Pakistan judicial commission meets Ujjwal Nikam, the Mumbai terror attack prosecutor

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: A Pakistani judicial commission today held a close-door meeting with special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack in which LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects face charges in a Pakistani court.

Highly placed sources said Nikam, who held a three-hour long meeting with the eight-member Pakistani judicial Commission in Delhi, later met Home Minister P Chidambram, Union Home Secretary R K Singh and apprised them about his discussions.

The Pakistani team flew to Mumbai this afternoon by an Air India flight amid tight security and will record the statements of four witnesses from tomorrow.

When contacted, Nikam refused to divulge details of the meeting but said "the evidence of these witnesses would help Pakistan nail the perpetrators of the 26/11 terror attack".

The Pakistani Commission will record the statements of the metropolitan magistrate who took the confessional statement of the lone surviving terrorist Mohd Ajmal Amir Kasab, and also of Chief Investigating Officer in the case.

The commission headed by special prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali who came from Lahore to Delhi yesterday will also record the evidence of two doctors involved in carrying out the autopsy of the nine killed terrorists in the 2008 attack in which 166 people were killed.

The Pakistani Commission will tomorrow start recording the evidence of Metropolitan Magistrate R V Sawant Waghule.

The statements of Chief Investigating Officer Ramesh Mahale will also be recorded by them in addition to the two doctors, Shailesh Mohit and Ganesh Nitukar, who had conducted the autopsy of the slain terrorists.

Nikam reminded the Pakistani prosecuting agency that governments of both countries agreed to record the statements of only four prosecution witnesses, the sources said.