Prosecution told to finish recording evidence by Wednesday.
After the prosecution announced, and missed, deadlines to end the 26/11 terror attack trial, first additional principal judge ML Tahaliyani has set his own deadline — December 9.
On Monday, Tahaliyani told special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam that he wants to finish recording of evidence in the next two days.
“At 4pm on December 9, I want to finish recording evidence,” the judge said. “I don’t mind sitting in court till 6:30pm to get this done. But ensure that you finish it.” Nikam nodded in agreement.
Nikam had announced November 26 as the last date for recording evidence. But defence lawyer Abbas Kazmi’s exit for ‘non-cooperation’ was blamed for the delay in wrapping up the case.
Now, Tahaliyani wants the prosecution to pull up its socks. In the next two days, the prosecution will examine an Airtel officer from Delhi and police and government officials.
The last witness to be examined would be investigating officer Ramesh Mahale.
Apart from this, defence advocate KP Pawar, who had been assisting Kazmi since the opening day of the trial, will cross-examine a few of the medical officers who had examined the injured witnesses; the doctors who conducted the post-mortem of the victims, and some witnesses present during the inquest panchnama.
The court will also decide on two applications, both moved by Kazmi. One application was made to take action against a news channel that had screened the recorded confession of Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab. “I want you to reply tomorrow on how the CD landed with the news channels,” the judge said.
The other application stated that 340 witnesses declared ‘formal’ witnesses by the prosecution are not formal.
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