Mumbai: Six months after he surprised the 26/11 court by confessing to his role in the Mumbai carnage,
Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab today said his guilt plea last
July was made under duress from police.
It is not for the first time that Kasab has made a
U-turn. He had earlier disowned his confession made before a
magistrate about the 26/11 terror conspiracy and his role in
the dastardly strikes.
Three days back, Kasab had claimed that four terrorists
who had struck at Taj hotel were Indians.
Today, Kasab retracted his guilt plea made on July 20
last in which he had talked about attending an LeT camp in
Pakistan, arriving in Mumbai from Karachi by sea route, firing
at people at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and Cama Hospital
and fighting a gun battle with policemen at Girgaum Chowpatty.
"Yes I had said all this earlier in the court but it
was under police pressure," Kasab said in reply to questions
put by judge M L Tahaliyani on evidence adduced by prosecution
against him.
As soon as the judge began asking him questions on the
guilt plea made by him, Kasab complained that his advocate K P
Pawar was not helping him.
However, the judge rebuked him saying he had asked him
to talk to his lawyer yesterday but he did respond.
PTI
First Published: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 00:08