26/11 Terror Attack Case: Witness Turns Hostile, Claims Ajmal Kasab Is Alive

Lahore: The hearing of the Mumbai 26/11 attack case held by the Anti-Terrorism Court Islamabad judge at Adiala Jail Rawalpindi yesterday, faced embarrassment when a key witness, Mudassir Lakhvi claimed that Ajmal Kasab, the lone gunman caught alive after the assault and later hanged was alive.

Witness of 2611 terror attacks claims Ajmal Kasab is Alive1

26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack shook the entire country. From November 26-28 Pakistani terrorists struck at 8 important locations in South Mumbai. On 29 November, India’s NSG conducted ‘Operation Black Tornado’ to flush out the attackers. Of the nine terrorists, all were killed except Ajmal Kasab, who was caught alive and jailed in Mumbai. He was hanged on November 21, 2012, four years later in a Pune jail.

Mudassir Lakhvi, the headmaster of a primary school in Faridkot, where Ajmal Kasab studied for three years told the court that he taught Kasab and he is alive,” a court official said.

“The headmaster caused a lot of embarrassment for the prosecution team by claiming that Ajmal Kasab is alive. He was supposed to present the record of the period during which Ajmal Kasab studied in the school and other relevant record but talked otherwise. The prosecution also failed to properly examine him,” the official said, adding, the headmaster belongs to the native town of accused Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and there is a possibility that he testified under his (Lakhvi’s) pressure.

Back in May 2014, the headmaster told the court that Kasab was still alive. The prosecution moved an application to examine him again on the ground that the witness turned ‘hostile’. He was summoned yesterday, but he stuck to his last statement but made no reference to Kasab (hanged in India) and did not mention if he (Kasab) was the same person who studied in the school in Faridkot.

The witness earlier had also claimed that Kasab could be produced in court if needed. The next hearing in the case would be held on December 16.

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