Pak judicial commission's visit to India to cross-examine 26/11 terror strike witnesses delayed by four days

An eight-member panel of Pakistani lawyers, who were to visit India to cross-examine key witnesses in the Mumbai terror attacks case, has been delayed by four days due to non-availability of flights.

The panel was earlier scheduled to leave for India on September 7, but now it would leave on September 11.

The panel would cross-examine four witnesses - Magistrate R V Sawant Waghule, who recorded the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab; Ramesh Mahale, chief investigating officer of the case; and Ganesh Dhunraj and Chintaman Mohite, the two doctors who carried out the post-mortem of the slain assailants.

Special Prosecutor M Azhar Chaudhry informed the judge that the gazette notification would be submitted in court on Wednesday.

The panel was scheduled to visit India to cross-examine key witnesses in order to take forward the prosecution of seven suspects, including Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi.

This will be the panel's second visit to India.

A report submitted by the panel after its first visit in March 2012 was rejected by an anti-terrorism court as the commission's members were not allowed to cross-examine witnesses, the report added.