India will soon send to Pakistan all documents related to 26/11 terror attacks case that were authenticated by four key witnesses during the visit of a Pakistani Judicial Commission last month.
The nearly 700-page bulky file contain documents like the confessional statement of the lone surviving perpetrator Ajmal Kasab, post mortem reports of slain terrorists and 26/11 victims prepared by two doctors and the case diary of Mumbai attack case. The documents were authenticated by Magistrate RV Sawant Waghule, who had taken down the confession of Kasab, Senior Inspector Ramesh Mahale, who had investigated the terror attacks case and by the two doctors, official sources said.
The documents, sent to the Home Ministry by Mumbai Chief Metropolitan Magistrate SS Shinde, who executed the commission’s visit to the metropolis, will be sent to Pakistan through diplomatic channel in the next few days, they said. The documents are expected to help the Rawalpindi court which is hearing the 26/11 case in Pakistan.
During the five-day visit of the 8-member Judicial Commission from Pakistan beginning March 15, Waghule told the panel that Kasab had given the confession voluntarily and told her that he and nine others had been sent by Lashkar-e-Taiba to unleash terror in Mumbai. Police Inspector Mahale, who had investigated the terror attacks case, told the commission that the role of Pakistan had surfaced during the investigations.
He also contended that oral, technical and material evidence linked the case to Pakistan, according to sources close to the proceedings. The commission visited India to record the statements on behalf of a Pakistani anti-terror court which is currently hearing the 26/11 attack case against LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six others. The statements of the Indian witnesses would be used as evidence during the trial in Pakistan.
