Defence lawyers demand cross examination in Mumbai attack case.
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Defence lawyers in the Mumbai attack case on Saturday demanded the trial court to ensure permission of cross-examination of Indian witnesses from a judicial commission planning to visit India.
Special Judge Anti-Terrorism Court-I Chaudhry Habibur Rehman, hearing the trial of seven men facing charges of abetting the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack, asked the prosecution to respond to an application, till February 23, filed by advocate Khawaja Haris Ahmed representing Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi - the alleged mastermind of the attack.
In the application, the defence argued that the Federal Investigation Agency’s prosecutor should submit a notification issued by the federal government clearly showing the permission of cross-examination.
The applicants further stated that the orders of chief justice Mumbai High Court forming the judicial commission in India should contain the cross-examination of the four Indian prosecution witnesses.
It was in July last year the trial court in Rawalpindi rejected the statements of the Indians recorded by a judicial commission in March 2012, as the local defence lawyers were not allowed to question the witnesses.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 10th, 2013.
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