Mumbai: The 26/11 terror trial is not only against Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab, who was caught alive, but also against terror organisation Lashkar-e-Toiba, which masterminded the Mumbai attacks, Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said here on Wednesday.
"Kasab is one of the instruments of the terror outfit.
He and his associates were a small part of LeT which wanted to inflict serious damage to India by attacking its commercial capital," Nikam said in an interview to PTI on the eve of the first anniversary of the terror strikes.
Nikam said the prosecution has already tabled solid evidence of Pakistan's links to the attacks in the form of telephone intercepts of talks between 26/11 terrorists and their Pakistani handlers.
The public prosecutor said if Pakistan wanted to succeed in effectively fighting terror being nurtured on its soil, its investigating agencies could use evidence, adduced in the 26/11 trial court in Mumbai, against the ongoing trial of LeT suspects held there.
Pakistan can match the voice of the handlers with the absconding accused believed to be hiding in that country and also with the LeT suspects facing trial there.
Stating that Kasab had revealed before a Magistrate that he and his associates were trained in a LeT camp in Pakistan by a Major General, Nikam wanted his identity to be disclosed. .
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 15:39