Need draft appeal against 26/11 acquittals by July 30: prosecutor office pushes cops

The appeal needs to be filed by August 4,90 days after the judgment,and the prosecutor’s office will need at least five working days to process the application before filing the appeal,the letter says. There is,however,a provision for extending the deadline depending on the date when a certified copy of the judgment is procured. In this case,the certified copy arrived 18 days after the judgment was pronounced,sources said.

As reported earlier,the police have sent a draft appeal to the law and judiciary department for approval. The government has appointed Ujjwal Nikam as special public prosecutor to argue for the confirmation of Ajmal Kasab’s death sentence and against the acquittal of Ansari and Sabahuddin.

Kasab’s lawyers,meanwhile,hope to file his appeal against the sentence by the first week of August.