As Mumbai commemorates the seventh anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, Sebastian D’Souza, the senior photojournalist whose stunning pictures of Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab formed crucial visual evidence in the 26/11 trial, is still waiting for a house in Mumbai that Maharashtra government had promised him after his testimony in court sealed the fate of Kasab.
A veteran photojournalist whose images of Mumbai and Gujarat riots became the face of the tragedies, Mr. D’Souza had lived in rented houses through his career and was allotted a flat in Thane by the then Chief Minister Ashok Chavan in July 2010. However, Mr. D’Souza, could never occupy the 555-sq.ft flat because of a legal dispute.
“The builder said he would not be able to sign an agreement for the flat due to a long pending legal dispute with the land owner in the Bombay High Court,” says Mr. D’Souza, who retired as a photo editor in 2012 and is recovering from a bypass surgery five months ago.
