Mumbai: The witness Nooruddin Shaikh who was slated to be cross examined in the 26/11 trial but failed to appear, has been found by one of the police teams.
Three teams of the Mumbai crime branch were sent out to look for him. Sheikh is the only eyewitness who can prove the guilt of key accused Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmad in the 26/11 attack.
On Thursday Nooruddin Sheikh had told the court that he was a friend of Fahim Ansari and had bumped into him and Sabahuddin Ahmad in Kathmandu in January 2008.
PTI adds: Witness Nuruddin Shaikh had gone with his mother to a friend's house and slept over there as he was not feeling well, Joint Commissioner of Police Rakesh Maria told PTI.
After he failed to turn up in the court on Friday, crime branch officials went to his house in suburban Goregaon to fetch him but they were told by his wife that he had left early morning, saying that he was going to the court, he said.
Crime Branch had formed three teams to locate him and was successful in tracing him, Maria said.
Shaikh's cross examination was to be conducted yesterday but the judge adjourned the matter.
The witness told the court yesterday that Fahim and Sabauddin had met him in Nepal and in his presence they had discussed about the maps of some locations in Mumbai, which later turned out to be targets of the 26/11 attacks.