Denying his role in the 26/11 attacks at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab on Friday told the Bombay High Court that police had cooked up a story to falsely implicate him in the crime.
Picking up holes in the prosecution’s case and pointing out contradictions in the accounts of witnesses, defence lawyers Amin Solkar, Farhana Shah and Santosh Deshpande argued that Kasab was not present at CST when the incident happened.
“We do not deny the incident, we also do not dispute that two terrorists had fired at people... all that we say is that Kasab was not at CST at the relevant time,” they told justices Ranjana Desai and R.V. More who are hearing arguments on confirmation of death sentence awarded to Kasab.
Kasab did not appear on the screen put up in the court for the video conference link to enable him hear the proceedings.
Mr. Solkar urged the judges to visit the terror spots personally to get a first hand impression of the topography in order to appreciate the evidence adduced by the prosecution against Kasab.
The judges said they were inclined to visit the spots and would fix up a day next week for this purpose. A decision on this matter would be taken soon, the bench said.
Earlier, senior sessions judge M.L. Tahaliyani, who had awarded death sentence to Kasab, had also visited the terror spots before the trial.
