MUMBAI: Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist of the Mumbai attacks, on Tuesday said he had no role in the killing of three senior police officers - ATS chief Hemant Karkare, Additional Police Commissioner Ashok Kamte and encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar.
Kasab’s lawyer Amin Solkar, arguing in the Bombay High Court which is hearing the confirmation of the death sentence handed out to Kasab by the special sessions court, said there were several inconsistencies in the case that has been presented on the suspected killings of the three officers.
Solkar said the evidence cited by the prosecution showed that Karkare was in touch with the police control room at the time of the attacks and he was informed over wireless that terrorists had opened fire in the Cama Hospital. “In the light of the conversation between Karkare and the control room, why did he along with the others take a longer route to reach Cama, instead of taking a shorter route especially when he was informed that the terrorists were hiding in that particular direction,” he asked.
Solkar also said the two terrorists did not have assault rifles like AK-47 as no bullets of AK-47 have been found from the floors of the Cama Hospital. “There were only pistol bullets found at the Cama Hospital which proves that the two terrorists did not have any AK-47s as claimed by the prosecution,” he said adding that the injuries sustained by police officers at Cama, including those suffered by police officer Sadanand Date, were caused due to hand grenades and not as a result of firing.
Solkar had on Monday defended Kasab by saying that he was never a part of the team that had fired at CST and Cama and the pictures that were presented in the sessions court were morphed.