RAWALPINDI: Prosecutors Saturday submitted documentary evidence
provided by India, including confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab, in
the anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of LeT’s Zakiur Rehman
Lakhvi and six others charged with involvement in Mumbai attacks, as a
new judge began hearing the case.
Prosecutors from the Federal
Investigation Agency (FIA) presented three files containing the autopsy
reports of those killed in the attacks, medico-legal reports of the
injured and lone surviving Mumbai attacker Kasab’s confessional
statement in English, Hindi and Marathi, sources told PTI.
The evidence was presented to the court by the FIA following an application from the defence lawyers.
Copies of all the evidence will be provided to the accused and the defence lawyers, the sources said.
Today’s
in-camera proceedings at the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi were conducted
by Shahid Rafique, who was appointed the new judge for hearing the
Mumbai attacks case. He is the fifth judge to hear the case since
proceedings began in early 2009.
After the evidence was presented in court by the prosecutors, Judge Rafique adjourned the case till July 23.
Lakhvi’s
counsel Khwaja Sultan told PTI after the hearing that the defence
lawyers had requested the court to provide the autopsy and medico-legal
reports of those killed and injured in the Mumbai attacks after the
prosecution presented a new list of witnesses, including Indian doctors
and policemen.
The seven suspects, including LeT members, have
been accused of planning, facilitating and financing the November 2008
attacks in India’s financial hub that killed 166 people. Online
