A Pakistani who is the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks will be sentenced tomorrow, the judge in his case said yesterday amid prosecution calls for the "killing machine" to be executed.

Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab's trial in a special prison court in Mumbai heard arguments from the defence and prosecution yesterday over the appropriate penalty and the judge adjourned until tomorrow to consider his decision.

Public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam maintained his vigorous advocacy for the ultimate penalty to be imposed on Mr Kasab, convicted of murder and waging war against India on Monday - crimes punishable by hanging.

"It would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed," Mr Nikam told the court. "He is an agent of the devil himself, a disgrace to society and the entire human race."

Speaking after the adjournment, he told reporters that the former labourer and school dropout was "a killing machine and the factory for the killing machine was in Pakistan."

India believes the atrocity was plotted and executed by the Pakistan-based Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and elements in the Pakistani military and a number of suspects were convicted in absentia on Monday.

Mr Kasab took part in the bloodiest episode of the November 2008 assault which left 166 people dead and more than 300 wounded and led India to suspend peace talks with neighbouring Pakistan.