India will hand over statements of "key witnesses" to Pakistan given in the Mumbai anti-terror court during the trial of gunman Ajmal Kasab on Mumbai attacks.
The court has allowed the prosecution's plea for certified copies of the statements and within a day or two they will be forwarded to Pakistan through diplomatic channels for use as evidence in Pakistan, special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said in Mumbai on Sunday. He said the statements of witnesses include the deposition of a magistrate before whom the Mohammad Ajmal Kasab had given a voluntary confession.
The statements will also include deposition of foreign nationals and FBI officials and seizures of some articles recovered from sites such as Hotels Taj and Oberoi and Nariman House, Ujjawal Nikam said.
India had already given to Pakistan confessional statement of Kasab and the charge-sheet filed by the police in the court. After studying all the dossiers given by India so far, the legal experts and the government officials in Pakistan had declared them as insufficient evidence to prove them in the court of law in Pakistan.
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