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The much-awaited Pakistan judicial commission will arrive here tomorrow to record the statement of four people including the magistrate who had recorded the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab,the lone surviving member of LeT,which was behind the 26/11 attacks.
After a delay of nearly six months,the eight-member Commission,finally arrived in New Delhi today.
According to official sources,the team will arrive here tomorrow evening and record the statements on March 16 and 17.
Ahead of their arrival,Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of the Esplanade court in south Mumbai issued summons to magistrate R V Sawant Waghule,who had recorded Kasab’s confession,and crime branch officer Ramesh Mahale,who was the investigating officer in the November 26,2008 terror strike by Lashker-e-Taiba terrorists in Mumbai in which over 160 people were killed.
Two doctors from state-run J J Hospital and civic-run Nair hospital have also been asked to appear in court to record their statements. They had conducted autopsies on the nine killed terrorists and victims of the terror strike which lasted for nearly 72 hours.
While Waghule and Mahale have been summoned on March 16,statements of the doctors will be recorded on March 17.
The commission comprises defence lawyers Khwaja Haris,Riya Akram Choudhary,Fakhar Haayat,Raja Ehassan Ulhakhan and Isaam Bin Haris,special public prosecutors Choudhary Mohammed Azhar and Choudhary Ali and court official Azad Khan.
The statements of the four witnesses will be used as evidence before an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan,which is conducting trial against LeT’s Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects.
