New Delhi, Nov.29 (ANI): India has reportedly nominated a judicial commission to work with the Pakistan Government in investigating the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai.
Islamabad has nominated M Azhar Chaudhry as special prosecutor for the Mumbai terror case.He will head a three-member team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). The team will leave shortly for India accompanied by defence counsels of the men nominated in the Mumbai assault case in Pakistan, the Express Tribune quoted unnamed interior ministry sources, as saying.
The FIA will submit a letter by the Indian Government before Justice Shahid Rafique, judge of an anti-terrorism court hearing the case in Rawalpindi, on Tuesday.
In compliance with the anti-terrorism court's order, a judicial officer at Mumbai will be nominated to record statements of prosecution witnesses or those imprisoned in India , states the letter issued by the Indian home affairs ministry and forwarded to the FIA through Pakistan's High Commission in India.
Ajmal Kasab, the lone gunman caught alive after the attack, is imprisoned in a high-security cell in Mumbai.
The judicial commission is expected to take statements from the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate R V Sawant Waghule and Investigating Officer Ramesh Mahale, who recorded Kasab's confessional statement. It is also likely to record the statement of the doctor who carried out the post-mortem of the terrorists killed during the siege, sources revealed.
India has been asking Pakistan to act "decisively" after providing it with evidence against perpetrators of the attack (ANI)
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