Mumbai:
On the concluding day of its visit, the Pakistani Judicial Commission cross examined four witnesses of the 26/11 attacks at Mumbai's Esplanade court today.
The Commission was in Mumbai to cross examine witnesses to move forward in their prosecution of seven Lashkar-e-Taiba suspects, including Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi held in Pakistan for their role in the attacks.
The eight-member commission included defence counsels, public prosecutors and officers of the anti-terror court in Rawalpindi.
The witnesses who deposed before the panel were the doctors who conducted the autopsy of the terrorists killed that night. Ajmal Kasab was the only surviving terrorist arrested for the attack.
The Investigating Officer of the 26/11 case in India, Ramesh Mahale and Magistrate RV Sawant who recorded Kasab's confession also deposed.
The Pakistani panel objected to Advocate Ujwal Nikams's presence during the process, saying he was not required.
The Judge overruled the objection, saying Mr Nikam represented the prosecution case against Kasab and his accomplices in India.
The team, say sources, also inspected the mobile phones, Global Positioning System instruments, bits of ammunition and the dinghy used by the 10 Pakistani terrorists to reach India by sea.
Kasab and his accomplices had come by a boat from Karachi and on approaching the Mumbai coast, used the dinghy to reach the shores.
The Indian government has claimed that the articles were purchased by the terrorists in Pakistan.
This is the second visit of the Commission. During its first visit in March 2013, the panel had examined the same four witnesses. However, India did not allow the cross examination of the witnesses then.
After a Pakistan court refused to accept the evidence of the commission, the indian government allowed their cross examination.
Ten Pakistani terrorists had landed in Mumbai on November 26, 2008, and opened fire indiscriminately in public places killing 166 people and injuring over 300 others besides damaging property worth crores of rupees.
Kasab was hanged in November last year in a Pune prison.
The Commission was in Mumbai to cross examine witnesses to move forward in their prosecution of seven Lashkar-e-Taiba suspects, including Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi held in Pakistan for their role in the attacks.
The eight-member commission included defence counsels, public prosecutors and officers of the anti-terror court in Rawalpindi.
The witnesses who deposed before the panel were the doctors who conducted the autopsy of the terrorists killed that night. Ajmal Kasab was the only surviving terrorist arrested for the attack.
The Investigating Officer of the 26/11 case in India, Ramesh Mahale and Magistrate RV Sawant who recorded Kasab's confession also deposed.
The Pakistani panel objected to Advocate Ujwal Nikams's presence during the process, saying he was not required.
The Judge overruled the objection, saying Mr Nikam represented the prosecution case against Kasab and his accomplices in India.
The team, say sources, also inspected the mobile phones, Global Positioning System instruments, bits of ammunition and the dinghy used by the 10 Pakistani terrorists to reach India by sea.
Kasab and his accomplices had come by a boat from Karachi and on approaching the Mumbai coast, used the dinghy to reach the shores.
The Indian government has claimed that the articles were purchased by the terrorists in Pakistan.
This is the second visit of the Commission. During its first visit in March 2013, the panel had examined the same four witnesses. However, India did not allow the cross examination of the witnesses then.
After a Pakistan court refused to accept the evidence of the commission, the indian government allowed their cross examination.
Ten Pakistani terrorists had landed in Mumbai on November 26, 2008, and opened fire indiscriminately in public places killing 166 people and injuring over 300 others besides damaging property worth crores of rupees.
Kasab was hanged in November last year in a Pune prison.
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