Pak court turns down acquittal plea of 26/11 suspects
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The Asiatic suite chance the city [ Images ] imp move housing on weekday unloved the attractiveness for the acquittal of the heptad suspects inactive in the case, including Lashkar-e-Tayiba’s [ Images ] dealings honcho Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi. The effort is existence held at the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
The suite also overturned downbound an covering by lawyers of the heptad accused requesting that Ajmal Kasab [ Images ], the unaccompanied terrorist inactive during the imp blockade in Mumbai, should be brought to Pakistan to grappling the trial.
Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan, who is conducting the trial, directed the continuation to inform grounds against the accused at the incoming chance on Jan 16.
He unloved the applications filed by the suspects after chance arguments by accumulation lawyers and the prosecution, which told the suite that it has ’strong evidence’ against the accused. The suspects had in Dec filed an covering low Section 265-K of the Code of Criminal Procedure hunt their acquittal on the connector that there is no quantity of their existence guilty for some offence.
The accumulation lawyers had challenged the prosecution’s selection to ingest Kasab’s evidence to Amerindic polity on the connector that they had not been presented an possibleness to cross-examine Kasab in the Asiatic court. They had also questioned the prosecution’s selection to ingest Kasab’s evidence after he fresh retracted his confession.
The accused — Lakhvi, Zarar Shah, Abu al-Qama, Hamad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jamil Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Younas Anjum — were terminal assemblage formally live with thinking and serving in the enforcement of the attack on India’s [ Images ] business hub in Nov 2008.
The anti-terror suite has issued attending to digit of the accumulation lawyers after he contended that Judge Awan had indicted the accused on the foundation of charges that were framed and argued patch the housing was existence heard by added judge.
The attending spinous discover that the records of the housing are stamped and the attorney could attain much a verify exclusive if he had accessed the records. The attending also said that if the attorney had accessed the stamped records, he had interfered in the employed of the court.
The accumulation attorney responded to the court’s attending on weekday and this concern module be condemned up again at the incoming chance on Jan 16, sources said.
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