26/11: Pak court yet to get records of proceedings

October 22, 2013 06:58 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 08:32 pm IST - ISLAMABAD

The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) hearing the 2008 Mumbai terror attack case is yet to receive the record of proceedings of the Pakistan Judicial Commission's cross examination of witnesses during its visit to India last month.

The Special Public Prosecutor of the case Chaudhury Mohammed Azhar told The Hindu on Tuesday that the matter was postponed to October 24 since the records had not arrived by October 3, which was earlier date of hearing.

He said there were two days left for the matter to come up and the Foreign Office had not received the proceedings, which was to be presented to the ATC judge.

The Commission returned from India on September 26 and had cross examined two witnesses, a doctor and the investigating officer of the terror attacks case in the court of an additional chief metropolitan magistrate. Mr. Azhar had said the visit was very cordial and even though the prosecution had a limited scope, it was able to re-examine all the evidence “within the given circumstances.”

Last year the report of the judicial commission was rejected since it couldn’t cross examine some witnesses or meet the two doctors, who had conducted the post-mortems of the nine dead terrorists.

0 / 0
Sign in to unlock member-only benefits!
  • Access 10 free stories every month
  • Save stories to read later
  • Access to comment on every story
  • Sign-up/manage your newsletter subscriptions with a single click
  • Get notified by email for early access to discounts & offers on our products
Sign in

Comments

Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.

We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.