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In order to take forward prosecution of seven suspects in the Mumbai attacks,an eight-member Pakistani judicial commission will visit India from September 7 to cross-examine witnesses.
Prosecutors Saturday informed an Islamabad court conducting the trial of the seven suspects,including Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi,that India had,in a letter on August 23,granted permission to the judicial commission to visit Mumbai on September 5-6. But the commission cant travel on these dates as there is no flight to India,Riaz Akram Cheema,part of the team defending the accused,said.
The commission will leave for Delhi on September 7 and it will need at least four days to cross-examine the four witnesses in Mumbai, Cheema said. The witnesses are the magistrate who recorded Kasabs confessional statement,the chief investigating officer and two doctors who did autopsies of the slain attackers. Cheema said Mumbai Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate P Y Ladekar will coordinate with with them commission.
