March 16, 2012 9:40 AM

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26/11: Pak judicial commission to record witness statements

Pakistan Judicial Commission, which arrived in Mumbai on Thursday, will record the statements of witnesses in connection with 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case today and on Saturday.

The four witnesses have already been issued summons by the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of the Esplanade court in south Mumbai, asking them to appear in court to record their statements.

The witnesses include Chief Metropolitan Magistrate R V Sawant Waghule who had recorded Kasab's confession, Chief Investigating Officer in the case, Ramesh Mahale, two doctors involved in carrying out the autopsy of the nine killed terrorists in the 2008 attack including Medical Officer of forensic department of JJ Hospital, Ganesh Nitukar and Shailesh Mohit of civic-run Nair hospital.

Special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam who represented Maharashtra government in the trial against Kasab, has been appointed to assist the Commission which will examine these witnesses at the Esplanade court in Mumbai.

The statements of the witnesses will be used as evidence before an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan, which is conducting trial against Lashkar-e-Toiba's Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects.

The eight-member Judicial Commission comprises defence lawyers, Khwaja Haris, Riyaz Akram Choudhary, Fakhar Haayat, Raja Ehassan Ulhakhan and Isaam Bin Haris, special public prosecutors Choudhary Mohammed Azhar and Choudhary Zulfikar Ali and court official Azad Khan.

The November 26, 2008 terror strike in Mumbai left over 160 people dead and several others injured.

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