali Dave | Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
| Laxmi Murthy | |
| Harsh Kapoor | |
| Bondita Acharya | |
| Madhu Sarin | Psychoanalyst |
| Dilip Simeon | |
| Rashmi Gera | |
| Joe Athialy | |
| Lalita Ramdas | |
| Abha Bhaiya | |
| Malani S | |
| Manisha Sethi | Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association |
| Deepti | Saheli |
| Tarun Bhartiya | |
| Anuradha Chenoy | |
| Kamal Mitra Chenoy | |
| Aseem Shrivastava | |
| Sagari R Ramdas | |
| Madhoo | |
| Kunjam Pandu Dora | |
| Akshay Pathak | |
| Jagmohan Singh | |
| Dunu Roy | |
| Rituparna Borah | |
| Mansoor Nazeer | |
| Bharti Ali | |
| Sumi Krishna | |
| Dr Ambrose Pinto SJ | Administrator, St Joseph’s Evening Colleges, Bangalore |
| Padmini Mirchandani | Publisher |
| Neha Mujumdar | |
| Valmiki Naik | |
| Naresh Fernandes | Writer |
| Sanchia de Souza | |
| Sonal Shah | Editor |
| Ruth Sequeira | |
| Namisha Gupta | |
| Radha Thomas | |
| Nikhil Kumar | |
| suchi pande | |
| Ruchi Gupta | |
| Srila Roy | |
| Purnima Gupta | |
| A. K. Jayasree | |
| Swarnlata Mahilkar | |
| Apoorva Kaivar | |
| Beena Choksi | |
| Nachiket Udupa | |
| Dilip D’Souza | Journalist |
| Forum Against Opression of Women, Mumbai | |
| Anita Cherian | Asst. Prof, Eng. Dept, Indraprastha |
| Simin Lakhani | |
| Meghna Vesvikar | |
| Saumya Bahuguna | Social Worker |
| Shakil Ahmad | Lawyer |
| Dr. Prashant Kidambi | Lecturer in History, Univ. of Leicester. |
| Balaji Narasimhan | |
| Jacob Matthan | |
| Tara Chambers | |
| Amrita Shodhan | School of African and Asian Studies, UK |
| Kavita Punjabi | Prof. of Comparative Literature, Jadhavpur University. |
| Babloo Loitongbam | |
| Sujato Bhadra | |
| Surya Shankar Dash | |
| Gopal Krishna | Member, Citizens Forum for Civil Liberties (CFCL) |
| Mahasveta Devi | Writer |
| Padma Deosthali | |
| Amitabha Pande | |
| Richa Berry | |
| Aruna Roy | |
| Nikhil Dey | |
| Shankar Singh | |
| Achin Vanaik | |
| Zubin Bharucha | Cricket Coach |
| Siddhartha Sharma | LL.M student, Berkeley |
| Mary Scaria | Lawyer |
| Sashwati Mishra | |
| Amin Solkar | Lawyer |
| Naima Shaikh | Lawyer |
| Samira Sheikh | |
| Neeraj Malilk | |
| Nikita Agarwal | |
| Kritika Agarwal | |
| Kasim Sait | |
| Sukla Sen | |
| Kareem Sait | |
| Amba Kak | |
| Nandini Dey | |
| Ajaya Kumar Singh | |
| Ashish Kothari | |
| Vivek Sundara | |
| Sabeena Gadihoke | |
| HAQ: Centre for Child Rights | |
| Amrita Nandy | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| Rakhee Joshi | Consultant, Social Research |
| Puneet Kohli | |
| Gana Kurinji Shanmugasundaram | Vice-president, PUCL, (Tamil Nadu & Puduchery) |
| Neha Choksi | |
| Amita Chatterjee | |
| Jashodhara Dasgupta | |
| Gabriele Dietrich | |
| Gayatri Menon | |
| Bhairavi Sanghi | Designer |
| Siddharth Narrain | Alternative Law Forum |
| Murtaza Danish Husaini | Actor and Dramatist. |
| Aamir Bashir | Actor and Director |
Source: Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena
Sonia Gandhi’s NAC members made an attempt to save Ajmal Kasab.
Congress-NCP government of Maharashtra assigned a task to the Lawyers namely ‘Amin Solkar’ and ‘Farhana Shah’ to protect, Ajmal Kasab and Sonia Gandhi’s NAC members attempted to save 26/11 Mumbai Terror attack killer ‘Ajmal Kasab’. People like Aruna Roy, Harsh Mander, Vrinda Grover and 203 others sought mercy for the infamous 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab.