March 15, 2012 8:50 PM

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26/11: Pak judicial commission to record witnesses statement

Pakistan judicial commission arrived in Mumbai today afternoon to record the statements of witnesses in connection with 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case.

The Pakistani Commission will record the statements of the Metropolitan Magistrate R V Sawant Waghule, who took the confessional statement of the lone surviving terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab, and also of Chief Investigating Officer Ramesh Mahale in the case.

The commission headed by special prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali came from Lahore to Delhi yesterday They will also record the evidence of the two doctors, Shailesh Mohit and Ganesh Nitukar, involved in carrying out the autopsy of the nine killed terrorists in the 2008 attack.

The team will record the statements tomorrow and the day after. Special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, who represented Maharashtra government in the trial against Kasab, has been appointed to assist the Commission which will examine the 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 November 26, 2008 terror strike in Mumbai left over 160 people dead and several others injured.

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