After much delay and deliberation, it is now confirmed that the Pakistan judicial commission will visit Mumbai in the first week of February.
The commission will interview and question police officials involved in the investigations of the 26/11 terror attacks and the doctors involved in the medical procedure conducted on the nine terrorists killed.
According to the Mumbai police, the commission will not be given access to arrested terrorist Ajmal Kasab. “There is no chance they will get to speak to Kasab,” said a senior crime branch officer.
“We do not know the exact schedule but they will record the statements of the officers, who are investigating the case, and the doctors who operated on the killed terrorists,” the officer added.
The commission will record the statements of additional chief metropolitan magistrate RV Sawant Waghule and investigating officer Ramesh Mahale, who recorded Kasab’s confession. It will also record statements of the doctors who carried out the post-mortem of the terrorists killed during the attack.
At the home secretary-level talks in March last year, India had agreed to a Pakistani proposal to host a judicial commission of that country.
According to Pakistani authorities, the charges against the seven LeT operatives, including Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, were based on Kasab’s statement and hence the magistrate and the investigating officer’s statements were required to be submitted before the anti-terror court in Pakistan.
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