New Delhi:
Bombay High Court has given its consent to a Pakistani judicial commission to interview key persons linked to the probe of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. The High Court has informed the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) that the in-principle approval for the visit of the Pakistani judicial commission has been given and the team may come in first week of February.
The MHA will soon convey the High Court's approval for the visit to Pakistan through diplomatic channels, official sources said.
However, it is not clear when the delegation's visit will actually take place considering the domestic situation in Pakistan.
The commission will take the statements of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate R V Sawant Waghule and Investigating Officer Ramesh Mahale, who have recorded the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist involved in the 26/11 attacks. This would help the commission pursue the case in at home.
It also wanted to take the statements of the two doctors who carried out the post mortem of the terrorists killed during the attack.
Pakistan has already issued a gazette notification on the formation of the judicial commission and has listed the members who will represent Pakistan government.
The delegation will include Khalid Qureshi, the head of the Federal Investigation Agency's Special Investigation Group along with Muhammad Azhar Chaudhry and Chaudhry Zulifqar, the two main prosecutors.