Mumbai, July 22: Abbas Kazmi the lawyer of Mumbai attacker Amer Ajmal Kassab has said that “statement of of kassab given in court not a confession to crime”.
“Kasab was merely replying to the questions asked by the judge. This can’t be treated as confession to the crime. The mention of Indian link needed to be probed,” says the defence lawyer.
“Now, judge has to decide on the veracity of the statements by Kasab,” Kazmi said.
He also alleged that his client is being mentally harassed in the prison.
He added, “Judge could either accept the plea to end the trial or pronounce the sentence or reject it.”
Ajmal Kasab has given some additional details to the court on Tuesday regarding the terror attacks.
Special court adjourned the proceedings in Kasab trial till Wednesday as prosecution sought time to file its reply on his confession.
Kasab told the court on Tuesday that he was asked to go to CST, fire indiscriminately at people, take hostages and target police who tried to rescue people.
At noon on Monday, Pakistani gunman Ajmal Amir Kasab started making a full confessional statement about his role in the 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai.
In an admission that was unexpected and lasted four and a half hours, Kasab gave minute details of how the attack was planned with the connivance of dozens of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives in Pakistan and how he and his partner Abu Ismail went on the rampage at CST station and neighbouring Cama Hospital.
He named LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi as the mastermind of the plot who personally saw off the group at Karachi port.
The 21-year-old terrorist — the sole survivor among the 10 who arrived by sea from Pakistan — revealed that the gunmen had to sit tight in a house at Karachi for over 45 days after they had finished their training (TOI had reported on how the terror strike was earlier planned to coincide with the Ramzan period). They were given strict instructions not to even step out of the house or disobey any orders given by their LeT trainers. Kasab said that it was the same house that had been shown in a news report by Geo TV.
–Agencies