Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice RV More allowed the plea of government counsel Ujjwal Nikam to play the CDs in the post lunch session tomorrow.
CCTV footages showing Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab and his slain accomplice Abu Ismail committing terror acts at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (SCT) and surrounding areas will be screened in the Bombay high court tomorrow.
Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice RV More allowed the plea of government counsel Ujjwal Nikam to play the CDs in the post lunch session tomorrow.
Nikam told the court that the CCTV footages provide clinching evidence of Kasab and his partner creating terror in important public places by killing people mercilessly.
The CCTV cameras installed at the CST and outside the Times of India building (opposite CST) had captured Kasab and Ismail moving around with guns and firing at people.
At CST, Kasab and Ismael had opened fire at people who were waiting in the main hall for long distance trains on November 26, 2008, killing 52 and injuring 108.
The duo came out from the rear entrance of CST and got down from an over bridge near the Times of India building. Their images were captured in CCTV camera installed there. The film shows both of them moving around with guns.
Kasab had also fired shots at a photojournalist who was clicking photographs of the two terrorists from the second floor of the Times of India building. The photojournalist had ducked in time and escaped unhurt.
Both CCTV footages were screened in the trial court earlier. These will again be shown in the high court which is hearing confirmation of death sentence awarded to Kasab.
Nikam told the court that the AK-47 rifle, recovered from the Skoda car in which Kasab and his partner Abu Ismael were trying to escape after the 26/11 terror attacks, belonged to slain police officer Ashok Kamate.
Nikam said after killing Kamate and two other police officers, Kasab and Ismail took away the AK-47 rifle from Kamate. The duo then stole the Skoda car at gun point and sped towards Girgaum Chowpatty where they were intercepted by police.
Kasab had also told police in his confession that they had taken away Kamate's AK-47 rifle in the Skoda car. Besides, a police report established that the butt number of Kamate's rifle matched with the gun seized by police from the car, Nikam said.
However, Kasab had misled the trial court by saying he was not aware how Kamate's rifle was found in the car. Kasab knew this but he could not give a satisfactory explanation how Kamate's rifle was found from the car in which he were trying to escape, Nikam said in his arguments to justify the death penalty given to Kasab.
Nikam cited a Supreme Court judgment in the Jessica Lal murder case, saying the accused Manu Sharma had given a false declaration that he could not account for the fire arm found in his possession. The apex court had drawn adverse inference against Sharma. Similarly, the high court should also draw adverse inference against Kasab, Nikam argued.
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