Mumbai:
The Principal of a Hyderabad college has told a special court in Mumbai that prime accused in Mumbai terror attack case Mohammed Ajmal Amir Qasab was not a student of his college and he used a fake identity card.
He was referring to an identity card found from Qasab's possession which showed that he was a student of Arunodaya Degree and P G college, Hyderabad. The card was recovered by police after Kasab's arrest on November 26 last year during the terror attacks in the metropolis.
G Radhakrishna, Principal of the College, was deposing as witness to throw light on the seven identity cards seized from Qasab by the police and his six associates who were killed in the gun battle with the security forces.
It is the prosecution's case that terrorists had carried fake Identity cards to conceal their Pakistani identity.
To a question by Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam whether he had seen Qasab in college, the Principal replied in the negative, saying "he is not a student of my institution".
The principal said he personally knew all the 600 students of his college and Qasab was not among them.
Asked about the procedure for issuing I-cards, the principal said he sign on them only after the student concerned puts signature on it in his presence. The I-card found in Qasab's possession also carried the college stamp.
Though Radhakrishna said his college's I-cards were prepared manually, the fake I-cards produced in the court were made from computers.
When the witness was shown all the seven I-cards, he said these have not been issued by his college.
The I-cards were issued in fake names of Arjun Kumar, Dinesh kumar, Arun Sharma, Raghuvir Singh, Sameer Choudhary, Naresh Varma and Rohit Patil. Qasab's identity card was issued in the name of Sameer Choudhary.
He was referring to an identity card found from Qasab's possession which showed that he was a student of Arunodaya Degree and P G college, Hyderabad. The card was recovered by police after Kasab's arrest on November 26 last year during the terror attacks in the metropolis.
G Radhakrishna, Principal of the College, was deposing as witness to throw light on the seven identity cards seized from Qasab by the police and his six associates who were killed in the gun battle with the security forces.
It is the prosecution's case that terrorists had carried fake Identity cards to conceal their Pakistani identity.
To a question by Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam whether he had seen Qasab in college, the Principal replied in the negative, saying "he is not a student of my institution".
The principal said he personally knew all the 600 students of his college and Qasab was not among them.
Asked about the procedure for issuing I-cards, the principal said he sign on them only after the student concerned puts signature on it in his presence. The I-card found in Qasab's possession also carried the college stamp.
Though Radhakrishna said his college's I-cards were prepared manually, the fake I-cards produced in the court were made from computers.
When the witness was shown all the seven I-cards, he said these have not been issued by his college.
The I-cards were issued in fake names of Arjun Kumar, Dinesh kumar, Arun Sharma, Raghuvir Singh, Sameer Choudhary, Naresh Varma and Rohit Patil. Qasab's identity card was issued in the name of Sameer Choudhary.
