Both the central and Maharashtra governments have spent around Rs 29.5 crores on Ajmal Kasab to provide him food, security, medicines and clothes during his confinement in Arthur Road Central prison in Mumbai, official sources said today.       

Indo-Tibetan Border Police deployed around 250 guards for Kasab in the prison since his arrest in November2008 till October 2012 and expenditure on this count worked out to Rs 26 crore, sources said.       

Maharashtra government spent around Rs 3.47 crore on Kasab including food (Rs 42,313), security (Rs 1,46,81,794), medicines (Rs 39,829) and clothes (Rs 1,878).       

The state government also incurred an expenditure of Rs 2 crore on building a bullet and bomb proof cell for Kasab in the Central Prison at Arthur Road.