Overview
- NSG Mumbai led a pledge and remembrance at the Gateway of India featuring a memorial zone, a wax ‘Living Memorial’, citizen pledge booths and tricolour illumination under the ‘Neverever’ theme.
- Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, senior police officials and families of the fallen paid respects at city memorials, as national leaders posted tributes and underscored a hard line on terrorism.
- The NIA sought additional information from the United States in October under the MLAT process related to Tahawwur Rana after his interrogation, signaling ongoing work to map the wider conspiracy.
- Mumbai institutions held coordinated tributes with 11 colleges and 26 schools conducting pledge-taking activities focused on vigilance, peace and national security.
- The 2008 attacks by 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives killed 166 people and injured about 300; nine attackers were killed and the lone surviving gunman, Ajmal Kasab, was executed in 2012, with survivor restitution efforts such as housing for eyewitness Devika Rotawan reported as completed earlier this year.