Mumbai: Anjali Waghmare has agreed to defend Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case after being assured Z-category security by the government.
Waghmare on Wednesday conveyed her decision to the special court to continue as Kasab's lawyer.
"I shall continue with the case. There are no problems," Waghmare told the court.
Addressing the media outside the court she said, "Please not take me negative. I never anticipated the attack on me. After that I got the Z-security. I am doing everything on my own risk but my life is under threat."
She said she was mentally prepared to defend Kasab a day after she said that she wanted some more time to review her decision after violent protests by Shiv Sainiks outside her house on Monday night.
Meanwhile, Kasab's second advocate KP Pawar will also seek police protection.
Waghmare was chosen by the court from the state Legal Aid Cell to represent Kasab.
She is the wife of Mumbai Police Assistant Police Commissioner Ramesh Waghmare and lives in the same residential complex that lost police officers Shashank Shinde and Tukaram Ombale.
Ombale was killed while capturing Kasab alive.
Waghmare was chosen as she is senior-most member of Maharashtra's Legal Aid Cell.
The 40-year old was educated in Pune, but shifted based to Mumbai after she married Ramesh Waghmare.
Waghmare practices in the Sessions and High Court. She is also representing some of the accused in Telgi stamp scam case and Karimullah, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai blast case.
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