Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday allowed
Centre time till January 15 to file its reply to a petition
seeking a direction to NIA to probe allegations by a 26/11
witness that she had seen Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab and two
others emerging from Nariman House two days before the attack.
Counsel for the government sought time to reply to the
allegations contained in an affidavit filed by witness Anamika
Gupta along with the petition. Gupta was herself injured in
the firing by terrorists at Leopold Cafe.
The petition, filed by former journalist Ketan Tirodkar,
arrested four years ago under the stringent MCOCA for his
alleged links with the underworld, also sought probe into the
alleged police inaction and lack of co-ordination on the night
of November 26 last year.
The petition alleged that police inaction led to the
death of several policemen including three senior officers.
Tirodkar's petition sought that National Investigation
Agency (NIA) should probe logbooks of wireless conversations
and documents related to the 26/11 attack, which it said would
expose lack of co-ordination by the senior officers.
The petition alleged that the police control room was
indifferent to repeated requests of reinforcement by ACP
Sadanand Date, whose squad was fighting terrorists at Cama
Hospital. If reinforcements had reached, slain officers Hemant
Karkare, Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar could have been saved,
it said.
-PTI
First Published: Monday, December 14, 2009, 22:04