Ajmal was never our student: Hyd college principal

The principal of a Hyderabad college was examined on Tuesday in the 26/11 attacks case trial.

The police had recovered seven fake identity cards of the college from the terrorists, including Mohammed Ajmal Amir, alias Kasab, who attacked the city.

G Radhakrishnan, principal of Arunodaya Degree College at Hyderabad, examined the ID cards and confirmed that they were fake since they did not bear the signature of the principal.

Radhakrishnan said Ajmal was never a student of his college. He showed the court the students’ admission registers maintained by the college since 2003. The registers did no have the name of any of the attackers.

The prosecution also examined four other witnesses, among them Kedar Joshi, assistant record officer of Nair Hospital, and Vinayak Joshi, medical record officer of the hospital. The two told the court that when Kasab was admitted to the hospital with gunshot wounds on 26/11 night after he was arrested by the police, they had initially recorded his age as 25 years in his hospital case papers. But, after directions from their seniors, they had changed it to 21 years.

The third witness, Ramesh Manipuri, said he was present when the police had sealed the pistols of police officers Bhaskar Kadam and Hemant Bavdhankar before sending them to the forensic laboratory. Baccha Yadav, another witness, said he was present when the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) had defused the hand-grenade seized from the Skoda car at Chowpatty.