Joint secretary, MEA, Manpreet Vohra who appeared as a witness, submitted a copy of relevant documents which were part of the dossier given by Pakistan to India.
The Pakistan government has admitted to India that the passport obtained by 26/11 accused Fahim Ansari in a fake name was genuine but issued on the strength of bogus documents given by him.
"Fahim's fake passport was revealed by Pakistan in a dossier given to me by their director general (South Asia) in foreign ministry on July 11", joint secretary, MEA, Manpreet Vohra told judge ML Tahliani at the anti-terror court here.
Vohra was then posted in Islamabad as India's deputy high commissioner. The MEA official, who appeared as witness, submitted a copy of relevant documents which were part of the dossier given by Pakistan to India.
On May 28, when he (Vohra) was posted in Pakistan, Indian ministry of external affairs had handed over a dossier to the Pakistan High Commission regarding probe into the 26/11 terror attacks, the witness told Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.
On July 11, he was called by Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik in his office, Vohra said adding he had met the minister who briefed him about the 26/11 probe in that country and informed that Pakistan foreign ministry would give him a dossier in response to the set of documents sent by India.
On the same day, Vohra said, the director general of Pakistan's foreign ministry had handed over two dossiers to him which contained substantial information including details of the passport obtained by Fahim Ansari in the fake name of Arshad Ansari alias Ahmed Hasan.
One dossier pertained to an accused who could not be traced in Pakistan and those who were in custody in Pakistan while the other contained information on Ansari's passport, Vohra told the public prosecutor.
Vohra said he immediately transmitted the dossiers given by Pakistan to India's ministry of External Affairs. He said he was posted as India's deputy high commissioner in Pakistan between 2007 and 2009 and had returned in August this year after completing his assignment.
To a question by defence lawyer Shahid Azmi, Vohra said after the receipt of dossiers from Pakistan on July 11 he was not aware about any further update on the exchange of information between the two countries on 26/11 probe.
According to the prosecution, a Pakistani passport was seized from Ansari at the time of his arrest in January 2008 in Lucknow. The details of this passport was sent to Pakistan to determine whether it was genuine.
Vohra's deposition was to confirm this development, Nikam said. Ansari is charged with drawing maps of certain targets in Mumbai and giving them to co-accused Sabauddin Ahmed, who in turn had allegedly passed them on to Lashkar-e-Taiba to carry out the attacks. Along with Ansari and Sabauddin, the another accused facing trial is Pakistan gunman Ajmal Kasab.
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